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There are the algarobia beans; but their skillet has been lost along with the kettle, and there is left them no utensil in which these legumes might be boiled. True, they can roast them in the ashes; but Gaspar still clings to the hope that something more toothful may turn up.
"Call the docthor, is it? God give you sinse! Sure the docthors is only a flock of omadhauns." "Is it your daughter she is, ma'am?" "She's from Ameriky, the poor mischancy crathur." "Give her a toothful of whisky, your ladyship. Sure it's nayther bite nor sup she's had the morn, and belike she's as impty as a quarry-hole."
"What I like about you, Tomlinson, is your restraint," said Furneaux. "Many a man would have offered to fast a week, not meaning to deny himself a toothful five minutes longer than was avoidable. Now you really mean what you say Ah, this is Mr. Robert's den. And that is his bedroom, with dressing-room adjoining. Very cozy, to be sure.
"I got a toothful while some other folks was getting a meal," answered the Kid. "Just one thing more: where did you get that name Eliphaz?" "That was a sort of a joke," confessed the old man. "Once there was a party named Job, and he had all sorts of hard luck. Some of that hard luck was in not bein' able to lose his friends.
When the tumbler was full, he set it down on the table, with an indicative bang, close to Valentine's plate. "Just try a toothful of that to begin with," said Mat. "If you like it, say Yes; if you don't, say No; and I'll make it better next time." "You are very kind, very kind indeed," answered Mr.
"Indeed, I don't doubt that you are right, and I will take your advice." "Thank you," said David a minute or two later on, holding out the glass while John poured, "jest a wisdom toothful. I don't set up to be no Sol'mon, an' if you ever find out how I'm bettin' on a race jest 'copper' me an' you c'n wear di'monds, but I know when a hoss has stood too long in the barn as soon as the next man."
Gaites nodded in proud assent, and Birkwall went on: "I thought you were faking the name last night; but I didn't want to give you away. It was the real thing, wasn't it, after all." "The real thing," said Gaites, with his most toothful smile, and he laughed for pleasure in his friend's astonishment. "Well," Birkwall resumed, "she seems to be following you up, old fellow.
Sweet and short, like this toothful of cherry brandy I'm after drinking!" "Ah, that's poor stuff, Doctor," said Mr. Hallinan, proprietor of Hallinan's Hotel, a prosperous hostelry, much patronised by salmon-fishers. "Give me a sup of good old John Jameson in its purity!" "'Twas for Tishy I brought this out," replied the Doctor, apologetically; "but I lost sight of her.
The subject was a complicated one, touching deep problems of supply and demand, to say nothing of carrying parties; so let us leave them to their warfare. The signal officer was looking wise over something that boomed and buzzed alternately; the machine-gun officer may, or may not, have been enjoying another toothful. In short, the supers, the stage-managers had departed.
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