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Strange! that courage and fidelity for I will warrant that the knave is stout should have no better companion than this swaggering braggadocio humour. But you mark me not, friend Davie." "I do I do, most heedfully," said Davie. "For, as the sun goeth round the dial-plate in twenty-four hours, add, for the moon, fifty minutes and a half " "You are in the seventh heavens, man," said his companion.
A hundred thoughts ran through his head: what was Ibrahim's particular part in the swaggering scheme was the first and the last of them. Ibrahim answered for himself, for at that moment he entered the burning circle. A movement of applause ran round, then there was sudden silence. The dancing-girls were bid to stop their dancing, were told to be gone.
More than this: if you use coarse words, or those which may be interpreted in various ways, then coarse manners will soon follow coarse tones, and a general swaggering and lawlessness. My dear girls, I am only prophesying what will be if no prevention is employed. Surely you will give no cause for censure, if you seriously think about this matter.
Had he not mingled in that wild life which, without moral lamp-posts, allures all the more because of a certain flavoring spice of deviltry? Every farmer's son in Marsden, Gould, Stornaway, and Lake Megantic, envied Donald that easy swaggering air, that frank, perhaps defiant outlook, which the girls secretly adored. Is it the village maiden alone who confesses to a secret charm in dare-devilism?
And, wheeling his horse, with a swaggering show of contemptuous indifference to possible danger he rode slowly away.
If we carried out the contract to the letter, and to the letter it must be with this man, I knew that Woodford would meet the loss, if it stripped the coat off of his shoulders, meet it with a smile and some swaggering comment. And I knew as well that, if by any hook or crook he could prevent the contract from being carried out, he would do it with the devil's cleverness.
With its d -d impartiality, its habit of looking through the integument of things to see if there might be anything inside, he felt that they regarded it as the real adversary the eternal foe to all the little fat 'facts, who, dressed up in blue and yellow, were swaggering and staggering, calling each other names, wiping each other's eyes, blooding each other's noses.
And now was it a day gloomy and dark, a day of clouds and of thick darkness with Mansoul. Now they saw that they had been foolish, and began to perceive what the company and prattle of Mr. Carnal- Security had done, and what desperate damage his swaggering words had brought poor Mansoul into. But what further it was likely to cost them they were ignorant of. Now Mr.
That unhappy man had just concluded his narration, when an officer entered, and whispered the magistrate that Thornton was in waiting. "Admit him," said Mr. , aloud. Thornton entered with his usual easy and swaggering air of effrontery; but no sooner did he set his eyes upon Dawson, than a deadly and withering change passed over his countenance.
Wherefore he sailed directly for Boston laden with booty, with a crew of swaggering companions at his heels. But no sooner did he show himself in Boston, than the alarm was given of his reappearance, and measures were taken to arrest him. The daring character which Kidd had acquired, however, and the desperate fellows who followed like bull-dogs at his heels, caused a little delay in his arrest.
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