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None of the family couldn't before THEY died. I can't; and here you're a-swelling yourself up like this. I ain't the man to stand it you hear? Say, lemme hear you read." I took up a book and begun something about General Washington and the wars. When I'd read about a half a minute, he fetched the book a whack with his hand and knocked it across the house. He says: "It's so. You can do it.
A regular ghosty one. Up to the house where I'm livin' now." "What's that? Don't swell so with pride, aristocrat!" "Who's a-swelling? If you don't want it, never mind. I ain't suffering to give it away. Don't know as Miss Lucy'd like it, any way."
The moon come a-swelling up out of the ground, now, powerful big and round and bright, behind a comb of trees, like a face looking through prison bars, and the black shadders and white places begun to creep around, and it was miserable quiet and still and night-breezy and graveyardy and scary. All of a sudden Tom whispers: "Look! what's that?" "Don't!" I says.
The boat was a moving earthquake by this time: "How is she now?" "A hundred and ninety-six and still a-swelling! water, below the middle gauge-cocks! carrying every pound she can stand! nigger roosting on the safety-valve!" "Good! How's your draft?" "Bully! Every time a nigger heaves a stick of wood into the furnace he goes out the chimney, with it!"
None of the family couldn't before THEY died. I can't; and here you're a-swelling yourself up like this. I ain't the man to stand it you hear? Say, lemme hear you read." I took up a book and begun something about General Washington and the wars. When I'd read about a half a minute, he fetched the book a whack with his hand and knocked it across the house. He says: "It's so. You can do it.
It means standing on your quarter-deck and making your ship take its way over three thousand miles of ocean straight as a bird flies to its nest; it means holding her in that ar way with the waves a-swelling mountain high and the wind a-bellowing in your rigging, and a rocky shore with all its teeth set to grind her in your lee; it means knowing how to look to the sun and the stars when they're shining, and how to steer without, them when the night is too black to see.
The boat was a moving earthquake by this time: "How is she now?" "A hundred and ninety-six and still a-swelling! water, below the middle gauge-cocks! carrying every pound she can stand! nigger roosting on the safety-valve!" "Good! How's your draft?" "Bully! Every time a nigger heaves a stick of wood into the furnace he goes out the chimney, with it!"
"A-swelling the receipt of customs by the consumption of Congo! That won't do, Julia; it won't, indeed. Ask Dusty. If you want to beat the enemy, you must knock up the revenue. How d'ye do, widow?" "The same to you, Dandy Mick. We is deploring the evils of the times here in a neighbourly way." "Oh, the times will soon mend," said the Dandy gaily.
"I did, mate, but I'm getting worse," came back faintly, "I'm a-swelling up and fitting tighter every moment. Can't yer get me out?" "Here, ketch hold of one o' his legs, Barney," growled Bob, hurriedly. "We must have him out somehow. Got him?" "There arn't no room, messmate." "Lie up close to me and reach in together. Head in too."
I feel the Mint a-jingling in me. I'm a-swelling out into the Bank of England! Such," reflectively observes his proprietor, "is the influence of music on a poetic mind!" Adding, however, immediately afterwards, "Not that he was partial to any other music but a barrel-organ; on the contrairy, hated it."
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