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"One of the nice things they say about her," I interrupted, "is that no engineer is needed to run this machine." "No. They'd need about seven." "'Common-sense only is needed," I quoted. "Make a note of that, Hinch. Just common-sense," Pyecroft put in. "And now," I said, "we'll have to take in water. There isn't more than a couple of inches of water in the tank." "Where d'you get it from?"
Not so his volatile retainer, who stuck his fork into a lump of meat vindictively, as if it had been the body of a McLeod, and exclaimed: "Hah! vat you say? troblesom, eh? who care for dat? If de Macklodds do touche, by von small hinch, de lands of de Companie ve vill hah!" Another stab of the fork was all that the savage Le Rue vouchsafed as an explanation of his intentions.
Fred and the young surgeon, too, worked like the rest, with their coats off, handkerchiefs bound round their heads, and shirt-sleeves tucked up to their shoulders. At last the tide rose inch by inch, and slowly, as if it grudged to give them even a chance of escape. Mivins grew impatient and unbelieving under it. "I don't think it'll rise another hinch," he remarked to O'Riley, who stood near him.
At the caveson. At the false clown. At prison bars. At the flints, or at the nine stones.At have at the nuts. At to the crutch hulch back. At cherry-pit. At the Sanct is found. At rub and rice. At hinch, pinch and laugh not. At whiptop. At the leek. At the casting top. At bumdockdousse. At the hobgoblins. At the loose gig. At the O wonderful. At the hoop. At the soily smutchy. At the sow.
"I've took a few risks in my time," said Pyecroft as timbers cracked beneath us and we entered between thickets, "but I'm a babe to this man, Hinch." "Don't talk to me. Watch him! It's a liberal education, as Shakespeare says. Fallen tree on the port bow, Sir." "Right! That's my mark. Sit tight!"
Moreover, the odd little drawing-teacher, whom Hannah afterwards, when some qualms as to her own prudence assailed her, characterized as "hevery hinch a lady if she was that queer you'd think she'd just hescaped the lunatic hasylum," removed another stumbling-block from the path of the latter.
Does she decant her innards often, so to speak?" Pyecroft asked. I told him the true tale of a race-full of ball bearings strewn four miles along a Hampshire road, and by me recovered in detail. He was profoundly touched. "Poor Hinch! Poor poor Hinch!" he said. "And that's only one of her little games, is it? He'll be homesick for the Navy by night."
My father was a bricklayer, and my mother sold apples and oranges and other fruits, according to the season, and also whiskey, which she made herself, as she well knew how; for my mother was not only a Connacht woman, but an out-and-out Connamara quean, and when only thirteen had wrought with the lads who used to make the raal cratur on the islands between Ochterard and Bally na hinch.
Then we should be able to arrange a plan of co-operation, and perhaps succeed in re-taking the vessel, when crash! down went my card castle. "Bob!" came in smothered tones. "Hullo." "Can't get any farder, mate." "Why?" "I'm too big." "Well, then, come back and let me try." "Can't, mate." "Why?" "'Cause I'm stuck fast, and can't move either way a hinch."
We're visiting friends among these kopjes." A monotonous bellowing up the road persisted, where the carrier was still calling for corpses. "That's Agg. He's Hinch's cousin. You aren't fortunit in your family connections, Hinch. 'E's usin' language in derogation of good manners. Go and abolish 'im." Henry Salt Hinchcliffe stalked back to the cart and spoke to his cousin.
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