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The audience thoroughly enjoyed the Elder's prayer. He was certainly gifted in that direction, and his petition grew genuinely eloquent as his desires embraced the "ends of the earth and the utterm'st parts of the seas thereof." But in the midst of it a clatter was heard, and five or six strapping fellows filed in with loud thumpings of their brogans.
Tell her how glad I am things have gone off so well." He started off at a strapping pace toward his home, and Barbara leaned on the gate to indulge her tears. Not a soul passed to interrupt her, and the justice did not come. What could have become of him?
The stranger grew sad as he looked at this great, strapping woman, whose red face was the very representative of coarseness and meanness. "Be so good as to conduct me to Monsieur Rousseau's presence, madame," said he, in rather a commanding tone. "I shall do no such thing," cried Therese Levasseur, in a loud, rough voice. "People who visit in hackney-coaches should not take airs.
The great man sat on the back porch, and, calling up the slaves one by one, addressed some remark to each, gave every elder a quarter and every youngster a dime, until he came to the women. The first of these was Lorency, the strapping cook, who had improved the time since her master's coming to make herself gay with her newest gown and a flaming new turban.
There will be a hundred strapping Elliots to ride the brouze the like's no been seen sin' the days of auld Martin of the Preakin-tower I wad send the sled for ye wi' a canny powny." "Is it to me you propose once more to mix in the society of the common herd?" said the Recluse, with an air of deep disgust.
"Yes," said the lieutenant, drily; "we learned to our cost that they had wives, and strapping daughters too." "Then how can it be possible that your brother officer can be here? There is no one to keep him a prisoner." "Well, it doesn't seem likely," said the officer, in a disappointed tone. "Unless," he added, "these viragoes of women are keeping him, out of spite."
And we turned round to look at one another, and lo! another horse, the Doctor's, was being led up and down by a groom, saddled; and, while we wondered, out came the Doctor himself and began strapping his valise on to the saddle. "And where are you going to-day, Baron?" asked the Major. "I am going," said he, "to Sydney. I sail for Europe in a week."
My wallet or my knapsack is packed, and ready for strapping on; and here is my staff! He hands it to her; she makes the same remark as Mr. Crisparkle, that it is very heavy; and gives it back to him, asking what wood it is? Iron-wood. Up to this point he has been extremely cheerful.
Among these links we found many families of Bushmen; and, unlike those on the plains of the Kalahari, who are generally of short stature and light yellow color, these were tall, strapping fellows, of dark complexion. Heat alone does not produce blackness of skin, but heat with moisture seems to insure the deepest hue.
The school filled day after day, and even the noted Dennison boys, from Jacob Dennison, the strapping six-foot senior, down to Dave, who was the youngest and smartest of the three, appeared duly every morning, and treated the young teacher with reasonable civility, if with somewhat insolent familiarity.
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