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There appeared to be much ill-humor among the party in the batteau, for the directions of Benjamin were not only frequent, but issued in a voice that partook largely of dissatisfaction. Pull larboard oar, will ye, Master Kirby? cried the old seaman; pull larboard best. It would puzzle the oldest admiral in their British fleet to cast this here net fair, with a wake like a corkscrew.
Sarah Matilda has lost her shoe, and the water has closed over it, and she can't find it. 'Pistol, where is your corkscrew? draw it out. "'It's all your fault, sais the sleeping partner to the head of the firm, 'I told you to bring the umbrellas. "'It's all yours, retorts the afflicted husband, 'I told you these things were all nonsense, and more trouble than they were worth.
That's plain English, but I can't help speaking out, for I know not one of you would willingly hurt Charlie, and you will if you don't let him alone." "What do you pitch into me for? I've done nothing. A fellow must be civil in his own house, mustn't he?" asked Van good-humoredly as he faced about, corkscrew in hand.
I suggested, with another look in the glass. "No; you must come. If you don't, the Doctor is sure to send for you, and that will make it worse. I say!" "Well?" "People who fight used to take the spoils of the vanquished. I wish I could have taken old Dicksee's four-bladed knife, with the lancet and corkscrew to it, and you could have taken old Eely's watch."
Anyway, there they were, hundreds of them apparently, looking something as a huge corkscrew might look if it had been laid on a railroad track for a train to flatten. We began to fly down, faster and faster, the motor making no noise at all.
Certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in a state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his appreciation of the importance of inventions now common but once revolutionary, for example, the aeronautic parachute, the reflecting telescope, the spiral corkscrew, the safety pin, the mineral water siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction pump.
Those who dwelt on top had no desire to spend their strength in carrying down the corkscrew stairs matter which would descend by the force of gravity if pitched from the window or door; so the wayfarer, especially after dusk, would be greeted with cries of 'Get oot o' the gait! or 'Gardy loo! which was in the French 'Gardez l'eau, and which would have been understood in any language, I fancy, after a little experience.
One fine morning my wife and I set out in a venerable carriage for San Cristobal de la Laguna. The Camino de los Coches, a fine modern highway in corkscrew fashion from Santa Cruz to Orotava, was begun, by the grace of General Ortega, who died smoking in the face of the firing party, and ended between 1862 and 1868.
"Oh, I had a little hen and she had a wooden leg And nearly every morning she used to lay an egg " "Will you stop that racket, Rich! It's the real thing this time, I suppose?" "She's the best little chicken that we have on the farm And another little drink won't do us any harm " he finished, twisting out the corkscrew. Then he came over and sat down on the bed.
Fortune on this occasion was blind to the merits of Mr. Corkscrew, and threw him over most unmercifully. It so happened that Mr. Snape had been summoned to an evening conference with Mr. Oldeschole and the other pundits of the office, to discuss with them, or rather to hear discussed, some measure which they began to think it necessary to introduce, for amending the discipline of the department.
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