United States or Lebanon ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Say, cap," again spoke up the second speaker, "the raison as why I asked that there question is that we'll be gettin' to Hunker's ordinary at the four corners right smart off now, and I was calculatin' if you had enough of the rags with you to set us up a drink all round? 'T won't cost more 'n ten thousand dollars if Hunkers ain't in an avaricious mood."
The fact is, that paper comprehends the demands of the times; it understands the age and its issues; it wisely sees that slavery and freedom are the great antagonistic forces in the country, and it goes to its own side. Silver grays and hunkers all understand this. They are, therefore, rapidly sinking all other questions to nothing, compared with the increasing demands of slavery.
My anshestors sat on a throne, when the McBrides had only their hunkers to sit upon; and if I walk now when they ride, they can't look down upon me for every body knows who I am and what they are. Pat. To be sure, ma'am, they do the whole country talks of nothing else, but the shame when you'd be walking and they riding. Catty. Then could the counshillor lend me the horse? Pat.
They "speak for Buncombe," are Barn-Burners, Old Hunkers, Hard Shells, Soft Shells, Log-Rollers, Pipe-Layers, Woolly Heads, Silver Grays, Locofocos, Fire-Eaters, Adamantines, Free Soilers, Freedom Shriekers, Border Ruffians. They spring from a bon-mot or a retort. The log-cabin and hard-cider watchwords were born of a taunt, like the "Gueux" of the Netherlands.
"Thin the Tyrone, wid the Ould Rig'mint in touch, was sint maraudin' and prowlin' acrost the hills promishcuous an' unsatisfactory. 'Tis my privit opinion that a gin'ral does not know half his time fwhat to do wid three-quarthers his command. So he shquats on his hunkers an' bids thim run round an' round forninst him while he considhers on ut.
On that occasion I pulled him the best fruit, and left windfalls for the ranging, greedy hogs. And as I fed and scratched him he lay on his hunkers in great content, and made pleasant noises as he remembered the day before.
Not a word, plase your honour, only just telling herself to be quiet. Oh, mother, dearest, I'll kneel to plase you. Catty. Kneel! oh, to an ould woman like me no standing that! So here, on my hunkers I am, for your sake, Randal, and not a word, good or bad! Can woman do more? Mr. Carv. Now for your defence, Philip: be short, for mercy's sake! Phil.
He had been told, as we all are told in a thousand ways, that bad conduct brings sorrow to the world, and that pain and wretchedness are the only rewards of that behaviour which men call sin. And yet there he is, sitting on his hunkers near the stable, with God's stamp of failure all over his broken, battered body put there by Red Martin's own hands.
"Will ye wait here, Jamie, so that I can try an' get a meetin' held wi' the rest o' the men when they come alang?" "I will that, Andra," replied Jamie, taking the lighted lamp from his head, and sitting down at the corner on his "hunkers." "They're a' comin' hame anyway, for we're creelin' Tam Donaldson."
How can I have heart to work, when I come in expecting to find my dinner ready; but, instead of that, get her sitting upon her hunkers on the hearthstone; blowing at two or three green sticks with her apron, the pot hanging on the crook, without even the white horses on it.* She never puts a stitch in my clothes, nor in the childher's clothes, nor in her own, but lets them go to rags at once the divil's luck to her!
Word Of The Day