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"You've got a little character, down among the Delawares, there, for quickness and sartainty, at a deer, but I should like to see you behind one of them pines, and a full painted Mingo behind another, each with a cock'd rifle and a striving for the chance! Them's the situations, Nathaniel, to try the sight and the hand, for they begin with trying the narves.

No no as soon as I smelt his Yankee powther, and could get my own musket cock'd, and pointed out of the forthifications, I lets 'em have it, as if it had been so much breakfast ready cooked to their hands. 'Twas well pointed, too; for I'm not the man to shoot into a fri'nd's countenance." "And you broke the orders for a reason no better than the fact that Strides had broken them before?"

Aurelian fancy'd it was a Woman's Voice, and immediately drawing his Sword, demanded what was the Matter; he was answered with the Appearance of a Man, who had opened a Dark Lanthorn which he had by him, and came toward him with a Pistol in his Hand ready cock'd.

The door was thrust rudely open, and Captain Settle, his hat cock'd over one eye, and sham drunkenness in his gait, lurched into the room, with the whole villainous crew behind him, huddled on the threshold. Jacques and I stepp'd quietly back, so as to cover the girl.

It is not like the affair of an old hat cock'd and a cock'd old hat, about which your reverences have so often been at odds with one another but there is a difference here in the nature of things And let me tell you, gentry, a wide one too.

There's some of our young lieutenants, who come to muster on Sundays in cock'd hats, just like soldier-officers; but, d'ye see, I would sooner show my nose under a nightcap than under a scraper!"

You know, parson, we seldom hear much said of a man, without forming some sort of an idea concerning his rigging and fashion-pieces and so, as I had no particular reason to believe that Satan went naked keep full, ye lubber; now you are running into the wind's eye, and be d d to ye! But as I was saying, I always took a conceit that the devil wore knee-breeches and a cock'd hat.

The King mentioned that he heard much of the picture, but he was informed that the dignity of the subject had been impaired by the latter circumstance; observing that it was thought very ridiculous to exhibit heroes in coats, breeches, and cock'd hats.

Her easy air, action, mien, and gesture quite chang'd, from the quoif to the cock'd hat and cavalier in fashion. People were so fond of seeing her a man, that when the part of Bays in the 'Rehearsal' had for some time lain dormant, she was desired to take it up, which I have seen her act with all the true coxcombly spirit and humour that the sufficiency of the character required."

Now about this little girl I'll bet my three-cornered cock'd hat against a pinch of Scotch snuff that she has been abducted entrapped into the power of some scoundrel for the worst of purposes. That's the most natural supposition that I can get at.