United States or United Arab Emirates ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And he retired, with a delicacy that all felt, to his own apartment. In the afternoon the sky cleared, and as the party assembled on the lawn to admire the view which was now disclosed, the pedlar suddenly appeared. "The rig'lars must be out from below," he remarked, with great emphasis; "horse are on the road; there will soon be fighting near us."
"For a bit or so only I mane for a bit or so," said the washerwoman; "but Major Dunwoodie turned you, and so you licked the rig'lars. But the captain it was that fell, and I'm thinking that there's no better rider going; so, sargeant, it's the cart will be convanient.
His roving eye, however, soon caught a glimpse of these new objects in the view, and he sprang up with alacrity, gazing intently towards the water. He changed his place, glanced his eye with marked uneasiness on Harper, and then said with great emphasis "The rig'lars must be out from below." "Why do you think so?" inquired Captain Wharton, eagerly.
How often have I told him, that if he did nothing but peddle, and would put his gains to use, and get married, so that things at home could be kept within doors, and leave off his dealings with the rig'lars, and all incumberments, that he would soon become an excellent liver. Sergeant Hollister would be glad to hold a candle to him, indeed!"
I fed the horse with my own hands, the day; and the last male that he ate was of my own cooking. Och hone! och hone! that Captain Jack should live to be killed by the rig'lars!" "John! my dear John!" said the surgeon, with convulsive sobs, "thy hour has come, and many a more prudent man survives thee; but none better, nor braver.
Birch started, and certainly made an indication of sudden flight; but recollecting himself, he stood, in sullen silence, until the stranger was within a few yards of them. "'Tis friends," said the fellow, clubbing his gun, but apparently afraid to venture nearer. "You had better retire," said Birch; "here are rig'lars at hand.
Flanagan, that great confusion might be carried into the ranks of the enemy thereby, this very day." "It's but little that the mare would go, and the rig'lars firing at her," grumbled Betty, from under her blanket.
"We're all in the dark here," he remarked, "and might stay so to the end of time, without some one to be relied on, to tell us the news. Major Willoughby is a fine man" Joel meant morally, not physically "but he's a king's officer, and nat'rally feels inclined to make the best of things for the rig'lars.
"I doctored him mostly with yarbs," said the housekeeper, smiling, as if conscious of error. "With simples," returned the surgeon. "They are safer in the hands of the unlettered than more powerful remedies; but why had you no regular attendant?" "I'm sure Harvey has suffered enough already from having so much concerns with the rig'lars," replied the housekeeper.
"'Drot me if I know a better way than to jump slick aboard her, returned Desborough musingly; 'forty genuine Kaintucks ought to swallow her up, crew and all. "'I guess they would, returned his companion, 'but they are not Kaintucks, but only rig'lars; and then agin if they are discovered one spry cannon shot might sink her; and if the eagles go to the bottom, we shall lose our fiftieth.
Word Of The Day