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When he died, he was as mild as a spring lamb with mint sauce on it. "Now, my dear, some women would have told him what they was doin', either after he got to likin' the cookin' or when he was on his death-bed an' couldn't help himself, but I never did.
"Well, 'Kitty Keehoty, wild horses wouldn't have drug it out of me to anybody else; but I don't mind lettin' on to you, just you, that I'd admire to be one. I'd like it real well. But, that's nuther here nor there. Likin' things an' havin' 'em is as different as chalk an' cheese. An' here we be to the woods. The best chestnut-trees is yender, the best shellbarks t'other way.
The commercial and industrial enterprises of the country can only thrive after likin is abolished and only then can new sources of revenue be obtained. This measure will form the fundamental factor of our industrial and economical development.
I see him, said the old gentleman, with a moisture in his eye, which could not be mistaken, 'I see him gettin', every journey, more and more groggy; I says to Samivel, "My boy! the Grey's a-goin' at the knees;" and now my predilictions is fatally werified, and him as I could never do enough to serve or show my likin' for, is up the great uniwersal spout o' natur'.
We're needing another man a man of your general size and character." Harlan grinned. "I'm thankin' you. An' I sure appreciate what you've said. You've been likin' me so much that you tried to frame up on me about sendin' Lane Morgan out." "That's business," laughed Deveny. "You were an unknown quantity, then." "But not now eh?" returned Harlan, his eyes gleaming with a cold humor.
Sir Edward Grey " Bursts of exclamation greeted the name, and Macalister grinned slightly. "You'll no be likin' him," he said. "An' I can weel understan' it." The questioner went off on a different line. "Haf your soldiers know," he asked, "that the German fleet every day a town of England bombard?" Macalister stared at him. "Havers!" he said abruptly.
"I said it," was Whinnie's laconic retort. "But what right had you to " He cut me short with a grunt that was almost disrespectful. "I not only said it," he triumphantly affirmed, "but what's more to my likin', I made her believe it, leavin' her with the mockin' laugh dead in her eyes and her face as white as yon table-cover, white to the lips!" Sunday the Twenty-seventh
Stuart first came to our village he again took up his aul' habits o' industry, an' for a long time would'na taste drink ava; but when the excitement o' the sudden change had worn off, his aul' likin' for strong drink cam' back wi' fu' force, an' he, puir weak man had'na the strength o' mind to withstand it.
Stone flared back at him: "What are you over here eating their bacon for?" "Not f'r any likin' I've got f'r 'em," retorted Bradley, "n'r f'r any o' their pets." The old driver got away without a fight, but he had little to spare. Van Horn rode off presently with Stone, and Doubleday returned to the house, where Kate was sitting with Belle.
"Ay, an' we're a' coontin' on gangin' there; but it's a prood thing to hae yer banes put awa' in Greyfriars, ance ye're through wi' 'em!" "Nae doubt the gude auld man would rather be alive on the Pentland braes than dead in Greyfriars." "Ay," the farmer admitted. "He was fair fond o' the hills, an' no' likin' the toon. An', moil, he was a wonder wi' the lambs.
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