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So little responsible for their own welfare were many of these younkers that, although fairly fitted out for the voyage, they had while weather-bound in the British Channel gone ashore at Old Plymouth and "brushed away" even their cloaks and extra doublets, in some cases their very bedding and such cooking utensils as passengers were then expected to provide themselves with.
Or, suppose you should teach your children the notion of the Adamites, and they should run naked into the streets, would not the magistrate have a right to flog 'em into their doublets? MAYO. 'I think the magistrate has no right to interfere till there is some overt act. BOSWELL. 'So, Sir, though he sees an enemy to the state charging a blunderbuss, he is not to interfere till it is fired off? MAYO. 'He must be sure of its direction against the state. JOHNSON. 'The magistrate is to judge of that.
"Really, Signor Cupid," said Bussy; "it is very cold for that. It will chap your skin." "Monsieur," replied Maugiron, politely, "we have warm gloves, and doublets lined with fur." "Ah! that reassures me," said Bussy; "do you go soon?" "To-night, perhaps." "In that case I must warn the king; what will he say to-morrow, if he finds his friends have caught cold?"
This value comes out very neatly in such English doublets as to refund and a refund, to extract and an extract, to come down and a come down, to lack luster and lack-luster eyes, in which the difference between the verb and the noun is entirely a matter of changing stress. Pitch accent may be as functional as stress and is perhaps more often so.
The Spaniard pulls out a little crucifix, and kisses it devoutly, smiting on his breast; crosses himself two or three times, and says "Most willingly, senor." Cary kisses no crucifix, but says a prayer nevertheless. Cloaks and doublets are tossed off, the men placed, the rapiers measured hilt and point; Sir Richard and St.
He had doublets cut out of his old clothes and cast-off cloaks for Mousqueton, and thanks to a very intelligent tailor, who made his clothes look as good as new by turning them, and whose wife was suspected of wishing to make Porthos descend from his aristocratic habits, Mousqueton made a very good figure when attending on his master.
Agreeably to his death-bed directions, his old fellow-soldiers, in their leathern doublets and battered steel caps, bore him to his grave, firing over him the same rusty muskets which had swept down rank after rank of the men of Amalek at the Derry siege. Erelong the celebrated Derry fair was established, in imitation of those with which they had been familiar in Ireland.
And the surgeon, the cardinal, a fat bishop, the captain of the Scotch Guard, a parliamentary envoy, and a judge loved of the king, followed the two ladies into the room where one rubs the rust off one's jaw bones. And there they lined the mold of their doublets. What is that?
He got near enough, however, to see the crew; who were all dressed in the Dutch style, the officers in doublets and high hats and feathers: not a word was spoken by any one on board; they stood as motionless as so many statues, and the ship seemed as if left to her own government.
Victory is with both; take equal prizes and depart, that other Achaians may contend." Thus spake he, and they were fain to hear and to obey, and wiped the dust from them and put their doublets on.
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