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To help him Jem Burton had lent the services of his herring-gutted, herring-hearted, greyhound lurcher, Monkey. But before they had well topped Braithwaite Brow, which leads from the village on to the marches, M'Adam was standing in the track with a rock in his hand, a smile on his face, and the tenderest blandishments in his voice as he coaxed the dog to him.
"Have you not a herring there, you herring-gutted scoundrel? which, in defiance of all the rules of the service, you have brought on his Majesty's quarter-deck, you greedy rascal, and for which I intend " "It ar'n't my herring, sir, it be yours, for your breakfast; the only one that is left out of the half-dozen." This last remark appeared somewhat to pacify Mr Vanslyperken.
This person has played such an important part in the state since the death of the King, that it is fit that he should be made known. The Abbe Dubois was a little, pitiful, wizened, herring-gutted man, in a flaxen wig, with a weazel's face, brightened by some intellect. In familiar terms, he was a regular scamp.
"Never more will he butt alike the just and the unjust, the fat and bloated German merchant nor the herring-gutted Yankee skipper, nor the bare ah um legged Samoan, nor the gorgeous consul in the solar topee. Gone is the glory of Samoa with Billy MacLaggan.
This person has played such an important part in the state since the death of the King, that it is fit that he should be made known. The Abbe Dubois was a little, pitiful, wizened, herring-gutted man, in a flaxen wig, with a weazel's face, brightened by some intellect. In familiar terms, he was a regular scamp.
Flog my Jemmy my own, dear, darling Jemmy a nasty lean " "Go down below, Moggy," said Jemmy Ducks, pushing her towards the hatchway. "Snivelling, great-coated " "Go below," continued Jemmy, shoving her. "Ferret-eyed, razor-nosed " "Go down below, will you?" cried Jemmy, pushing her near to the hatchway. "Herring-gutted, bare-poled " "Confound it! go below." "Cheating rip of a wagabond!
Next came a rather herring-gutted, lanky bay horse, which having been bought at the Peake, I called Peveril; he was generally poor, but always able, if not willing, for his work. Then came a big bay cob, and an old flea-bitten gray called Buggs, that got bogged in the Stemodia viscosa Creek, and a nuggetty-black harness-horse called Darkie, always very fat.
'A sort of constipated Browning, said Phillips. 'Exactly, said Harding. 'And would you have him married? asked John Norton. 'Certainly. I imagine him living in a tiny little house somewhere near the river Westminster or Chelsea. His wife would be a dreadful person, thin, withered, herring-gutted a sort of red herring with a cap.
"Have you not a herring there, you herring-gutted scoundrel? which, in defiance of all the rules of the service, you have brought on his Majesty's quarter-deck, you greedy rascal, and for which I intend " "It ar'n't my herring, sir, it be yours for your breakfast the only one that is left out of the half-dozen." This last remark appeared somewhat to pacify Mr Vanslyperken.
'Sink me if I like going back without a blow struck, he growled. 'Yet if it is your will there is an end of the matter. Tell me, lad. Has that lank-sparred, slab-sided, herring-gutted friend of yours played you false? for if he has, by the eternal, old as I am, my hanger shall scrape acquaintance with the longshore tuck which hangs at his girdle.
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