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Our conversation was intimate, so to speak, and yet not confidential." "The Dyak chaps talk about a Big Colugo, a Klang-utang whatever that may be. It does not often attack man, but I suppose you made it nervous. They say there is a Big Colugo and a Little Colugo, and a something else that sounds like gobble. They all fly about at night.
Twice a day she took them out to feed in the marshy places, let them waddle and gobble for an hour or two, and then drove them back and shut them up in a small dark shed to digest their meal, whence they gave forth occasionally a melancholy quack.
"It seems to me," said Colin, "that the whole story of the seas is that fish eat fish, while the few that escape from their own kind are gobbled up by seagulls and terns and other birds." "Yet," said the other, smiling, "the birds don't have it all their own way. Sometimes the fish gobble them!" "Can they eat birds?"
What the Spaniards think of it is shown by the caricature which appeared lately in "Don Quixote," and which shows the United States represented by a hog and the insurgents represented by a negro imprisoned in the trocha, while Weyler stands ready to turn the Spanish lion on them and watch it gobble them up.
The break at noon in the great manufactories, as well as in the family workshop, is long, averaging one hour and a half, and reaching often to two hours. The French never gobble. Because food is necessary to animal life, they do not on that account take a puritanical view of it. They dare enjoy it, in spite of its physiological bearing.
"Well, the Boches didn't get us that time," said Charlie, with satisfaction. "Nor the old fliver, either. Hello! Here's General Haig and all his staff. Or is it General Disorder? Hurry up with the Mulligan, Mother Gervaise we've got to gobble and go." He slipped into the seat next to Ruth, smiling at her. He was just a hungry, slangy boy. But those others
He was gazing upwards and measuring the height of the roof with his eye when all at once a loud "Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble!" almost tipped him over backward. The outcry came from the farmhouse. There was no doubt of that. But it didn't come from the roof, nor the chimney. Turkey Proudfoot stared at the windows and the doors and saw no one except Miss Kitty Cat, dozing on a window sill.
We have light enough yet to shoot our suppers, and I heard a turkey `gobble' not far off. You stay by the black man, collect wood for a fire and boughs for a shanty, while I go and try my luck." Saying this, our kind-hearted tutor took his rifle and soon disappeared in the forest.
It was also very valuable in, view of the fact that it increased the confidence between the officers and men of my brigade and me, and gave us for the balance of the month not only comparative rest, but entire immunity from the dangers of a renewed effort to gobble my isolated outpost.
"Why, cat!" she said, "how dreadful of you to eat your friend the parrot!" "Parrot, indeed!" said the cat. "What's a parrot to me? I've a great mind to eat you, too." And before you could say "Jack Robinson" slip! slop! gobble! down went the old woman! Then the cat started down the road again, walking like this, because he felt so fine. Pretty soon he met a man driving a donkey.
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