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The Portugee has bate me." Whack came another dory alongside, and more fish shot into the pen. "Two hundred and three. Let's look at the passenger!" The speaker was even larger than the Galway man, and his face was made curious by a purple cut running slant-ways from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth.
Nevertheless, she did fall asleep and did not awaken till disturbed by some noise. The color of the western sky told her that the afternoon was far spent. She had slept hours. Someone was knocking. She got up and drew aside the blanket. Bate Wood was standing near the door. "Now, miss, I've supper ready," he said, "an' I was reckonin' you'd like me to fetch yours."
The 'fighting parson, Bate, afterwards Sir Henry Bate Dudley, then a part proprietor of the 'Morning Post, quarrelled with a fellow proprietor, Joseph Richardson, put a bullet into his adversary's shoulder and set up a rival paper, the 'Morning Herald. A vacancy was thus created in the 'Morning Post, and Richardson gave the place to Stephen, with a salary of two guineas a week.
Portrait of the Pretended Countess Piccolomini Quarrel and Duel Esther and Her Father, M. D'O. Esther Still Taken with the Cabala Piccolomini Forges a Bill of Exchange: Results I Am Fleeced, and in Danger of Being Assassinated Debauch with the Two Paduan Girls I Reveal A Great Secret To Esther I Bate the Rascally St.
They can't bide the push of us! You'll bate mun off the face of the seas, and be masters of the round world, and all that therein is. And then, I'll just turn my old face to the wall, and depart in peace, according to his word. "Deary me, now, while I've been telling with you, here've this little maid been and ate up all my sugar!"
"It was an unlucky day to him," says Phaddy, "that he went to challenge me, at all at all; for I was the only man that ever bate him, and he wasn't able to hould up his head in the parish for many a day afther."
I asked him how it happened that he left all his friends in Ireland and came to this country alone. From his reply I learned that his mother died when he was only ten years old, and, also, that his father soon after married a second wife, who, to use Terry's own words, "bate him unmercifully."
"You bate hur, an' A'll bate you!" interposed Rory, turning to bay on the most salient of the three or four pleas which had power to rouse the Old Adam in his unassertive nature. "Well, A 'm sure A was bate ay, an' soun'ly bate when A was lek hur; an' iv A did n't desarve it then, A desarved it other times, when A did n't git it."
Lave us go over an' bate him on th' eye. An' they do it. Now if ye have fightin' blood in ye'er veins ye hastily gulp down yeer dhrink an' hand ye'er assailant wan that does him no kind iv good, an' th' first thing ye know ye're in th thick iv it an' its scrap, scrap, scrap till th' undhertaker calls f'r to measure ye.
Go ahead, Bate," responded Kells. "Mebbe it ain't any recommendation fer said Jim Cleve," replied Wood. "Though it did sorta warm me to him.... Boss, of course, you recollect thet little Brander girl over at Bear Lake village. She's old Brander's girl worked in his store there. I've seen you talk sweet to her myself.
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