United States or Cook Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Yes, of course, I forgive him now, and you know, Des Saix, since that sort of a trial we had I have never said one word of reproach. I was not going to trample on a fallen man. But, you know, all that business, to use a coarse old English expression, sticks in my gizzard. It was not honourable, nor gentlemanly; I won't add noble.
"By Gosh, I wish I had the curst British rascal who played me this trick, on t'other shore if I wouldn't tuck my knife into his b y gizzard, then is my name not Jeremiah Desborough. What the h l's to be done now?"
The sooner they learn the better, for our new girl has too much to do in the house to attend to that; besides, she's either clumsy or nervous, for she has twice overturned the milk-pail. But after all, I don't wonder, for that red cow has several times showed a desire to fling a hind-leg into the girl's face, and stick a horn in her gizzard. The boys won't mind that, you know.
It will stick in my gizzard a long time, I can tell you." Edwards buried his face in his hands and fairly sobbed. "I can bear it no longer," he cried at last. "You so kind to me and all! I know who robbed you." "You!" exclaimed Crawley, thinking the boy had gone delirious again. "Yes, I," repeated Edwards.
Well then, after this fearful scene has continued for, I dare not say how long the black butler ay, the black butler, a slave himself oh, my friends, even the black butlers are slaves the very men who minister the wine in health which maketh their hearts glad, and the castor oil in sickness, which maketh them any thing but of a cheerful countenance this very black butler is desired, on peril of having a drumstick stuck into his own gizzard also, and his skull fractured by the aforesaid iron ladles red hot, it may be ay, and who shall say they are not full of molten lead? yes, molten lead does not our reverend brother Lachrimac Roarem say that the ladles might have been full of molten lead, and what evidence have we on the other side, that they were not full of molten lead?
When the old woman had gone Creedle said, "He'll fret his gizzard green if he don't soon hear from that maid of his. Well, learning is better than houses and lands. But to keep a maid at school till she is taller out of pattens than her mother was in 'em 'tis tempting Providence." "It seems no time ago that she was a little playward girl," said young Timothy Tangs.
"Well, cook my gizzard," he exclaimed presently, through his nose, and after another good look at me and along the decks and up aloft, "if this ain't mi-raculous, tew. Durned if we didn't take this hooker for some ghost ship riz from the sea, in charge of a merman rigged out to fit her age. Y' are all alone, air you?" "All alone," said I.
Poggin nodded in slow-gathering wrath. "Well, Jim's new pard this man Dodge he's not who he seems. Oh-ho! He's a hell of a lot different. But I know him. An' when I spring his name on you, Poggin, you'll freeze to your gizzard. Do you get me?
The village sticks in my gizzard, and I thank God, the King of heaven, that I am well fed and clothed, and that I am a free man; I can live where I like, I don't want to live in the village and nobody can force me to do it. They say: 'You have a wife. They say: 'You are obliged to live at home with your wife. Why? I have not sold myself to her." "Tell me, Stiepan.
"Come now, Jake," said the trooper sternly, "you know it's all up with you, so you needn't go talkin' bosh like that more need to say your prayers. Stand back and shut the window, I say, else I'll put a bullet through your gizzard." "Well now, Silas," said Jake, remonstratively, and opening the breast of his red shirt as he spoke, "I didn't expect that of an old friend like you indeed I didn't.
Word Of The Day