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Judging from the expression of his face, Frank decided that the academy head was not very favorably impressed with either the words or the appearance of the visitor. "You see, kind sir," said the repulsed Brady, turning to him and snuffling as if at the point of tears, "my own kin disowns me. Oh, sir, it is hard, hard, to have it happen so!" Ned did not say a word.
"The management disowns you. You're out in the cold world," laughed Butler. "All right. That's good. Then I don't have to work." "No, he doesn't have to work," agreed the professor. "Nor does he have to eat. No work, no eat, is the motto of this outfit." Chunky got busy at once. Captain McKay had little to say.
The letters were then read, the last one appointing me to hold the government of Sarawak. After this the rajah descended, and said aloud, 'If any one present disowns or contests the sultan's appointment, let him now declare. All were silent. He next turned to the Patingis, and asked them; they were obedient to the will of the sultan.
The spectator of this admirable specimen of intellect and good feeling, which was all necessarily the thought and act of a moment, had his hand instinctively in his pocket for a shilling, but was stopped by the teacher, who disowns all inferior motives for acts of kindness and justice.
The coyote is your real lord of the mesa, and so he makes sure you are armed with no long black instrument to spit your teeth into his vitals at a thousand yards, is both bold and curious. Not so bold, however, as the badger and not so much of a curmudgeon. This short-legged meat-eater loves half lights and lowering days, has no friends, no enemies, and disowns his offspring.
Captain Black disowns the idea of the French and Spaniards being drawn up chequer form for resisting the British attack, and imputes the appearance of that array to sheer accident of weather. June 18. We visited Wemyss Castle on our return to Kinghorn. On the left, before descending to the coast, are considerable remains of a castle, called popularly the old castle, or Macduff's Castle.
Naturally my mind has not been idle all the while." "You have not married?" "I never had the time." "Ah." He rowed quietly for some moments. "'Never had the time," he repeated thoughtfully. "You think marriage is important?" "A man without children disowns his parents." "Sounds like a proverb." "It is not. Just an observation.
"If the old man disowns him, I will take him to some London sights, and then we will go back to Fenside, and let him turn farmer if he likes, and I'll help him; or it may be that David will hear of something more to his advantage, or perhaps find out some of his other relatives. David is as keen as a ferret, and he'll not let a chance pass of serving the lad." John's patience was seriously tried.
I am the dog of the army fetching and carrying for a smile and a pat on the head. I am ruined, and I am working my way up as best I can. My uncle disowns me. It is to General Schoneck that I owe this chance of re-establishing myself. I followed the army out of Milan. I was at Melegnano, at Pastrengo, at Santa Lucia.
"If, on his declaring to his father that nothing will ever induce him to marry any other woman but Miss Appleyard, his father disowns him, as he thinks it likely " "A dead cert!" was Grindley junior's conviction. "Very well; he is no longer old Grindley's son, and what possible objection can Mr. Appleyard have to him then?"
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