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But that was summat to do, an' didn't think o' dyin'. Now I'm sick to go 'Ome go 'Ome go 'Ome! No, I ain't mammy-sick, because my uncle brung me up, but I'm sick for London again; sick for the sounds of 'er, an' the sights of 'er, and the stinks of 'er; orange peel and hasphalte an' gas comin' in over Vaux'all Bridge.
You know how a smell will start sudden in the bush on a hot, still day, an' then seem to take a spell, an' then get to work agen stronger than ever. You might be clost alongside of a horse that has been dead a fortnight an' smell nothin' particular till you start to walk away, an' the further you go the worse it stinks. It seems to smell most round in a circle of a hundred yards or so.
If Rustler is loyal to his plighted word, you have nobody against you but Wilkinson and old Jenkins of All Souls a tough customer, I admit, though what a Stinks man like him has to do at All Souls I don't know. 'I say, this is hard on the other sportsmen! What ought I to do? Should I tell them? 'You can't: you have no official knowledge of their existence. You only know through Miss McCabe.
Fie! to the devil with this turnip-eater, as he stinks! and so let him go. But this hug of Pantagruel's was such a terror to him all the days of his life, and took such deep impression in his fancy, that very often, distracted with sudden affrightments, he would startle and say that Pantagruel held him by the neck.
From the cane, which thrives upon these hills, a little sugar is made: the honey, of which, as the Abyssinians say, "the land stinks," is the general sweetener. The condiment of East Africa, is red pepper. To resume, dear L., the thread of our adventures at Harar. Immediately after arrival, we were called upon by the Arabs, a strange mixture.
It is almost navigable, and we come from there away." They slid over solid and compact till the Wheel thudded under their weight. "Raven's Gill Brook," said the Rat. "I never heard of Raven's Gill." "We are the waters of Harpenden Brook down from under Callton Rise. Phew! how the race stinks compared with the heather country."
But whut we need hain't more lawyers an' sich lak, but more farmahs an' carpentahs an' shoemakahs. An', ez fur land, thar's a track uv 'bout three hundurd acres back thar on Hinkson Crick whut ole man Lucky, I heah, will sell fur one dollah an' two bits a acre lays well, is well watered an' well timbered, an' the sile fairly stinks with richness. All it needs is cl'arin' up.
The fish is without taste, Russian salmon having less savour than English skate; the fowls are dry because no endeavour is made to fatten them, and the "mutton stinks worst than carrion, for they never cut the wool." With great thought and tenderness he tells her that he wishes her "to keep a maid, for I do not like that you should live alone.
"Yes, by Jove, the Chinese beat all the world in stinks; but I say, Miss Leigh, try to persuade your aunt to hunt elsewhere for ivories this part of the world is unhealthy." "I'm not surprised at that." "Be advised by me and make this your last visit to this chinky shop. Well, I must be shoving on," and he trotted away. A moment later Mrs.
Drain not the bowl save with a trusty friend * A man of worth whose good old For wine, like wind, sucks sweetness from the sweet * And stinks when over stench It haply blow:" Adding: Drain not the bowl; save from dear hand like thine * The cup recall thy gifts; thou, gifts of wine."
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