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We shall be lords of all we survey, and there will be no one to interfere with our proceedings." "What about Nero and Pincher?" asked a small rat with a squeaky voice. "What will become of them, Brother Doublechops?" "When provisions run short they will to a certainty be killed and eaten by the bipeds," answered the stout orator.
I reckon it can't be done!" replied Pincher not in words, but by a wag of his tail. "Well, how do you get 'em down then, cap'n?" "We cut a place right 'round 'em: that's girdlin' the tree, and then, ever so long after, it dies and drops down itself." "O, my stars!" cried Peter, "I want to know!" "No, you DON'T want to know, Peter, for I just told you!
"If we can but commit him if we can but make him vote for Pincher," said the General, "my peerage is secure. Hawksby and Crampton as good as told me so." The point had been urged upon Mr. Scully repeatedly and adroitly. "Is not Pincher a more experienced man than Macabaw?" would Sir George say to his guest over their wine. Scully allowed it.
In my schooldays I would dream of becoming a rich and influential man and wreaking vengeance upon my brutal teachers, more especially upon Shmerl the Pincher and "the Cossack," the man whose little daughter, Sarah-Leah, had been the heroine of my first romance. I now rushed after Shmerl, greatly excited, one of the feelings in my heart being a keen desire to help him
We could seldom procure the loan of a good pig-dog, and after one excursion with a certain dog of the name of "Pincher," I preferred going out by ourselves.
When it was gone and the women on the doorsteps could see no more of the fine carriage of the great lady who had brought the odour of perfume and the rustle of silk into the dingy court, and Mrs. Pincher had turned back to the house with red eyes and her widow's cap awry, John Storm told himself that everything was for the best. The last link with Glory was broken! Thank God for that!
By Madame's desire she was now led to the "bazaar," where she bought a collar for Pincher, two charming china boxes, in the shape of dogs' heads, for Eleanor and her mother, a fan for me, a walking-stick for Monsieur le Pasteur, and some fishing-floats for Clement. By this time some children had gathered round us.
The boy would not taste food till the dog's foot had been bandaged, though, all the while his grandmother was doing up the Wound, it seemed to Horace that she must be thinking of something else, or she would pity Pincher a great deal more. The cold dinner which she set out on the table was very tempting, and he ate heartily; but after every mouthful he kept asking, "What could be the matter?
In one I saw the large pincher of the crab so drawn back as to form a door to the shell as perfect as the original. When he felt growing pains the hermit-crab unhooked himself from his ceiling and migrated in search of a more commodious dwelling.
Lord Tottenham roared in his fury, 'Good old man be something or othered. 'Call the dog off. So Oswald said, 'It is a dangerous task but who would hesitate to do an act of true bravery? And all the while Pincher was worrying and snarling, and Lord Tottenham shouting to us to get the dog away.
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