United States or Australia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
No good bred horse ever yet carried a fine tail 'tis your scrubby-tailed horses that are your out-and-outers. Did you ever hear of Syntax, brother? That tail of his puts me in mind of Syntax. Well, I say nothing more, have your own way all I wonder at is, that a horse like him was ever brought to such a fair of dog cattle as this."
With British sea-power beginning to reassert its age-long superiority over all possible rivals, with practically all constitutional points of dispute conceded to the revolutionists, and with the certain knowledge that by no means the majority of all Americans were absolute anti-British out-and-outers, he thought it no time to dismember the Empire.
"Isn't Tom Steele a Protesthant himself, John?" "Well, I believe he is. So's Gray, and more of 'em too; but there's a difference between them and the downright murdhering Tory set. Poor Tom doesn't throuble the Church much; but you'll be all for Protesthants now, Martin, when you've your new brother-in-law. Barry used to be one of your raal out-and-outers!"
He preferred his own country runts to the Scotch kine, but said upon the whole, though a Welshman, he must give the preference to the merched of Northampton over those of Wrexham, for free and easy demeanour, notwithstanding that in that point which he said was the most desirable point in females, the lasses of Wrexham were generally considered out-and-outers.
MR. MAYOR. "You observe, sir, that I did not ask the members whom we return to parliament to accompany us. Do better without 'em. You know they are both in Opposition, out-and-outers." MR. EGERTON. "It is a misfortune which the Government cannot remember when the question is whether the trade of the town itself is to be served or injured." MR. MAYOR. "Well, I guess you speak handsome, sir.
MR. MAYOR. "You observe, sir, that I did not ask the members whom we return to parliament to accompany us. Do better without 'em. You know they are both in Opposition, out-and-outers." MR. EGERTON. "It is a misfortune which the Government cannot remember when the question is whether the trade of the town itself is to be served or injured." MR. MAYOR. "Well, I guess you speak handsome, sir.
I am a little afraid that your out-and-outers in politics, religion, love of liberty, and other human excellences, are somewhat apt to make these circuits in their eccentric orbits, and to come out somewhere quite near the places from which they started.
I know what out-and-outers they are to sleep, but it's too much to expect that they will have both eyes shut at a time like this.
Foker's pursuits and pleasures lay on the table by his side when he woke. Ah! how faint all these pleasures seemed now. What did he care for Conkey Sam or the Worcestershire Nobber? What for the French prints ogling him from all sides of the room; those regular stunning slap-up out-and-outers? And Calverley spelling bad, and calling him Hokey-fokey, confound her impudence!
Why, she has two brothers bush-rangers, regular out-and-outers. There's a thousand on each of their heads. 'Good gad! says Starlight, 'you don't say so! Poor girl! What a most extraordinary country! You meet with surpwises every day, don't you? 'It's a pity Sir Ferdinand isn't here, said the Commissioner. 'I believe she's an acquaintance of his.
Word Of The Day