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'Arra, for what? said I; 'here are no weapons that a gentleman can use, and you would not be such a negro as to box like an English carman. After he had puzzled himself for some time, he proposed that we should retire into a corner, and funk one another with brimstone, till one of us should give out.
"Arra burra arra, arra, arra!" sung out the crowd. "Arra, arra, arra!" repeated our arrieros, goading the unfortunate animals with their sticks "Arra, sish, sish!" It is hopeless to imitate the sounds emitted by our drivers. Up we shot like pellets from popguns, through the narrow rock-strewn gorges which are called roads. Up, up, up the animals scrambled.
Arra, salvation to me, but the prospect's a born beauty, so it is, and will be rayalized yet, plaise God." "Too much wealth, sir, is an enemy to religion." "Well, Pettier, that may be so occasionally; but here's your health, and in the meantime, I didn't care that some of us had a little more of it.
I would go any length to sarve Charley Hanlon, but I care nothin' for him beyond an acquaintance, although I did like him a little, or I thought I did." "Poor Charley!" exclaimed Nelly, "he'll break his heart. Arra what'll he do for a piece o' black crape to get into murnin'? eh ha! ha! ha!"
'Arra, what are ye sthrivin' to say, says Bill; says he, 'if ye don't hould your tongue, says he, 'wid your parly voo; says he, 'it's what I'll put my thumb on your windpipe, says he, 'an' Billy Malowney never wint back iv his word yet, says he.
"Arra, no! how could I?" "Kate M'Bride, so Ginty tells me; she's livin' with her." "And why didn't she call to see you?" asked his wife. "And yet God knows it's no great loss; but if ever woman was cursed wid a step-daughter, I was wid her." "Don't you know very well that we never spoke since her runaway match with M'Bride.
The younger of the two girls sprang to her feet with the elasticity and agility of a deer. "O, beetha, Barney," she exclaimed, "but that will be the fun! And the misthress's son is home? Arra, what is he like, Barney? Is he as handsome as Masther Charles?" "I hope he's as good," said her mother. "As good, Bridget? "O, mother," said Grace, "won't we all go?"
"Arra' now, captain, you may as well cook and eat us at once, for sorrow a dollar have ye left us, and all the crucifixes, and candlesticks, and beautiful images, which we might have pledged for the money, stowed away in your hold!" exclaimed the fat friar, betraying his Hibernian origin, and that he had understood every word which had been spoken.
The very few words from Phoenician roots which occur in it, such as -arrabo- or -arra- and perhaps also -murra-, -nardus-, and the like, are plainly borrowed proximately from the Greek, which has a considerable number of such words of Oriental extraction as indications of its primitive intercourse with the Aramaeans.
"Oh!" observed the father, with a smile, "divil a one o' you girls, Ellen, ever thinks much of father or mother when you have made up your minds to run away wid your buchaleens sorra a taste." "Arra, Brian, will you have sinse," said his wife; "why wouldn't they think o' them?"
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