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He delivers the lessee's share of the harvest and retains the other half himself, together with the entire camote crop which is invariably grown immediately after the palay harvest. Unirrigated mountain camote lands are rented outright; the rent is usually paid in pigs. A sementera that produces a yield of 10 cargoes of camotes, valued at about six pesos, is worth a 2-peso pig as annual rental.
The master was sadly perplexed, and the colonel would not come to his aid; at last he bethought him of a better reason, which must succeed. "Yes, miss; but you see it's coming on night, and it's a rule that all ladies should go below at night," he said, in a grave tone. This made Ada fairly laugh outright. "Oh! but I intend to break through the rule, I can assure you.
The audience, made up of friends and patrons of Fernbridge and of townspeople, manifested toward the last a regrettable lack of interest. Some betrayed impatience, some fitfully slumbered in their seats, some even laughed outright at periods fraught with solemn meaning. One could but feel that one's efforts went unappreciated.
Sometimes he'd jolt me, the way he talked; and other times I'd have to turn away my head and cough, or shout at the horses, to keep from laughing outright. And once, when I was taken that way, he said 'What are you jerking your shoulders and coughing, and grunting, and going on that way for, dad? Why don't you tell me something? 'Tell you what, Jim? 'Tell me some talk.
'Good God! said Miss Bertram hastily to Sampson, ''t is that wretch Glossin's voice! If my father sees him, it will kill him outright! Sampson wheeled perpendicularly round, and moved with long strides to confront the attorney as he issued from beneath the portal arch of the ruin. 'Avoid ye! he said, 'avoid ye! wouldst thou kill and take possession?
Then single ships were chartered mostly under the American flag and when the owners, from fear of loss, refused the charter, or when outrageous conditions made chartering impossible, they were bought outright. The ships were consigned as blockade runners to a neutral port, and later either made direct for Germany or were taken in by a German ship of war.
"The bargain," I went on, "would be quite a fair one. I am offering to buy a thing which is not for sale therefore, I am willing to pay whatever would tempt the owner to part with it. I am not mixing up any sentiment in the affair. I want the brain of you for my scheme of life, and the laws of the quaintly civilized society to which we belong, do not permit me to hire it I must buy it outright.
When from thy boiling store, thou shalt fill each jar brim full by-and-by, dost thou think that thou wilt always kill outright the robber Fancy lurking within or sometimes only maim him and distort him! MR. GRADGRIND walked homeward from the school, in a state of considerable satisfaction. It was his school, and he intended it to be a model.
A hunting guard, fastened at the back of the hat brim and between two habit buttons is better than an elastic caught under the braids of your hair, for when an elastic does not snap outright, it is always trying to do so, and in the effort holds the hat so tightly on the head so as sometimes to give actual pain.
Bella's tragic expression vanished, and she laughed outright in sheer genuineness of mirthful recollection. "And when I was in such moods he would gravely look me over, gravely feel my pulse, examine my tongue, gravely dose me with castor oil, and gravely put me to bed early with hot stove-lids, and assure me that I'd feel better in the morning. Early to bed!
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