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As for style overriding the worst of indignities, has not Scotia given her poet to the slack dependant of the gallows-tree, who so rantingly played his jig and wheeled it round in the shadow of that institution? Style was his, he hit on the right style to top the situation, and perpetually will he slip his head out of the noose to dance the poet's verse.
O'Keeffe, "the dirty upstart would never have dared to put such an insult on his orphaned daughter, that he wouldn't, and if Dan O'Leary should hear of it which the saints forbid it's not the jig that his foot would be teaching Mr. O' Flanagan." The bathos of this anti-climax to martyrdom was too grotesque.
Whatever it was, it kept Gaspar staring down into the lean face of Sinclair for a long moment. Then he went resolutely back into the living room and faced Sally Bent; Jerry was already waiting outdoors. "I'm not going," said Gaspar slowly. "I'll stay." Sally cried out. "Oh, Jig, have you lost your nerve ag'in? Ain't you got no courage?" The schoolteacher sighed. "I'm afraid not, Sally.
He grinned with his white teeth and, without stopping in his fiddling, scraped his bow harshly across the strings, and then instantly changed the tune to a lively jig. Blackbeard jumped up into the air and clapped his heels together, giving, as he did so, a sharp, short yell. Then he began instantly dancing grotesquely and violently.
"What you shivering about?" asked the fat woman behind the counter, as she tied up his small package. "I feel like me skeleton was doin' a jig inside of me," said Sandy through chattering teeth. "Looks to me like you got a chill," said the fat woman. "You wait here, and I'll go git you some hot coffee."
A wedding at home means five and six-handed reels by the hour; and they do a man's legs no good when he's over forty." "True. Once at the woman's house you can hardly say nay to being one in a jig, knowing all the time that you be expected to make yourself worth your victuals."
In the years when Victorian standards and ideals began to dance an increasingly rapid jig before amazed lookers-on, who presently found themselves dancing as madly as the rest in these years, there lived in Mayfair, in a slice of a house, Robert Gareth-Lawless and his lovely young wife.
He certainly presented a most comical spectacle, dancing there before us, first on one leg and then on the other, his bulky frame swaying to and fro, like that of an elephant performing a jig, with the crackers exploding every instant, and his bald head surrounded apparently with a halo of smoke like a "nimbus."
It took him but a few minutes to make his selection and cram his pockets with them. Then he filled two Colts and two Winchesters and executed a short jig to work off the dangerous pressure of his exuberance. "But what an unholy lot of weapons," he soliloquized on his way back to Johnny. "An' they're all second-hand. Cannons, too an' machetes!" he exclaimed, suddenly understanding.
Nay, have I not seen my old friend Deacon W. D , a good man of the island, while listening to a sermon in the little church on the hill, reach out his hand over the door of his pew and "jig" imaginary squid in the aisle, to the intense delight of the young people, who did not realize that to catch good fish one must have good bait, the thing most on the deacon's mind.
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