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With a pair of pincers he twisted the nail into the shape of a hook, and very soon filed, out a barb, and some notches in the shank with which to secure the line. In the course of two or three hours he had produced a dozen capital hooks. "Now we may go fishing," said he. "We may catch as many fish as we can want, but we should be the better of a canoe." "Or a raft, eh, Harry?
"I feel a little overcome my head swims I am oppressed with nausea I must go below." "How the goney swallered it all, didn't he?" said Mr. Slick, with great glee. "Hante he a most a beautiful twist that feller? How he gobbled it down, tank, shank and flank at a gulp, didn't he. Oh! he is a Turkey and no mistake, that chap. But see here, Squire; jist look through the skylight.
Cicely is too long in the shank. Bess's shoulders are too broad. Alack! God help me! I will do what I can' and she waved her hands disconsolately. Cold, fatigue, and her maimed arm made Katharine waver on her feet. This white-haired woman's panic seemed to her grotesque and disgusting. 'Why, the magister lies, she said. 'I am no such friend of Privy Seal's.
With his palms turned upward, he held in each hand a branch of the twig in such a way that the shank pointed upward; but every few moments, as he halted over a certain spot, the twig would gradually bend downwards until it had assumed the likeness of a Y in its natural position, where it would remain pointing to something in the ground beneath.
There is a record of a woman of twenty-eight who was suddenly surprised by some one entering her chamber at the moment she was introducing a cedar pencil into her vagina. With the purpose of covering up her act and dissembling the woman sat down, and the shank of the wood was pushed through the posterior wall of the vagina into the peritoneal cavity.
It consisted of some warm water with the shank not the drumstick, but the shank and foot of a fowl in it. This aroused his interest, and twice again he was present when a chicken soup prescribed appeared at the camp. On both occasions he stands ready so to testify under oath he found the same foot and shank in it, but nothing else recalling chicken.
"I know you did, Shank," returned the dying man, with a faint smile. "How it will fare with me hereafter I know not. I've but one word to say when I get there, and that is guilty! I I loved your sister, Shank. Ay you never guessed it. I only tell you now that I may send her a message. Tell her that the words she once said to me about a Saviour have never left me.
There were other gleams of light, however, one of the brightest of them being that May, her only daughter, was loving and sympathetic or, as she sometimes expressed it, "as good as gold." But there was also a very dark spot in her life: Shank, her only son, was beginning to show a tendency to tread in his father's steps.
When I put on my new elk-hide knickerbockers with cuffs of dressed buckskin laced around my calves, and my beautiful soft buckskin shirt tucked in at the waist I began to feel like a real Nimrod, but after I added my “Moo-loch-Capo,” the shooting jacket with elk-teeth buttons, pulled a pair of shank moccasins over my feet and donned a cap made of lynx skin, I was as happy as a child with its Christmas stocking.
"What is the name of this friend whom you prevented from swimming off to us?" "Shank Leather." "Is he a very great friend of yours?" "Very. We have been playmates from childhood, and school-fellows till now." "What is he? his profession, I mean?" "Nothing at present.
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