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"Rather?" exclaimed the alferez. "He must be exhausted, and as they say here, all fagged out. What a sermon it was!" "A splendid sermon wonderful!" said the escribano. "Magnificent profound!" added the correspondent. "To be able to talk so much, it's necessary to have the lungs that he has," observed Padre Manuel Martin. The Augustinian did not concede him anything more than lungs.
He was filled with fears all at once. It seemed so like planning the meeting of a couple of ghosts. Hazelden, unconscious and at the point of death, and Helen fagged out, worn, and looking like an old woman. He went to her, tenderly laying a stained hand on hers. "Helen," he said, speaking rapidly, "I've no time to break the news to you. The most impossible sort of a thing has happened.
The reality pressed hardly upon them; those were dark evenings when he would come home fagged out by a second lecture at the end of a full day's work and lay himself down wearily on one couch, while she, so long a semi-invalid, lay uselessly on another. And, later, the upbringing of a large family, though its advent made life the more worth living, involved a heavy strain.
But he worked his way here by engaging himself for the journey as a sort of nurse to an invalid young man who wanted to join his family in Washington and was too weak to travel alone." The further from romance the world drifts, the fairer it becomes in its fagged eyes.
He will watch over you, and me and Josiah, and Dorlesky. He will help us, and take care of us." So I begun to feel real well agin a little after dusk. The next morning Cicely wuzn't able to leave her room, no sick seemin'ly, but fagged out. She was a delicate little creeter always, and seemed to grow delicater every day.
Perhaps after all, these little squat Pueblo Indians knew what they were doing when they built so high above the dust storms. Twice the rear wheels lifted for a glorious upset; but we veered and tacked and whipped the fagged horses on.
It is a regular naturalist's hunting-ground and full of treasures, if we dared thoroughly explore it." "Just now, uncle," I said, "I feel as if I want to do nothing else but sit down and rest by a good dinner. Oh! I am so fagged!" "Come along, then," he said smiling, "and we will make straight for camp, and I dare say we can manage a good repast for your lordship. Home, Ebo. Eat drink sleep."
Charles was working away over the ledgers, and used to come home fagged and weary, and Coleridge was far away, and there was no boy to educate now, and only sick and foolish and quibbling people on whom to strike fire. The demnition grind did its work for Mary Lamb as surely as it is today doing it for countless farmers' wives in Iowa and Illinois. Thus ran the years away.
Holcombe, who found himself at the end of it in a very bad way, with nerves unstrung and brain so fagged that he assented without question when his doctor exiled him from New York by ordering a sea voyage, with change of environment and rest at the other end of it.
Thorpe reflected to himself that the peerage was by no means so played-out an institution as some people imagined. "Ho-ho!" the younger man sighed a yawn, as he tossed his hat into the rack above his head. "We shall both be the better for some pure air. London quite does me up. And you you've been sticking at it months on end, haven't you? You look rather fagged or at all events you did yesterday.
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