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He was nearly six feet high, gallantly formed to keep the rounds at Smithfield, or maintain the ring at a wrestling match; and although he might have been overmatched, perhaps, among the regular professors of the Fancy, yet, as a yokel or rustic, or a chance customer, he was able to give a bellyful to any amateur of the pugilistic art.
'Why! what on earth did they let the man hang for? asked Mary. 'To give him a good bellyful of it: they thought it would cure him of tryin' to hang himself again. 'Well, that's the coolest thing I ever heard of, said Mary. 'That's jist what the magistrate said, Mrs Wilson, said Mrs Spicer.
The shepherdess, who saw her ass scour off, told Roger that it was her cattle, and desired he might be kindly used, or else she would not stir her foot over the threshold. Friend Roger no sooner knew this but he ordered him to be fetched in, and that my master's horses should rather chop straw for a week together than my mistress's beast should want his bellyful of corn.
The regiment nearest to me wheeled to the left, and trotted obliquely across the road. Its direction made its purpose clear. It was feeling its way across our front to our flank on the west of the village. I rode back at once to report. "Good lad!" said the Colonel, offering me his snuff-box. "It's just what we want 'em to do. Go where there's a bellyful for you! Fine soldiering that!
"It's better than a boat, anyway," said Hadden. "I've had my bellyful of boat." "What kills me is that specie!" the captain broke out. "Think of all that riches four thousand in gold, bad silver, and short bills all found money too! and no more use than that much dung!" "I'll tell you one thing," said Tommy. "I don't like it being in the boat I don't care to have it so far away."
Gundry cared little what any body said concerning his honor, or courage, or such like; but the thought of a whisper against his hospitality would rouse him. "Find him, Firm, find him," he said, in his deep sad voice, as he sat down on the antlered stump and gazed at the fire gloomily. "And when he is found, call a public postmortem, and prove that we gave him his bellyful."
So fare ye all as well as ye may in the dun; but I will go forth into the world with my pebble in my pocket." There was a man in the islands who fished for his bare bellyful, and took his life in his hands to go forth upon the sea between four planks. But though he had much ado, he was merry of heart; and the gulls heard him laugh when the spray met him.
The soldiers roared with joy. "What fine tripe, General; I swear I haven't tasted the like of it in all my life," Blondie said, as he began to reminisce about "El Monico" at Chihuahua. "You really like it, Blondie?" responded Demetrio. "Go ahead, call for more, eat your bellyful." "It's just the way I like it," Anastasio chimed in. "Yes, I like good food!
He knows nothing of ablative, conjunctive, substantive, or grammar, no more than his lackey, or a fishwife of the Petit Pont; and yet these will give you a bellyful of talk, if you will hear them, and peradventure shall trip as little in their language as the best masters of art in France.
Suddenly the Lark broke away from his comrades and ran forward. Conniston, ever watchful, ever suspicious, covered him with his rifle. But the Lark was grinning, and as he came closer he lifted his two hands. "I'm with you!" he shouted. "I got a bellyful of this here racket. An'," with a glance over his shoulder, "I got a bellyful of that rotgut, too. Besides, it's all gone.
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