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"Oh, that's all my eye and Betty Martin," she returned in the vernacular of her youth, "I grant you there's a lot of soft-sawder about the fellers down here, but they ain't in it wi' us up in Yorkshire." "Where do you come from, Mrs. Spencer? I'm a dalesman myself; Wensleydale's my native land." "I'm from Thirsk, sir.
Old squatters whom he knew, respectable men who had been in the colony before he was born, had advised him to be on good terms with the Brownbies. "You needn't ask them to your house, or go to them, but just soft-sawder them when yon meet," an old gentleman had said to him.
His manners were gentlemanly, though he had a remarkably small amount of soft-sawder about him; and all sincerity himself, he could not believe that people were speaking falsely to him, and was at times rather apt to come out roundly with the truth, to the astonishment of those who heard him; so that he was clearly not fitted to be a courtier.
John, notwithstanding, had a very circuitous way of confessing the fact of having taken into his family, by this arbitrary system of wedlock, no end of people; still he accused Jonathan of using his soft-sawder for the same purpose.
Howsomedevers, he'll stand no nonsense; and when he puts his foot down, you may as well give up, as you might sooner soft-sawder a trenail into a two-inch plank as get over him and shirk your duty!
"What's all that soft-sawder about?" said Tom Bowles, somewhat falteringly. "Simply this: if in the fight between us I beat you, I ask you to promise before your neighbours that you will not by word or deed molest or interfere again with Miss Jessie Wiles." "Eh!" roared Tom. "Is it that you are after her?"
She wanted to treat me to the colonies, and had up the parson to talk soft-sawder and make out that a boundless continent was the place for a lad like me.
You only consider the hounds as a fleeting object at which to ride; the fox as a necessary evil, without which all this 'rasping' and 'bruising' and 'cutting down, as you call it in your ridiculous jargon, cannot be attained. Why, then, do you waste so much energy, and money, and civility, and 'soft-sawder, to preserve the vulpine race?
I guess it's my opportunity to get along here without her, and let her stay." "Incorruptible! Well you're a good girl, Amy. I must come down to plain soft-sawder. Put some of those things together prettily, as you know how, and drive over and take them to Sylvie Argenter this afternoon, will you?" "Fish and fruit and sirloins!" "Amy, you're an aggravator!" "No. I'm only grammatical.
"Oh, don't I, though!" snarled Dakota Joe. "I know who to thank for my bust-up you and that Hammond man. Yes, sir-ree!" "You are quite wrong," Ruth said, calmly. "But nothing I can say will convince you, I presume." "You can't soft-sawder me, if that's what you mean," and Dakota Joe absorbed another mighty mouthful. Ruth could not fail to wonder if he ever chewed his food.
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