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And as a final wind-up, after having made them writhe sufficiently, he ordered them to go back whence they came, and take a share in rescuing their fellows. "Bud we shall trown," shouted back one speaker from the wildly jumping boat. "Then drown, and be hanged to you," shouted Kettle. "I'm sure I don't care if you do. But I'm not going to have cowards like you dirtying my deck-planks."
Juschka and I were not detained long: my father got out of breath and began to cough, and besides it was not his way to be cross. "Brother," said my aunt, who noticed with regret that he was getting over his wrath, "don't trouble yourself any more about this matter: it's not worth dirtying your hands about.
If a union of women is to succeed, it must be composed of strength, nerve, courage, and persistence, with no fear of dirtying their white fingers, but with a determination that when they go into an office they would go through all that was required of them and demand just as high wages as the men....
So I suppose she must have gathered it from my attire, though as a matter of fact I haven't been wearing a collar, and those men who wanted to cook me, pulled off my white tie and I didn't think it worth while dirtying a clean one."
Crying out for education, and helping to debauch the public mind with Voltaire's 'Candide, and Eugene Sue swearing by Jesus, and puffing Atheism and blasphemy yelling at a quack government, quack law, quack priesthoods, and then dirtying your fingers with half-crowns for advertising Holloway's ointment and Parr's life pills shrieking about slavery of labour to capital, and inserting Moses and Son's doggerel ranting about searching investigations and the march of knowledge, and concealing every fact which cannot be made to pander to the passions of your dupes extolling the freedom of the press, and showing yourself in your own office a tyrant and a censor of the press.
They surrounded the old man and were about to attack him, when the first man who had already profited by the old man's charity warned them off. "There is no need for violence here," said he, hurriedly, and speaking in their native language; "he will give us up all he has got without so much as dirtying a knife over him." The old man laughed.
He did not confine himself to literal repetitions, but concocted new "originals" by combining parts of several pictures in worm-eaten panels or time-stained canvases, with such variations of motive or design as their supposed authors would naturally have made in repeating their ideas in fresher combinations, sometimes leaving portions unfinished, ingeniously dirtying their surfaces, and giving to them that cracked-porcelain appearance common to the old masters.
Paris was formerly the home of most of the learned Poodles, and one remembers the instance of the Poodle of the Pont Neuf, who had the habit of dirtying the boots of the passers-by in order that his master a shoe-black stationed half-way across the bridge might enjoy the profit of cleaning them.
But think of those awful, solemn, lop-sided Oddities waiting for us at home crawling and clambering and preaching and dirtying things in the dark." "I don't mind that so much as their silly songs, after we've fed 'em, all about 'work among the merry, merry blossoms," said Sacharissa from the deeps of a stale Canterbury bell. "I do. How's our Queen?" said Melissa. "Cheerfully hopeless, as usual.
She read the books of the period, and generally pronounced them ridiculous; she believed in her husband's politics, and aristocratically approved the way in which he abstained from putting theory into practice, from voting, and in a general way from dirtying his fingers with anything so corrupt as government, or so despicable as elections; she understood Boston business to some extent, and called it finance, but she despised the New York Stock Market and denounced its doings as gambling.
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