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He says, 'I'd like to have a match with you. So I tips the office to Sammy, and blanked if he didn't go and knock in a slice of bloomin' flint a little way between the shoe and the near fore foot. I says very timid, 'Well, sir, I don't mind having a try just for a bit of sport, if you'll lay £30 to £20. He says, 'Done with you, and we staked.
Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold repugnance at sight of pain written in her pretty face. "They're weak as water, if you want to know," came the reply from one of the men. "Plum tuckered out, that's what's the matter. They need a rest." "Rest be blanked," said Hal, with his beardless lips; and Mercedes said, "Oh!" in pain and sorrow at the oath.
"It looks as though you did, Ed," Frank replied. "I'm really sorry." They got worse hell from a little doctor from Italy, whose name was Padetti. They were asked a lot of questions. They fibbed some, but not entirely. "We sort of blanked out, Doctor," Nance told him. "I suppose we spent most of our time in the desert, living in our Archers.
"'Dude'? What do you mean, 'dude'? He's no dude!" "Oh, he's so stuck on himself that he gives me the wearisome willies. Look here, other folks has been to the war. He needn't carry his chest like a blanked bay window." "Look here, Gilby, just quit swearing in this room." The cold blue eyes bored into Gilby's hot face. "I beg pardon, sir.
But all to no avail. They would not go. "Why, Skipper," spoke up Bony Sawyer, "it's sure death for any man as goes below there. It's easier, an' safer, to starve him out." "Starve nothin'," shrieked Skipper Simms. "Do you reckon I'm a-goin' to sit quiet here for a week an' let any blanked wharf rat own that there fo'c's'le just because I got a lot o' white-livered cowards aboard? No sir!
Muir was much scandalized and looked anxiously at her husband, wishing him to take her out. But help came from an unexpected quarter, and Hi suddenly called out: "Here you, Bill, shut your blanked jaw, and you, Bruce, give the man a chance to work off his music." "That's so! Fair play! Go on!" were the cries that came in response to Hi's appeal.
There was no hymn, but in a simple, short prayer the service was closed, and before the congregation had recovered from their amazement Shock had passed out through the back door. "Well, I'll be blanked!" said Ike, with a gasp. "Quit that, Ike," said The Kid sharply. "Look here I am going to quit swearing right now, so help me." "All right, boss, I'm with you; put it there."
"You, Gilby, you have some sense what is the trouble? You want more wages, I suppose?" "I guess so," said Gilby, a long, lean man, Canadian born, of about thirty, "but it ain't the wages that's eatin' me so much." "What then?" "It's that blank foreman." "Foreman?" "That's right, sir." "Too blanked smart!" "Buttin' in like a blank billy goat!"
Hi didn't want no blanked mourners foolin' round that corp till it was properly planted; after that they might git in their work." But the X L driver could not accept this view, and at the first opportunity slipped past Hi and his pall-bearers and took the place next the sleigh that carried the coffin.
I had some there the other night." He watched carefully but there was no sign of suspicion; the leader did not even seem interested. Hanlon blanked the screen, got the list and money from Zeller, and walked out. The Bacchus did not stock Cola, so he took a ground-cab to the Golden Web. Pretending half-drunkenness, he walked in and ordered the case of drink from his colleague.
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