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The day in the autumn fixed by popular mandate when the straw hat is to be discarded for the season is hilariously celebrated in Wall Street by the destruction by the affronted populace of the straw hats of those who have had the temerity or the thoughtlessness to wear them. Coloured men in livery stables, however, sometimes wear straw hats the year round.
Then find my cup and fill it, there's a good fellow, and I'll owe you a glass of grog." "Hi, yi!" answered the black, his eyes sparkling and his teeth gleaming hilariously, "who you call `brack demon, eh, sah? Who eber hear of brack demon turnin' out at four o'clock in de mornin' to make coffee for young gentermen, eh?
It was a clear, star-lit morning, and we seemed to hold the broad, beautiful avenue to ourselves; and I fear we acted as if it were so. As we hilariously passed the corner of Eighteenth Street, a coupe rolled by, and I suddenly heard my name called from its gloomy depths. "I beg your pardon," said the Doctor, as his driver drew up by the sidewalk, "but I've some news for you.
Little-Dad says that if a person could just bore right through Kettle you'd come out on the sixth hole of the Wayside Golf course only it'd be an awfully long bore." John Westley laughed hilariously. He had suddenly thought how carefully his guide always planned easy hikes for him. The girl went on. "But it's just a little way down this trail to Sunnyside that's where I live.
To pull up at the veranda with a stentorian shout, to thump loudly at the deserted bar, to hilariously beat the panels of the landlord's door, and commit a jocose assault and battery upon that half-dresssed and half-awakened man, was eminently characteristic of Wynn, and part of his amiable plans that morning.
Aunt Becky, with her shoulders raised in a shudder, and an agonised and peremptory 'there, there, there, moved out of hearing in dignified disgust, to the general's high entertainment, who enjoyed her assaults upon innocent Puddock, and indeed took her attacks upon himself, when executed with moderation, hilariously enough a misplaced good-humour which never failed to fire Aunt Becky's just resentment.
"What!" said Colonel Starbottle, starting up. "Hold on!" said Pyecroft hilariously. "That isn't all! Neither the executors nor the probate judge knew you from Adam, and the Sacramento bar, scenting a good joke, lay low and said nothing.
The enthusiastic members of my family, who confidently expected to see its inmates hilariously disporting themselves at its windows in the different stages of inebriation portrayed by the late W. E. Burton, were much disappointed. The Home was reticent of its secrets. The County Hospital, also in range of the bay-window, showed much more animation.
From the summit of Vesuvius, darkly visible at the distance, there shot a pale, meteoric, livid light it trembled an instant and was gone. And at the same moment that his eye caught it, the voice of one of the youngest of the women broke out hilariously and shrill:
She raised her arm in the air, and then, suddenly conscious, flushed, and turned to the piano. "Go on, tell us," urged Mabel. "So you first met him in Geneva, did you?" "No," corrected Vera, "saw him there. I only met him once." Mannie interrupted hilariously. "I only saw him once, too," he cried, "that was enough for me." Vera swiftly spun the piano stool so that she faced him.
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