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He now came in sight of the neat white cottage of the old Corporal, and there, leaning over the pale, a crutch under one arm, and his friendly pipe in one corner of his shrewd mouth, was the Corporal himself. Long may thy race flourish, for at this day it is not extinct.
My great-uncle having concluded his story, adjusted his crutch, wiped his weeping eyes, relieved his hoarseness with a small quantity of temperance bitters, and limped away.
It is possible I may feel his crutch upon my back, but blows will not degrade me. The Jew is accustomed to blows and kicks to be daily trodden under foot. Even if the king beats me, he will give me back my honor, for he will give me back my gold." "Suppose that he also refuses you?" "Then I will raise my voice until it is heard over the whole earth," cried Ephraim, passionately.
"Well, thank you for the tea, for the sugar, little children. It is time to sleep. I am like a bit of rotten timber nowadays, my beams are crumbling under me. Ho-ho-ho! I suppose it's time I was dead." And he gave a gulp. Old Tsybukin did not finish his tea but sat on a little, pondering; and his face looked as though he were listening to the footsteps of Crutch, who was far away down the street.
Possum says peppermint is good for it. I must have eaten a little too much cheese pudding last night." "I'll get you the peppermint with pleasure," said the bunny uncle, starting off with his tall silk hat and his red, white and blue striped rheumatism barber pole crutch. "Better get it in a bottle," spoke Nurse Jane, with a laugh.
The professor, if he laid there and heard it, would feel like getting out of the grave, and taking a crutch and mauling the liver out of the bigoted rebel.
They walked silently along the street for a little while. Lane had to accommodate his step to the slower movement of his crippled friend. Blair's crutch tapped over the stone pavement and clicked over the curbs. They crossed the railroad tracks and turned off the main street to go down a couple of blocks.
I've got stuff to dress it properly. Think you can hobble across the clearing if I make you a temporary crutch?" Thompson at first declined to be such a source of trouble. He was grateful enough, but reluctant. Carr, however, went about it in a way that permitted nothing short of a boorish refusal, and presently Mr.
"Ay, ye'll do your best," agreed Wixton, with a foreboding shake of his grizzled head "but you're not a Jocelyn, an' your best'll be but a bad crutch, though there's Jocelyn blood in ye by ye'r mother's side. Howsomever it's not the same as the male line, do what we will an' say what we like!
"Cornelius and Moses," he counted, "and Elsie and Polly," his eyes had reached the little girl with a crutch, whose pale face was growing pink and paler by turns, "and Leonora and Brida," he went on; "that makes six." "Oh, me too?" squealed Brida delightedly, clutching her chair for support in the trying moment.
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