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It's not a hay meadow. We graze it." "Mrs. Gosden," said Gregory, "called the field the hay takers." Mr. Gosden laughed loudly. "That's my missis's pronounciation," he said. "She's much too fond of haitches: she will put them in the wrong place. I often correct her, but it's no use. It's nothing to do with hay. It's the size of the field the size, don't you see?
Damme, though, the old gentleman is splendid; superlative, sir; it's ten to one against Coriolanus, and no takers. Between ourselves, Coriolanus was a pretty fellow, but talked too much. Phocion, sir? Did I hear you mention Phocion?" "You did not," I answered. "And quite right," said he; "with your father running, I wouldn't back Phocion for a place. All the same," Mr.
When Frankling broke closing-time rules at Browning Hall by a good thirty minutes some two-to-one money was placed on him. When Ole and Miss Spencer cut chapel the next day the odds promptly switched. You could get takers on either side at any time, but I think the odds favored Ole a little. You can't help boosting your preferences with your good money. It's like betting on your college team.
The Indians had recently killed two or three men engaged in carrying dispatches over this route. On this account none of the scouts were at all anxious to volunteer. A reward of several hundred dollars had failed to secure any takers. The scouts had heard of what I had done the day before. They asked me if I did not think the journey to Fort Dodge dangerous.
"Whispering" Urban Cobb brought him reports from the field. Talleyrand Sylvester was trying to place bets on Harlan Thornton, but there were no takers. It was even stated that Enoch Dudley was finding it hard work to secure pledges enough to warrant his running as an independent candidate. Harlan Thornton, looking in from the outside, had found politics, as managed for him, an abhorrent mess.
'I ain't wedded to this, if you think I am; I ain't ambitious; I don't make a point of playin' the lead; I offer to, that's all, and if you can't show me better, by Gawd, I'm goin' to! 'Then the risk! cried Davis. 'If you ast me straight, I should say it was a case of seven to one and no takers, said Huish. 'But that's my look-out, ducky, and I'm gyme, that's wot I am: gyme all through.
I backed down the steps to the sidewalk and then hurried away frontward, fully understanding how incidents like that must bother the psychical research people and the census takers. Of course I heard an explanation of it afterward, as we always do about inexplicable things. The landlady was Mrs.
"I was thinking of Perry Rountree, that used to be my sidekicker before he committed matrimony. In them days me and Perry hated indisturbances of any kind. We roamed around considerable, stirring up the echoes and making 'em attend to business. Why, when me and Perry wanted to have some fun in a town it was a picnic for the census takers.
With that immobility of lips, learned by all imprisoned in Society, Lily Malvezin murmured: "Who's that she's dancing with? Is it the dark horse, Bertie?" Through lips no less immobile Bertie answered: "Forty to one, no takers."
The second party to catch sight of them consisted of four men on camels, whose rifles, worn military fashion with a sling, betrayed them as Gungadhura's men. "Desert police" he called them. "Takers of tenths" was the popular, and much more accurate description.
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