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By golly, one more whimper out of you and if I don't make you black-and-blue, birthday or no birthday! Dish up, Sarah, quick, or I'll give him something to cry about." The five pink candles had been lighted, burning pointedly and with slender little smoke wisps. Regarding them owlishly, the tears dried on Leon's face, his little tongue licking up at them.
Look, Pascualo, look!" Rosario rolled up her sleeve, and showed on the sallow skin that covered the bones and tendons of her fore-arm, the black-and-blue marks where a heavy hand had squeezed it as in a vise. "And that's only one. I can show you others almost anywhere on my body! And they come from having complained about his bad behavior with Dolores!
By Saturday night the ship was as fine as a "brand new jumping-jack before the baby sucked the paint off." Some of the men still suffered from black-and-blue spots, which, however, a little turpentine liniment would have banished. Rumors were rife that we would be bound for New York shortly, but few believed them; the circulators themselves certainly did not, of that we felt sure.
That is, if a shambling kind of double limp can be described as a "run for it." "Here it is: I've found my pocket-book," said Annie, as her enemy made the best of his way off. "He did not hurt you?" "No: he only scared me, except that I suppose my arm will be black-and-blue where he caught hold of it. Thank you ever so much, Dabney: you're a brave boy. Why, he's almost twice your size."
He would come in at all hours and either throw ink around or make a lot of noise. One night he built a fire in the grate and started to throw pistol cartridges into the flames. These would explode, and I was twice hit by the bullets, which left a black-and-blue mark. Another night he came in and got from some part of the building a lot of stationery with 'Confederate States' printed at the head.
My boat slipped swiftly along under the thick-shadowing trees, and rounding a sharp bend, brought me to the open pond, to the sky, and to a sight that explained my disquietude. The west, half-way to the zenith, was green the black-and-blue green of bruised flesh. Out of it shot a fork of lightning, and behind it rumbled muffled thunder. There was no time to descend the pond.
"Why, God bless your soul, man!" interrupted the colonel; "don't you know I'm religious? I'm with you right along, as to first principles, that is; but, you see, I can't quite go the Methodist doctrine. I was raised a Presbyterian, you know, regular black-and-blue Calvinist, and what a fellow takes in with his mother's milk sticks by him.
He found that he was bruised where he had strapped himself in. The places where each strap had held his heavy body against the ship's vibrations were deeply black-and-blue. The Chief said thickly: "Joe, somehow I don't think this is going to work. When do we hit again?" "Three hours plus or minus something," said Joe, dry-throated. "We'll hear from the ground."
Now and then, to be sure, the vicious child of some chieftain would amuse itself by pricking Kitty's tender skin with a thorn, and hearing her scream in consequence; or, having seen the black-and-blue marks upon her delicate arms, caused by the rough handling of her captors, they would pinch her flesh and watch for the change of color with intense interest.
And it was little Eliza herself, Simon's champion and dictator, faithful, plucky little Eliza, by whom the evil entered in. She came, one hot July day, and planted herself quite unconcernedly beside the professor, and he, looking down into the funny little round face, beheld a great black-and-blue bump on the forehead. The sight grieved him to the soul, even before he knew its tragic meaning.
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