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"It's getting very dark and fierce," she chided, "and all the housework must be done." So he built a fire, then fetched a bucket of water from a rill that trickled down among the rocks near by. He made as if to prepare their meal, but she would have none of it. "Bigs should never cook," she declared.
It it's only I just wonder sometimes what God had in mind, anyways making our kind. Where do we belong " "Aw, you're a great Heavy, Teenie and it's the Bigs and the Littles got the cinch in this business. Looka the poor Siamese. How'd you like to be hitched up thataway all day. Looka Ossi. How'd you like to let 'em stick pins in you all for their ten cents' worth. Looka poor old Jas.
"Ze Emberor himself would not have speak to me so! I come here as a favor her ladyshib do not offer me one pfenning, ach! ze music is not for such beoble! I shall brefer to blay to bigs! Zere is no art in zis country! And he began to make his way out of the room, when he was overtaken by Beau Lovelace, who had followed him in haste. "Where are you off to, Hermann?" he asked good-naturedly.
Damon, in his enthusiasm, banged his fist down on the table with such force that he knocked some books to the floor. Koku, the giant, who was in the hall, opened the door and in his imperfect English asked: "Master Tom knock for him bigs man?" "No," answered Tom with a smile, "I didn't knock or call you, Koku. Some books fell, that is all."
"She's worth her weight in gold." "Lemme double it!" "Like fun I will. A spendthrift like you!" "Which way you going?" "We always go home by the beach. Shapiro made it a rule that the Bigs and Littles can't ever show themselves on Ocean Avenue." "Come on, you little flea; I'll ride you up the beach on my shoulder." "Oh, Mr. Jastrow, you you going to walk home with me and Baron?"
If it's a pint of vhisky, vhy, all right; but if it's honly a pint of beer vhen there's seven hon'able ladies an' gents " "I bigs the Chair's pardon," interrupted Mr. O'Fake, "but the Chair labors under a slight misaper ahem!" Mr. O'Fake finished the word with a cough. It was a cough which he always kept ready for use in that way whenever needed. "The gintleman manes he objects to the persadin's."
Honour and conscience truly! braw words for a Hielant schore, that bigs his bield wi' other folks' gear!" "Be composed, your sweet Grace, and dinna be so fashed," cried a silver-tongued madam, the which my grandfather afterwards found, as I shall have to rehearse, was his concubine, the Mrs Kilspinnie. "What does he say?" "Say?
He is a weak Horse that may not bear the Saddle. He that borrows and bigs; makes feasts and thigs; drinks and is not dry; these three are not thrifty. He is a proud Tod that will not scrape his own Hole. He is wise, when he is well can had him sa. He is poor that God Hates. He is wise, that is ware in time. He is wise who can make a friend of a foe. Hair, and hair, makes the Carles head bare.
The proverb there is, "The grandsire digs, the father bigs, the son thigs," that is, the grandfather worked hard and made a fortune, the father built a fine house, and the son, "an unthrifty son of Linne," when land and goods were gone and spent, took to thieving.
I could not keep it back, though I had said to myself Bob Chowne was a weak coward, and, dropping on the thwart, I let my face go down in my hands, and tried to keep back my emotion. "Ah, you bigs boys, you speak me," I heard the French skipper say. "How you come from? Come, call yourself." "Uggleston, of the Gap," said Bigley, as boldly as he could. "Blown off shore, sir, in the squall." "Aha!
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