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"I'm a-going to kill that lubber you've got for mate anyhow, and it might as well be done at once as any other time. We'll settle the matter about who's skipper afterward." "I hears ye well enough, Cap'n Andrews," said Trunnell; "but I ain't eggzactly clear in my mind as to how ye have authority aboard.
'The counsel to the Lord Ordinary, continued Peter, once set a-going, like the peal of an alarm clock, 'the Ordinary to the Inner House, the President to the Bench. It is just like the rope to the man, the man to the ox, the ox to the water, the water to the fire' 'Hush, for Heaven's sake, Mr.
But this time you've said it jest one time too many. You're the meanest, treacherousest hound in this country." By this time Jim was gone for the raft. I was just a-biling with curiosity; and I says to myself, Tom Sawyer wouldn't back out now, and so I won't either; I'm a-going to see what's going on here.
The Old Owl shook out a tuft or two of fluff, and set her eyes a-going and began: "The Brownies, or, as they are sometimes called, the Small Folk, the Little People, or the Good People, are a race of tiny beings who domesticate themselves in a house of which some grown-up human being pays the rent and taxes.
That's all about it, you see; it's a case of incompatible temperaments; there's no ill-feelin', not as between man and man, And that's what I say, too. 'Now, Dick, said Mrs. Mutimer, 'before you begin your sermon, who's a-going to fetch my beer? 'Right, Mrs. Mutimer! cried Daniel, slapping his leg. 'That's what I call coming from theory to practice.
All those years he spent in the process of just a-going to begin Pope Julius' tomb, and again, all those blank spaces for his pictures and bare pedestals for his statues in the Baptistery of San Lorenzo ought we to regret them quite so passionately as we do? His patrons were apt to think him an impossible person to deal with.
"You wasn't a-watchin' of him. I told him what I thought about it and what we meant to do. Tell you what, my boy, if you're to meet many redskins you've got to learn sign language. It beats words all holler." "Well, I did see his hands and yours a-going." "Yes, and his face and mine too, and elbows and legs. It's as easy as fallin' off a log when you once get the hang of it."
Bascroft was not held in very great estimation by the ladies generally, and they turned their backs upon him. "We are a-going out to see the ghost, if you must know, Bascroft," said Susan Peckaby, who made one of the volunteers. Bascroft stared. "What a set of idiots you must be!" grunted he. "Mr. Jan says as Dan Duff see nothing but a white cow; he telled me so hisself.
As soon as she was out of sight, the girls began to move cautiously from their hiding places. But suddenly they all stood perfectly still, arrested by the unbelievable words they now heard, which Frieda literally shouted at kind Mrs. Johnson. "You ain't a-going to put me in the attic!" Her bag fell to the floor with a bang. "I didn't come here to be no servant girl!
A titter ran round that part of the circle where the young ladies sat Sir Ulick was a favourite, and they rejoiced when he came among them; because, as they observed, "he always said something pleasant, or set something pleasant a-going." "Lady O'Shane, for mercy's sake let us have no more of these permanent circle sittings at Castle Hermitage, my dear!"
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