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But you will not tell me; and, after all, as far as your verses are concerned, the surname is nowise germane to the matter. As poor Sheridan said, it is too formal to be registered in love's calendar." And again: "Tristram, I hope Rosamond and your Fair Girl of France will not pull caps; but I cannot forbear the temptation of introducing your Roxana and Statira to an admiring public."
I hesitated to pull forth the barbed head of the spear, and instead broke off the shaft, leaving the point buried in the soft throat, from which a crimson line extended over the white shoulder. A short distance ahead we came to a projecting boulder, and behind that we gently laid her on the hard rock. Neither of us had spoken a word.
A fellow can get himself made a captain by pull, or a major by luck, or a colonel by desk-work, or a general by having a fine martial figure, but to get yourself made a sergeant, by Gosh, you've got to show the stuff. You've got to be a man. You've got to have " "Are you going to tell her?" interrupted the Bonnie Lassie who had been sent for to share the news.
They are a very fine hard Fish, and of good Taste. They are about two Foot long, or better. They ought to be scaled as soon as taken; otherwise you must pull off the Skin and Scales, when boiled; the Skin being the choicest of the Fish. The Meat, which is white and large, is dress'd with this Fish. They haunt the Inlets and Water near the Ocean; and are killed with the Harpoon, and Fishgig.
They might not pull with us, while we have been so much together that there is no fear of our having any disagreement. I think we have all pretty well settled that it will be much better to act by ourselves, instead of joining any of the corps that are sure to be formed down there.
I may be a brute, you know, but being the Only Real Friend, the recipient of the confidences of one of these egotistical weaklings, ghost or body, is beyond my physical endurance. I got up briskly. 'Don't you brood on these things too much, I said. 'The thing you've got to do is to get out of this get out of this sharp. You pull yourself together and TRY. 'I can't, he said.
And if the Murchison Stove and Furnace Works siren stands out of that occasion I'll break in and pull it myself." "It won't stand out," Stella assured him. "I'll attend to it. Don't you worry." "I suppose you had a lovely time, Mr Murchison?" said Mrs Williams, gently tilting to and fro in a rocking-chair, with her pretty feet in their American shoes well in evidence.
The coast was almost everywhere so steep that we had several times to pull many miles before we could find space enough to pitch our two tents: one night we slept on large round boulders, with putrefying sea-weed between them; and when the tide rose, we had to get up and move our blanket-bags.
My hands are vulgarly unused to gloves, and I pull them off; then going up the step I notice that my hands do not go at all well with the clothes I am wearing, and I put on my gloves again. Then I ring the bell. "Froken Elisabeth? Yes, would you wait a moment?" Froken Elisabeth comes out. "Goddag. You wished to speak to.... Oh, is it you?" I had brought a parcel from her mother. Varsaagod.
"How do you know he does?" "Don't scold at me, Penny. You you " "I'm not scolding at you. There! What a goose you are, Splutter! Don't, for heaven's sake, go to whimpering on the street! I didn't say anything to make you feel that way. Come, pull yourself together." "I'm not whimpering." "No, of course not; but then you look as if you were on the edge of it. What a little idiot!"
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