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There wasn't no bones broke." "Hold your tongue, sir." "Cert'n'y, sir." "And come here." Tom Jecks stepped forward obsequiously. "Look, the tin sticks all round fast into the tail as if it were a rabbit trap." "Ay, sir, it do; and if I might say so, they managed it very cleverly." "Cleverly?" "Yes, sir.
When the biography of the Celebrity is written, and I have no doubt it will be some day, may his biographer kindly draw a veil over that instant in his life when he was tenderly and obsequiously raised by Mr. Cooke from the trap in the floor of the Maria's cabin. It is sometimes the case that a good fright will heal a feud.
"Wait here for me, I tell you," he repeated. The doorkeeper obsequiously opened the door to the two unsteady carousers, for whom the fiddler drew back, still playing. Thus Sophia was left side by side with the vermilion cloak. She was quite helpless. All the pride of a married woman had abandoned her.
During the day the animals obsequiously followed the shadow of the smallest tree as it moved round the stem with the diurnal roll; and when the milkers came they could hardly stand still for the flies.
At the appearance of Peschiera, three of these men sprang into the boat, and got ready their oars. The fourth carefully re-adjusted a plank thrown from the boat to the wharf, and offered his arm obsequiously to Peschiera. The count was the first to enter, and, humming a gay opera air, took his place by the helm.
His parents wanted to know whether anything could be done. Mr. Jacobs turned to Philip. "You'd better take this case, Carey. It's a subject you ought to know something about." Philip flushed, all the more because the surgeon spoke obviously with a humorous intention, and his brow-beaten dressers laughed obsequiously.
A keeper came and whispered a few words to her. "No; I have already said no," answered she, roughly. The priest heard these words, raised his eyes toward heaven, clasped his hands, and disappeared. "Madame, we are going to set out; will you take something?" said the executioner, obsequiously. "Thank you; to-night I will take a drink of sawdust."
She read and reread it, looked at the Jew, read it over again and asked: "What does it mean?" He obsequiously explained: "I will tell you. Your son needed a little money, and as I knew that you are a good mother, I lent him a trifle to help him out." Jeanne was trembling. "But why did he not ask me?"
By obsequiously humouring their prejudices he quelled the clamour which was rising at Edinburgh; but the effect of his timid caution was that a far more formidable clamour soon rose in the south of the island against the bigotry of the schismatics who domineered in the north, and against the pusillanimity of the government which had not dared to withstand that bigotry.
Trencher followed leisurely to where a captain of waiters stood guard at the opening in the dividing partition between the lounge and the restaurant. Before him at his approach this functionary bowed. "Alone, sir?" he inquired obsequiously. "Yes and no," replied Trencher; "I'm alone now but I'll be back in half an hour with three others.
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