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"That is what the people of the Tokelau Islands call O le fati le galu the last great wave, that gathering itself together far out on the ocean, rushes to the reef, and curling high up as the mast of a ship, falls and shakes the land from one side to the other."
The gal said, 'Do you understand? to-morrow. Then the swell chap, says he, 'Do you promise? and the gal, she answers back, 'Yes, at noon. Then they parted. She went off to the Rue Hachette, and the masher tumbled into his wheelbox. The jarvey cracked his whip, and off they went in a brace of shakes. Now hand over them five francs."
"We must resign! heaven his great soul does claim In storms as loud as his immortal fame; His dying groans, his last breath shakes our isle, And trees uncut fall for his funeral pile: About his palace their broad roots are tost Into the air; so Romulus was lost! New Rome in such a tempest missed her king, And from obeying fell to worshipping.
Moon never proceeds to business without regaling his jury with good brandy and high-flavored cigars. In this instance he has bustled about and got together six very solemn and seriously-disposed gentlemen, who proceed to deliberate. "A mystery hangs over the case," says one. A second shakes his head, and views the body as if anxious to get away.
"There they are!" said Dalrymple, suddenly. "There's the wedding party. Per Bacco! but our little bride is charming!" "And the bridegroom is a handsome specimen of rusticity." "Yes a genuine pastoral pair, like a Dresden china shepherd and shepherdess. See, the girl is looking up in his face he shakes his head. She is urging him to dance, and he refuses!
The schoolmaster had felt himself called upon to participate in the strife, but being in the anomalous position of owing his official obligations to the minister and his convictions to the side championed by the weaver, he had contented him with sundry grave shakes of his big head, which shakes, being subject to diverse interpretations, were the least compromising expressions of opinion which his genius could suggest to him.
But Butheita is a strange child! When a handsome suitor comes, and I beg her to follow him to his tent, she shakes her head, rejects his gifts, and laughs at his sweet words. 'You are ugly! says she, laughing. 'I will love only the handsomest of men, and him only will I follow to his tent. That is what Butheita says, sarechsme!" "And that is what she should say," replied Mohammed, smiling.
Alice Mount had only just spoken when the latch was lifted by Margaret Thurston. "Pray you, let me come in and get my breath!" said she; "I'm that frighted I can scarce stand." "Come in, neighbour, and welcome," replied Alice; and Rose set a chair for Margaret. "What ails you? is there a mad bull about, or what?" "Mad bull, indeed! A mad bull's no great shakes. Not to him, any way."
'Tis the nature of such to hate and envy the strong, and conspire their ruin; and the conspiracy succeeds very well, and everything presages the satisfactory overthrow of the great victim; until one day Gulliver rouses himself, shakes off the little vermin of an enemy, and walks away unmolested.
Whether they got the name from their movements, which are swift and antic, or from the shouting they make about the turn of the tide, so that all Aros shakes with it, is more than I can tell. The truth is, that in a south-westerly wind, that part of our archipelago is no better than a trap.
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