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"You mean when a man 's so foppish that he will have them made tight enough to display the goodness of his thighs," rejoined Gibbs, who, being dry, was enjoying the plight of the rest. "Make yourselves smart, gentlemen, there are ladies at quarters to-night." "You don't puff that take-in on us, sirrah," retorted Tilghman. "'Pon honour.
What a devil of a take-in that is, ain't it? And he dove down stairs like a Newfoundland dog into a pond arter a stone, and out of sight in no time. "Now, you are as like Rufe, as two peas, Squire. You want to say, you was to Liverpool, but you don't want to see nothin'. "Waiter." "Sir." "Is this Liverpool, I see out of the Winder?" "Yes, sir." "Guess I have seen Liverpool then.
There were old tracks of the peasant himself and of a dog, but not of a bear. "It's a decided take-in," grumbled Pouchskin. "Patience, master!" said the Quan. "There is a bear inside for all that; and I'll prove it, or else return you your money. See my little dog! he'll tell you old nalle is there. It was he that told me."
'Do you remember, Charlie, how we sat here the first evening he came, and you took me in about the deadly feud? 'It was no take-in, said Charles; 'only the feud is all on one side. 'Oh, dear! it has been such a stupid winter without Guy, sighed Charlotte; 'if this won't make papa forgive him, I don't know what will.
Barnett, who had asked me who this man Lincoln was. I told him he was a candidate for the Legislature. He laughed and said, 'Can't the party raise better material than that? I said, 'Go to-morrow and hear him before you pass judgment. When he came back I said, 'Doctor, what have you to say now? 'Why, sir, he said, 'he is a perfect take-in.
Copperas, with a disdainful toss of the head, "I know nothing about the young man. He has left us; a very mysterious piece of business indeed, Mr. Brown; and now I think of it, I can't help saying that we were by no means pleased with your introduction: and, by the by, the chairs you bought for us at the sale were a mere take-in, so slight that Mr. Walruss broke two of them by only sitting down."
"Ah, these are something like `Roman remains'!" exclaimed Captain Dresser, when their wherry ultimately glided up to the ruins of Porchester Castle, the base of whose swelling walls was laved by the rippling tide. "That `villa' at Brading was a regular take-in, and I shall always regret that half-crown in hard cash, out of which I was swindled!"
This habit she to-day revived, and, pondered vaguely over many pleasant fancies while hearing mistily of certain atrocities perpetrated by "City scoundrels" Emma was always warm in her epithets. "The 'Company, my dear, is a complete take-in all sham names, secretaries, treasurers, and even directors.
Copperas, with a disdainful toss of the head, "I know nothing about the young man. He has left us; a very mysterious piece of business indeed, Mr. Brown; and now I think of it, I can't help saying that we were by no means pleased with your introduction: and, by the by, the chairs you bought for us at the sale were a mere take-in, so slight that Mr. Walruss broke two of them by only sitting down."
"I mean. that Rufford was never engaged to her, not for an instant," said the lad, urgent in spreading the lesson which he had received from his cousin. "It was all a dead take-in." "Who was taken in?" asked Mounser Green. "Well; nobody was taken in as it happened.
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