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"Now, why," said Hugh addressing the rows of plates ranged beside him, "why does a woman feel it her bounden duty to clap down with a conventional remark like that every time a man lets off a little steam? Besides I deny it, the chair is not comfortable." Kate gave a sidelong glance at the clock and began to chop parsley as if against time.
Not been stewed long enough, perhaps." The head-man gave an order, and presently a woman at the cooking fire outside brought another calabash into the hut, and set it at the little sailor's feet. The head-man examined and explained: "Dem's dug chop, too-plenty-much fine. You fit?" "I fit," said Kettle; "that'll suit me down to the ground, daddy.
Some live by fishing, some chop wood; but for the most part they are an idle and thriftless lot, and methinks have fled hither rather to escape from honest work or to avoid the penalties of crimes than for any other reason." "How may we find them?" Edmund asked. "They are scattered over the island.
A shepherd on the hills of Scotland, who returns every night to his bothie, and finds a warm supper cooked for him by some kind female hand, is a prince compared to the exile of Australia, who comes home tired and sleepy at sun-down, and may then either chop wood to cook his meal, or go supperless to bed, as suits his fancy.
She was pinned in against the oak tree by interlocked branches which her strength seemed unavailing to so much as disturb. It seemed that all she could do would be to lie helplessly back and wait for somebody to come and find her before she could get out. But would she have to stay in this place all night before anyone did come? And wait until they could chop her out after they came?
"Very inferior chop" that was his West African word for food "for a gentleman, Major," he said, shaking his white head sympathetically and pointing to the mutton, "specially when he has unexpectedly departed from magnificent eating of The Court. Why did you not wait till after dinner, Major, before retiring?"
Russelton, "at depriving you of so much amusement. With me you will only find some tolerable Lafitte, and an anomalous dish my cuisiniere calls a mutton chop. It will be curious to see what variation in the monotony of mutton she will adopt to-day.
Morten was still thinking of his despised letters. "Yes, but the atmosphere of a cell is not suited for friendly relations with the outside world. You get to hate all who are at liberty those who mean well by you too and you chop off even the little bit of branch you're sitting on. Perhaps I should never have got into touch with life again if it hadn't been for the mice in my cell.
Dias and Jose soon arrived at a gallop, with the long poles trailing behind them and a fagot of short sticks fastened to each saddle. "Those are capital poles, Dias," Harry said as he examined them "strong enough for anything. We will chop notches in them for the rungs to lie in. There will be no fear then of their shifting, which they might do if the lashings stretched.
In place of running right across now from shelter to shelter, the big swordsmen stopped from time to time on their way to flourish their weapons, yell, indulge in a kind of war-dance, and shout out words we did not understand. "What do they say, Ching?" asked Smith. "Say chop all in lit' small piece dilectly."
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