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"E pluribus unum! Let her go, Gallagher! Erin go bragh! rah! rah! rah! Harvard!" I cried, as I seized the lovely orator in my arms and hugged her to my breast, thereby, to adopt her own words, squeezing out of her the little breath which she had left. "Bravo, Josephine! If you were to take the stump it would be I and not Mr. Spinney who would have a walk-over."
A Johns Hopkins man here for his health." "What else can I do?" asked Uncle Denny. "Shall I come in and sit with him?" "No; ask Mrs. Flynn to come over after dinner. You go out and see the dam and be proud of your boy." "And of me girl," said Uncle Denny. He had been standing with his hat in his hand and now he bent and kissed Pen's cheek. "Erin go bragh!" said Pen. "Uncle Denny, I'm tired!
Mr Bryan led one party, Mr Fitzgerald another; the latter with a loud shriek, which he called his family war cry, it sounded like "Wallop a hoo a boo, Erin go bragh," sprang on to the walls.
Then, apparently satisfied for the moment, he applied himself once more to the nasalsyringe and the pillboxes. On Gootes, however, the consequence of the landing must have been much the same as on me. He too capered and sang and his dialect renderings reached a new low, such as even a burlesqueshow comedian would have spurned. "Tis the old sod itself," he kept repeating, "Erin go bragh.
The Lord-Chancellor used to say, he always laughed at the settlement of pin-money, as ladies were either kicked out of it or kissed out of it; but his lordship, in the whole course of his legal practice, never saw a captain of a man-of-war kissed out of forty men by two pretty Irish girls. After this, who would not shout "Erin go bragh!"
The Lord-Chancellor used to say, he always laughed at the settlement of pin-money, as ladies were either kicked out of it or kissed out of it; but his lordship, in the whole course of his legal practice, never saw a captain of a man-of-war kissed out of forty men by two pretty Irish girls. After this, who would not shout, "Erin go bragh!"
Mr Fitzgerald's voice was heard shouting "We've awoke them up. Erin go bragh! Hurra, lads! push on!" A deep voice was heard joining the shout, "For the schooner! The schooner's our aim!" It was that of McAllister.
"Sure, I thought so!" exclaimed the Irishman, eagerly grasping his treasure. "Erin go bragh! long life to yese, me jewil!" and clapping the instrument to his chin, he made an attempt to play on it; but it required, as may be supposed, no small amount of tuning.
Several of our men had been wounded, but not severely, while numbers of the enemy had fallen. Pat Casey was among the most active of the garrison now firing his musket, now pronging at an Indian who had climbed to the top of the palisade, now using a broadsword which he had secured to his side, all the time shouting out, "Erin go bragh! Down with the spalpeens.
"Along the route advertised, the sidewalks were lined by expectant watchers, in some instances three or four abreast. They waited patiently for nearly three long hours before the head of the line appeared. Green flags, with yellow harps and the words 'Erin go Bragh, were plentifully distributed throughout the crowd.
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