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"I am a scout," said Paul. "Be you a scout? Wal, I hope you will run across Old Abe Linkum. If you do, jest take his skelp for me." "Wal, if I cotch him, I reckon I'll skelp him," said Paul, flourishing his knife, as if he was ready for such bloody work. "The Yanks are a set of vagabonds; they are the meanest critters on airth," said the woman. "They'll hang you if they cotch you."
Should he violate the laws, he is to be forsaken by his meanest subject, and to be recognized no longer as prince." William of Orange always recognized these truths, but his scheme of government contemplated a permanent chief, and as it was becoming obvious that the Spanish sovereign would soon be abjured, it was necessary to fix upon a substitute.
"They are the greatest of all; for the meanest peasant has an advantage over the prince in the point on which we most desire to be free that of the choice in his partner in life. He has none, but must submit to the wishes of his people, and trammelled by custom, must take to his bed one whom he cannot take to his heart." "Well, by your account there is nobody free, unless it be Liberty herself."
Its effect was decidedly contrary to that which Marlanx must have anticipated. Instead of collapsing, Beverly sprang to her feet with energy and life in every fiber. Her eyes were flashing brightly, her body quivering with the sensations of battle. "That awful old wretch!" she cried, to Aunt Fanny's amazement. "He is the meanest human being in all the world.
See it as they go out to the barn in the morning; see it when they're shutting up at night. 'Twill make a difference even to them that never go. GRANDMOTHER: Now, Silas don't be hasty. SILAS: Hasty? It's been company to me for years. SILAS: Well, say, I'd sit up with a sick horse that belonged to the meanest man unhung. But there were stars that night had never been there before.
Thou meanest to offer to my girl not only high rank and great wealth, but, which should be of infinitely more value to her, the heart and the hand of an honest man. I believe thee to be an honest man, my lord." "In this matter, Mr. Fay, at any rate, I am." "In all matters as I believe; and how should I, being such a one as I am, not be willing to give my girl to such a suitor as thee?
I have no friend in the world who can help me but thee. 'No friend! What meanest thou, Dorothy? said lord Herbert, taking her two clasped hands between his. 'There is my Margaret and my father! 'Alas, my lord! they mean well by me, but they do not believe me; and if your lordship believe me no more than they, I must go from Raglan. Yet believing me, I know not how you could any more help me.
'I have looked into her face with solemn awe, he told Miss Ophelia, 'when she pointed to the stars in the evening and said to me, "See there, Auguste! the poorest, meanest soul on our place will be living when all those stars are gone for ever will live as long as God lives!" 'Then why don't you free your slaves? asked Miss Ophelia, with a woman's practical and incisive logic.
"I speak, sire," said Warwick, calmly, though the veins in his forehead swelled, and his dark countenance was much flushed "I speak openly of that which hath been done nobly; and this truth has ceased to be matter of council, since the meanest citizen who has ears and eyes ere this must know for what purpose the ambassadors of King Louis arrive in England with your Highness's representative."
Even had all been plain sailing, I do not hint that I should have drawn back. Smuggling is one of the meanest of crimes, for by that we rob a whole country pro rata, and are therefore certain to impoverish the poor: to smuggle opium is an offence particularly dark, since it stands related not so much to murder, as to massacre.
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