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But he won't ask my opinion first. He will strew your limbs, Robert, over this delightful terrace." "Michael's train is late," said Lady Ashbridge, hearing the stable clock strike. "He should have been here before this." Barbara had still a word to say, and disregarded this quencher.
Harris, that it's brought reg'lar, and draw'd mild." Not but occasionally even that modest "sip of liquor" she finds so far "settling heavy on the chest" as to necessitate, every now and then, a casual dram by way of extra quencher. It was so arranged in the Reading that, immediately upon the completion of Mrs.
At the bottom, however, there is a pleasant public; whereat we must really take a modest quencher, for the down air is provocative of thirst. So we pull up under an old oak which stands before the door. "What is the name of your hill, landlord?" "Blawing STWUN Hill, sir, to be sure." "And of your house? I can't make out the sign."
Forty years at least had elapsed since the Peruvian mines had been the death of Mr Pipchin; but his relict still wore black bombazeen, of such a lustreless, deep, dead, sombre shade, that gas itself couldn't light her up after dark, and her presence was a quencher to any number of candles.
'Here I rose I was rather excited and said that I hoped the reverend speaker was not deserting the sacred principle of compulsory temperance? Would the speaker allow people freedom to drink? All other issues were unimportant compared with that of freedom, except the interest of depriving a poor man of his beer. To catch smallpox was a Briton's birthright, but not to take a modest quencher.
To be sure, the “Daughter of Saturn” was tried for conspiring with two other persons to swindle an old and wealthy gentleman out of seventeen hundred dollars, and the “Queen of the Seven Mysteries” was dispossessed by a constable for non-payment of rent; and these untoward circumstances may have acted as a “modest quencher” on the then growing disposition to indulge in fantastic and romantic appellations.
He strolled off on a tour of inspection. After a time he lighted upon the St Austin's Gym Instructor, whom he had not seen since they had parted that morning, the one on his way to the dressing-room, the other to the refreshment-bar for a modest quencher. 'Well, Mr Graham? 'Hullo, Dawkins. What time does this show start? Do you know when the middle-weights come on?
"'Awful dry Wet we're having, sez he," he murmured, "'the place is alive with dead cattle. 'Fact, sez he, 'cattle's dying this year that never died before." Then remarking that "this sort of thing" wasn't "exactly a thirst quencher," he followed up the creek bank into a forest of cabbage-tree palms tall, feathery-crested palms everywhere, taller even that the forest trees; but never a sign of water.
Nearly always somethin' doing in little old Epitaph," answered the public quencher of thirsts, polishing the glass top of the bar with a cloth. "Playing with the lid off back there, ain't they?" The sheriff's nod indicated the distant faro-table. "That's right, I guess. Only blue chips go." "It's Wolf Leroy that Mexican-looking fellow there," Hawkes explained in a whisper.
There was one point which Mr Swiveller deemed it unnecessary to enlarge upon, and that was the fact of the modest quencher, which, by reason of its intrinsic strength and its coming close upon the heels of the temperate beverage he had discussed at dinner, awakened a slight degree of fever, and rendered necessary two or three other modest quenchers at the public-house in the course of the evening.
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