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There had been nowhere else to take him to, for the men had disappeared the moment he was down, and the women were afraid to take him in. The police had come at last and they were now gone for the parish doctor. Mrs. Pincher was with the Father, and the poor dog was dead. Glory held her hand over her heart while Aggie told her story. "I follow you," she said. "Did you tell him I was here?
"I bid fifty thousand francs for one of Gauguin's paintings in Paris last year," Count Polonsky said as he claimed his game of écarté against Tati, the chief of Papara district. "I failed to get it, too. I bought many here for a few thousand francs each before that." "Blow me!" cried Pincher, the skipper of the Morning Star. "'E was a bleedin' ijit. I fetched 'im absinthe many a time in Atuona.
There was never such a dule countenance as his, dark naturally with his Welsh and Tahitian blood, and shaded by the gloom of his soul. He looked regretfully at Captain Pincher. "You are only repeating the untruthful assertion of that clergyman," he said accusingly. "He put it in a pamphlet in French. My people have had to do with Easter Island for forty years.
The great friend and playmate of Bruin, was Pincher a very accomplished, smooth terrier, capital dog to go with the hounds, and to kill all sorts of obnoxious animals. If the two appeared to be asleep, and we exclaimed "Cat!" or "Rat!" in one instant they were on their legs, seeking in every direction for their game.
Thus these two companions in misfortune suffered together on die last day of the year 1722, Edmund Neal being then about thirty years of age, and Pincher about twenty-six. The discovery of a spring of mineral water in the garden attracted general attention and the place soon became a place of popular resort. The Jacobite rising of 1715. The Life of CHARLES WEAVER, a Murderer
Even Bible-Back Murray, who had a reputation as a pincher, had suddenly become prodigal with his money and was working day and night, trying to tap a hidden copper deposit. He had caught the contagion, the lure of tremendous profits, and he was risking his all on the venture. What would he have to say now if his diamond drill tapped nothing and a hobo struck it rich over at Queen Creek?
You've no idea how many buttons there are on a suit. Dora counted them. There are twenty-four, counting the little ones on the sleeves that don't undo. Alice was trying to teach Pincher to beg; but he has too much sense when he knows you've got nothing in your hands, and the rest of us were roasting potatoes under the fire. We had made a fire on purpose, though it was rather warm.
Pincher would have never given up his mouthful of leg if F had not called him off, for it seemed impossible to fire the revolver whilst the dog held on. This change of tactics was much against Pincher's judgment, and he kept rushing furiously in between F and the boar.
Let's play his fiddle before he comes back. I've got that last exercise beautifully only my little finger is so beastly short. If I'd been whipped when I was a kid it might have grown there it goes! Hi, Pincher, after him!" The nurse rose and moistened her patient's lips with water. "How is he, nurse?" asked Brigit shortly. "His throat's better, miss my lady. But he's very weak.
"Feel?" said Jack, who was struggling through the crowd, which was dense here. "It feels nothing. It's in a bottle. Come along!" "All right, Madame," said Eleanor, smiling. "We'll wait for you outside." We next proceeded to the photographer's, where Jack and Madame were photographed together with Pincher.
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