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That is, I should say, after the first minute." "Just what I say," he replied. "Another thing don't it strike you as bein' bloomin' queer about Tom nearly comin' down by ther run, an' then this?" I nodded. "It would have been all hup with Tom, if it hadn't been for ther gasket." He paused. After a moment, he went on again. "That was honly three or four nights ago!" "Well," said Plummer.
"That's wot I calls rotten luck," he soliloquized. "I might jest as well of 'ad the whole bloomin' wad." When Jane Clayton climbed to the deck of the Kincaid she found the ship apparently deserted. There was no sign of those she sought nor of any other aboard, and so she went about her search for her husband and the child she hoped against hope to find there without interruption.
One minute a fine rose buds an' blooms, an' then a tulip, an' next a chrys chrys " " anthemum," said Dorothy, helping him. "That's it; and next a dahlia, an' then a daffydil, an' on all through the range o' posies. Jus' as soon as one fades away, another comes, of a different sort, an' the perfume from 'em is mighty snifty, an' they keeps bloomin' night and day, year in an' year out."
When you come to slaughter You'll do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it. Then Bones cursed the rum and took another nip. So did the rest of us. There was a considerable bombardment going on all the forenoon, but few shells came anywhere near us.
"What makes you imagine I am guilty?" "Never mind that now." "Why, I can prove an alibi." "Then you'll have to prove it, and a bloody strong one too, before I let you go. I've seen you sneaking around before. That's a wig you are wearing. Bart, bind him, and do it bloomin' tight, too." "I'll do it tight enough," answered the other man, pocketing his pistol.
"By the bloomin' idol made of mud!" he cried, "you've given me the climax. It makes the story more moral than ever." And he murmured, as if only for himself: "Which side, O Bud! Which side?" A little later he put up both windows. "It'll be awfully hot," said Amaryllis. "Let's be absolutely silent for a bit," said Dick. "With our ears to the partition, we might hear something."
They won't come out unless their bloomin' Emperor sends them out to commit a sort of hari-kiri at the end of the war.... That's what makes it so boring up here...." "As a matter of fact we caught the Turk who laid most of the mines in the Tigris. He conned us up the river we put him in a basket and slung him on the bowsprit: just in case he got careless, what? ..." "... Beer?
He spoke, chewing his pipe-stem meditatively the while: 'Go forth, return in glory, To Clusium's royal 'ome: An' round these bloomin' temples 'ang The bloomin' shields o' Rome. You better go. You ain't like to shoot yourself not while there's a chanst of liquor. Me an' Learoyd'll stay at 'ome an' keep shop 'case o' anythin' turnin' up.
Once, on the Somme in the fall of 1916, when I had been over the top and was being carried back somewhat disfigured but still in the ring, a cockney stretcher bearer shot this question at me: "Hi sye, Yank. Wot th' bloody 'ell are you in this bloomin' row for? Ayen't there no trouble t' 'ome?" And for the life of me I couldn't answer.
He's a queer one for sure, hey? Did you ever see a skipper with such a look? Sech bleeding eyes an' nose, hey? Like the beak of an old albatross. He hasn't come out to lay the course yet, but let her go. She'll head within half a point of what she's doin' now. Sink me, but I don't believe there's three bloomin' beggars in my watch as can steer the craft, and she's got a new wheel gear on her too.
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