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She decided to add to the scene. "I have been away from my people for many days," and she held up one hand with the five fingers spread out, opening and closing them four times, to indicate twenty. "Ye came over the edge of the world!" marveled Somat. "It were a dangerous thing to do, stranger!" "Aye," agreed Holla, "but less dangerous than that from which I fled.
"Nor of ours, I assure you, sir," said Mrs Ferguson, rising, as Captain Drawlock walked from the gangway to the capstern. "Why, my dear madam, what is the matter?" "We have not been accustomed to such peremptory language, sir. It may be the custom on board ship to holla `stop' to ladies when they address you, or express a wish to leave the deck."
I am by profession a gardener, and have come hither to seek for certain rare trees and flowers." "Holla, there!" cries the King, "bring hither quickly my tablet Romla and the steel pen, and speedily will the truth see daylight." With this, Smaragdine began to study the tablet attentively: she kept her eyes for some moments fixed upon the sky, and then said, "Hateful churl, thou liest!
A couple of days after our arrival, Macdonell was seen walking down to the water's edge with a very cautious step, accompanied by one of his men, bearing his canoe, basket fashion, on one arm, and a large bundle on the other, from which, notwithstanding his steady pace, the jumbling sound of liquor was distinctly heard. "Holla, Mac, where are you going with your basket?"
And while this was going on behold, Ja'afar the Barmecide, who had been absent on an important business for the Commander of the Faithful, entered and recognising the poet, albeit in this plight, said to him, "Holla, Abu Nowas!" He said, "Here at thy service, O our lord." Ja'afar asked, "What offence hast thou committed to bring this punishment on thee?"
Then Theseus shouted to him, and said, 'Holla, thou tortoise- feeder, do thy feet need washing to-day? And Sciron leapt to his feet, and answered 'My tortoise is empty and hungry, and my feet need washing to-day. And he stood before his barrier, and lifted up his club in both hands.
"Well, I never got his name, nor his habitation, as the felleh says; but he was so conscientious that when a highwayman attackted him onct, he wouldn't holla murder nor he wouldn't holla thief, 'cause he wasn't certain whether the highwayman wanted to kill him or rob him. He was something like George Washington, who couldn't tell a lie. Did you ever hear that story about George Washington?"
"Nor of ours, I assure you, sir," said Mrs Ferguson, rising, as Captain Drawlock walked from the gangway to the capstern. "Why, my dear madam, what is the matter?" "We have not been accustomed to such peremptory language, sir. It may be the custom on board ship to holla 'stop' to ladies when they address you, or express a wish to leave the deck."
Now in mountain speech, "several" means simply "a good many." "Any minnows in these branches?" "I seed several in the branch back o' our house." "How far away do you live?" "Oh, 'bout one whoop an' a holler." If he had spoken Greek the Blight could not have been more puzzled. He meant he lived as far as a man's voice would carry with one yell and a holla. "Will you help me catch some?"
"Sure I did," said Pee-wee with great alacrity; "because scouts are supposed to be observant, see? I saw them in Northvale once. But, believe me, I didn't holla. Oh, no! I ran over and told the fellers and they all got away, so as long as you didn't leave them in the lurch it was all right. So now will you join the scouts?
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