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"My head is not so cool as yours." Cool, indeed, and the room whirling round and round, like a teetotum! "Oh, if you won't, I won't," said I confusedly; "but I I could drink my share of another bottle, I assure you, and not feel the slightest...." "I have no doubt on that point," said my neighbor, gravely; "but our French wines are deceptive, Mr.
"I don't see your circles I don't see them," Hewet continued. "I see a thing like a teetotum spinning in and out knocking into things dashing from side to side collecting numbers more and more and more, till the whole place is thick with them. Round and round they go out there, over the rim out of sight."
The Minister's powerful voice had ceased, but he had set them going as a man might twirl a teetotum; and in five or six seconds one of the men it was Roger, the young giant burst forth with a cry, and began to ejaculate what he called his "experience."
"I could twist him round like a teetotum!" whispered Margot, holding up a pert first finger and peering complacently. "He looks terribly commonplace!" sighed Ronald disconsolately. "Not in the least the sort of man I expected." Together they peered and peeped, ducking behind the curtains as the stranger approached, and gazing out again the moment his back was turned.
Whatever mollifying effect the sight of the silver coin might have produced on the mulatto's mind was entirely swamped by Mick's unfortunate quotation from his paternal archives. "Say, you sailor buckra, who dat you call one black dog, hi!" said he, coming up to my chum in a threatening manner, brandishing his arms and working his head about like a teetotum in a fit.
I do not find fault, but you turn me about like a teetotum." "You are right. We shall be better able to explain things upstairs. Come with me quick! quick!" said Dagobert, as, taking the Jesuit by the arm, he hurried him along, and brought him triumphantly into the room, where Adrienne and Mother Bunch had remained in much surprise at the soldier's sudden disappearance.
One fine morning the house was made much cleaner than usual; the rotatory chair, in which they used to spin a maniac like a teetotum, the restraint chairs, and all the paraphernalia were sent into the stable, and so disposed that, even if found, they would look like things scorned and dismissed from service: for Wolf, mind you, professed the non-restraint system.
At the same moment, the man with the teetotum predilection, set himself to spinning around the apartment, with immense energy, and with arms outstretched at right angles with his body; so that he had all the air of a tee-totum in fact, and knocked everybody down that happened to get in his way.
Gladstone spins round and round like a teetotum. I should think that such an instance has never been known since that good old parson who sung, 'Whatsoever king may reign, Still I'll be Vicar of Bray, Sir. Downing Street is the Grand Old Man's vicarage, and he endeavours to cling to it at all costs.
But the old Frenchman stood on his dignity, in a state of immovable reserve. "You took me by the shoulder this morning, sir, and spun me round," he said; "I do not desire to be treated a second time like a teetotum. For the rest, it is not my habit to intrude myself into my master's secrets." "It's not my habit," Rufus coolly rejoined, "to bear malice.
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