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'You see we have to observe regular habits here; and I couldn't be seen at the Cock-and-Bottle just now. 'O dammy, then don't come, your reverence. Perhaps you won't mind standing treat for those who can be seen there? 'Not a penny, said the younger firmly. 'You've had enough already. 'Thank you for nothing. By the bye, who was that spindle-legged, shoe- buckled parson feller we met by now?
Any man can think enough to fasten materials together into the form of a shoe, and to make them vary in size according to a regular gradation of numbers; but this is all he can do unless he exercises his Imagination.
James, tell the cook she ought to be ashamed of herself to send up such things. They're as tough as leather, and burned besides as black as my shoe, I do declare." "Yes, 'm." And James departed to incense the cook with the unsoftened message.
The king could bear the sight no more, and, besides, now that the healing ointment in the shoe had been removed the pain in his foot was as bad as ever; he gave a sudden cry, staggered, and fell over the bulwarks into the water. In an instant the river was covered with bobbing heads all swimming their fastest towards the king, who had been carried far down by the swift current.
Barkis a phenomenon of respectability. When we were all in a bustle outside the door, I found that Mr. Peggotty was prepared with an old shoe, which was to be thrown after us for luck, and which he offered to Mrs. Gummidge for that purpose. 'No. It had better be done by somebody else, Dan'l, said Mrs. Gummidge.
It was not a place of which Stead was fond, as the smith was known to be strong for the Covenant, and he could not help wishing that the shoe had come off nearer to his good friend Smith Blane.
Native tracks about; I am surprised we see none of them; we are passing old fires constantly. Latitude, 28 degrees 1 minute 32 seconds. Monday, 6th June, Mount Younghusband. The horses being some distance off, and my horse requiring a shoe, I was unable to make a start until 10 o'clock, on a bearing of 307 degrees 45 minutes, passing Mount Kingston on the south-west side.
The sun had been hot as it beat down upon the whiteness of the sand, and the girl had crept under a sage-bush for shelter from it. The pain in her ankle was sickening. She had removed her shoe and bound the ankle about with a handkerchief soaked with half of her bottle of witch-hazel, and so, lying quiet, had fallen asleep, too exhausted with pain and anxiety to stay awake any longer.
The chronicler from whom we derive this anecdote is particularly careful to tell us that it was a walking shoe and not a kid slipper which she made use of; by which we are to understand, that she was no ways tender of the stroke. * Judge James' Sketch of Marion. The Horrys were both able officers. Hugh was a particular favorite of Marion. For his brother he had large esteem.
Then he clapped his hands smartly together and cried out: "Bless my shoe buttons!" "Have you seen them?" asked Tom eagerly. "Was your boat one with a red arrow painted on the bow?" asked Mr. Damon in turn. "It was!" and the lad was now almost as excited as was his friend. "Then I've seen it and, what's more, this morning! Bless my spark plug, I've seen it!"
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