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The great raft, indeed, lay like what it was a raft of logs; and, although the men had oars, it was only with great difficulty it could be pushed along, and moved slowly and heavily through the water. Why should Brace be at all uneasy about our overtaking it? But it was not that that was urging him to such haste. The conjecture only held possession of my thoughts for an instant.
A brace of greyhounds to one buck is fair play, and a good strong horse will generally keep them in view. In two weeks' coursing in the Park, we killed seventeen deer with three greyhounds; at the expiration of which time, the dogs were so footsore and wounded by the hard burnt stubble of the old grass that they were obliged to be sent home.
I'm falling falling all the time." "So am I. Brace up. We'll get used to it. Get a couple of hands aft and heave the log. We take our departure from Kittredge Point, Barbados Island, at six o'clock this morning of the 10th October. We'll keep a Geordie's log-book with a jack-knife and a stick." They hove the log for him.
To this I answered with a second jest: 'Ramses has given me a brace of hunting dogs and two Syrian horses because he has grown tired of them; perhaps some day he will give me his mistress too, of course I shall have to take her with other things.." "Do not think of it. I would not give Sarah to any man, were it only for this, because of her my father has not appointed me viceroy."
Out of respect for the captain, he had left the inquiry entirely in his hands, but now he hobbled over to Drew and clapped him vigorously on the shoulder. "Brace up, my boy!" he exclaimed. "I don't know jest what the motive of that swab is, but I know he was lying from first to last."
I am a defenceless man!... I will not die ... I cannot die.... Cowards!" Taurus Antinor had to brace himself up against the sickening sense of almost physical nausea that came over him at sight of this pitiful creature, more abject than any cur.
"Well, Brace," said Briscoe, "I don't call this pretty; but I'd have taken twice as much trouble to get here so as to see it. Throw on some more of this dead stuff, lads. There's a good draught comes in and carries the heat upwards, and it will make a clearance of all these birds' nests and rubbish."
The second Emir lounges about the rigging awhile, and then slightly shaking the main brace, to see whether it will be all right with that important rope, he likewise takes up the old burden, and with a rapid "Dinner, Mr. Flask," follows after his predecessors.
It’s a devilish dull world when one can’t share a bottle—or a brace of them, for the matter of that.” “You know London?” asked the Baron. “I used to, and I daresay my memory will revive.” “I know it not, pairhaps you can inform. I haf gom, as I say, to-day.” “With pleasure,” said the stranger, readily. “In fact, if you are ever disengaged I may possibly be able to act as showman.”
"What was it for?" repeated Brace, with a perplexed look. "Why, my dear, it was it was for the honour and glory of Old England, to be sure." "No, no, Jack, not quite that," interposed Adams, with a laugh, "it was to clap a stopper on the ambition of the French, as far as I can make out; or rather to snub that rascal Napoleon Bonnypart, an' keep him within bounds."
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