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They had just seated themselves when the two gamblers returned, followed by Durade. He was rubbing his hands in satisfaction. "What was the fuss about?" queried Hough, tipping the ashes off his cigar. "Some drunks after money they had lost." "And got thrown out for their pains?" inquired Ancliffe. "Yes. Mull and Fresno are out there now." The game was taken up again.
Aside from any ethical consideration, a man makes more in the long run if he cares for the good-will of his customers as well as their cash." "What have you to say on the subject, Mr. Brown?" asked the judge, turning to the proprietor of the livery-stable. "Well, my choice is for Chicky Wiggins," answered the man, tipping back his chair and thrusting his hands in his pockets.
It is the only field of labor in which there seems to be a general tendency to abandon the democratic notion and return frankly to the standards of the aristocratic régime. The multiplication of livery, the tipping system, the terms of address, all show an increasing imitation of the old world's methods. Unhappily enough, they are used with little or none of the old world's ease.
Even the smith crawled on deck, and had spirit enough left to advise Ruby not to forget the bellows; to which Ruby replied by recommending his comrade not to forget the matches. Then the operation of embarking began. The sea at the time was running pretty high, with little white flecks of foam tipping the crests of the deep blue waves. The eastern sky was dark and threatening.
"P'r'aps you'd just look at it and see if it's important," he suggested. Mrs. Tipping took the letter from him, and, after remarking on the strangeness of the handwriting, read aloud: "Dear Jack: If you want to see Mr. Norton, come to 10, John Street, Walworth, and be careful nobody sees you." "Jack," said the mate, stooping for the envelope. "Why it must be meant for Mr. for Jack Fraser."
And Booty brought Maudie Hollis, who was not too proud and too beautiful to go down on her knees before the Baby, while young Fred stood aloof in awe, and grew sanguine to the roots of the hair that rose, tipping his forehead like a monumental flame. As for the Humming-bird, he was amazing. That Sunday afternoon Ransome saw Winny Dymond for the first time since his marriage.
Sarah Rowe, she got her two hands full, and then she just fell splash into the water, full length, and lost 'em Oh, dear me, how I laughed! She did look so funny." "Your boots are all mud," said Tom. "Who cares?" said Gypsy, with a merry laugh, tipping all the wet, earthy moss out on her lap, as she spoke. "See! isn't there a quantity? I like moss 'cause it fills up.
It was luck that the canoe was a large one, partaking more of the nature of a boat, as Robert could remain concealed on the bottom without tipping it over, while the Onondaga continued to put all his nervous power and skill into his strokes.
The waves produced are like the billows of the ocean, and have the same quality of loud booming tones, possessing the same wild exuberance of motion. The passionate torrent swirls in wild ecstasy around the rocks, springing aloft and tipping the waves with a silvery radiance or clashing its emerald waters in plumes of spray.
The sun had arisen, and his beams were just tipping the summits of the Rocky Mountains, causing the snowy peaks to glitter like flame, and the deep ravines and gorges to look sombre and mysterious by contrast, when Dick, and Joe, and Henri mounted their gallant steeds, and, with Crusoe gambolling before, and the two pack-horses trotting by their side, turned their faces eastward, and bade adieu to the Indian camp.
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