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I thought you were such a great big cock-a-hoop sort of a chap that you could do anything. Well, where's it to be?" "Round the other side, I think," I said.
"Whew! my young cock sparrow, to whom do you belong?" asked the man, squirting a stream of tobacco juice out of his mouth, which Dan narrowly escaped. "We belong to our father," answered Dan, "and to no one else." "And who is your father, master cock-a-hoop?" asked the man. "Call me by my proper name and I'll answer a civil question."
My young cock-a-hoop and I being left facing each other on the pavement of the court, he said to me, with a terrific scowl in his handsome bright young face: "Who are you, sir?" "Babache," said I. "Captain of Uhlans in the body-guard of Count Saxe." "Well, Babache," continues my young man, twirling his snuff-box as he had probably seen some older man do, "you were infernally in my way just now."
Had Dam struck the blow a second sooner, the fight would have been over and he would have won. As it was, Harberth had the whole interval in which to recover. Dam's own luck! Fighting the Snake was the real joy, and victory would end it. So would defeat and he must not get cock-a-hoop and careless. Delorme filled his mouth with water and ejected it in a fine spray over Dam's head and chest.
"Awful" indeed! But it was too late; enough tasting had been done to cover me, as I felt, with everlasting disgrace. "Amy was so awfully cock-a-hoop about her new dish, too," began Norman; "and now " But his brotherly remarks were cut short by my left-hand neighbor, with an intimation, that, if he had any regard for his physical or mental well-being, he would at least postpone them.
That is all there is of rebellion, treason, and sedition, all the cock-a-hoop story! Ludwell Cary may keep his own breath to cool his own porridge. And you, Jacqueline, you who married me, you have not a soul to be frighted with big words! You and I shall walk side by side." "Shall we?" she said. "That will depend. I'll not walk with you over the dead dead faith, dead hope, dead honour!"
In the original "vocat" Savagesynne, alias vocat "Le Belle on the Hope." Perhaps the phrase "Cock-a-Hoop," may be derived from the sign of that bird standing on a hoop, thus most conspicuously displaying himself, as we find that sign or rather design existed in the reign above mentioned.
Haigh was in all about an hour and a half gone, and returned very much cock-a-hoop with himself. He was brought on board by a smart boat rowed by four men; and telling them to wait, he came down below. "Hullo, Cospatric! you're looking as black as a Soudanese stoker with the stomach-ache. Did ye think I'd been tampering with the interests of the firm? Not a bit of it, man.
"The governor I can see it as if it were yesterday seemed to go like ice, for he loved to be thought infallible in all such things as well as in great business affairs, and his nephew was there to give an edge to the matter. He said, curtly, that I would probably come on better in the world if I were more exact and less cock-a-hoop with myself.
The girl has scarce been a week, nay, a day in her service, but a committee of servant-wenches are appointed to examine her, who advise her to raise her wages, or give warning; to encourage her to which, the herb- woman, or chandler-woman, or some other old intelligencer, provides her a place of four or five pounds a year; this sets madam cock-a-hoop, and she thinks of nothing now but vails and high wages, and so gives warning from place to place, till she has got her wages up to the tip-top.
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