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"A yellow-faced cripple, by dash! a sick woman, with mahogany eyes; one of your blanked spiritual creatures with no flesh on her bones." On the other hand, however, she enjoyed later much complimentary disparagement from her own sex. Miss Celestina Howard, second leader in the ballet at the Varieties, had, with great alliterative directness, in after-years, denominated her as an "aquiline asp."
There was no mistaking the sincerity and honesty of Carroll's manner. "Any further questions to ask, gentlemen?" "How long did you stop at Mr. Macgregor's camp when you was passing by?" asked Ike. "Don't be so blanked smart, Ike!" said Carroll, in savage scorn. "I'm telling you that I didn't stop a fut. We saw their camp and their ponies and we went sthraight past."
He also found a note addressed to Bill Rogers, which he read, and again ejaculated, "I'll be blanked!" adding to it, however, the comment, "A square boarding master." Then he punched and felt of the bag's contents, and smiled. Donning the guernsey and jacket, he went on deck just in time to meet a big, bearded man who was hurrying to the forecastle door.
A little of it is all right the boys understand that; but have you thought what it means to you and me if these blanked reformers get in, if a feller like Austen Vane is nominated?" That cold, hard glitter which we have seen was in Mr. Bascom's eyes. "You fellers have got the colic," was the remark of the arch-rebel. "Do you think old Hilary doesn't know what he's about?"
I should have thought that one might have expected one's partner at a club like this to exercise elementary But Mr Bickersdyke had gone. He had melted silently away like the driven snow. Psmith took his place at the table. 'A somewhat nervous excitable man, Mr Bickersdyke, I should say, he observed. 'A somewhat dashed, blanked idiot, emended the bank-manager's late partner.
This was a stranger's voice, and again Robbie squirmed, for he rather prided himself also on his ability to pay his way. "No good!" said another emphatic voice. "A blanked lot o' psalm-singing snipes." "Order, order!" cried the chairman.
Victor blanked the screen, leaned back in his chair and began laughing. In a moment, the screen buzzed again. When he snapped it on, his screen-girl said: "Mr. Henry Stenson's on, Mr. Grego." "Well, put him on." He caught himself just before adding that it would be a welcome change to talk to somebody with sense.
We distinctly heard the Confederate cavalrymen crying, 'Stop, you blankety blanked Yankees! But we felt that our business in Chattanooga, demanded immediate attention, and we had no time to spare them. "Passing a certain place, I saw General Thomas standing upon the brow of Snodgrass Hill, or Horseshoe Ridge, field glass in hand, intently watching the movements of the troops.
Back he goes and finds it has a kind of loaded feelin’. So my friend investigates—and I be blanked if there wasn’t a foot and leg inside of it." Miss Carmichael had always exercised a super-feminine self-restraint in the case of casual mice, and it served her in the present instance.
How many acres had you in the place you were on?" "Acres be d d!" Billy would scornfully reply; "hear him talking about acres! D'ye think we were blanked cockatoo selectors! Out there we reckon country by the hundred miles. You orter say, 'How many thousand miles of country? and then I'd understand you."
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