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He had suffered enough, and the cocoa-nut was the limit! . . . 'Are ye for Glesca? Willie persisted when Macgregor was giving himself a 'tosh up' in the billet. 'Ay, am I! he snapped at last. 'Hurray for the hero! Weel, gi'e Maggie yin on the squeaker frae me, an' tell her no to greet for me, because I'm no worthy o' her pure unselfish love, etceetera.
"Our trenches," proclaimed Private Tosh with forced calm, "were never raided by no Brandyburrrgerrs! Was they, Jimmie?" Mr. Cosh corroborated, with three adjectives which Mr. Tosh had not thought of. Spike Johnson merely smiled, with the easy assurance of a man who has the ace up his sleeve. "Oh yes, they was!" he reiterated. "They werre not!" shouted half a dozen voices.
We've often talked about love being a spoil-sport; well, that's all tosh, it's the beginning of sport, and the sooner you feel it, my dear, the better for you. If you laugh at me I've done with you for ever. I perceive all sorts of difficulties, but you know when I really want a thing I get it.
Mike had seen enough of Wyatt's bowling to know that it was merely ordinary "slow tosh," and the professional did not look as difficult as Saunders. The first half-dozen balls he played carefully. He was on trial, and he meant to take no risks. Then the professional over-pitched one slightly on the off. Mike jumped out, and got the full face of the bat on to it.
"Yes funny stuff," Mrs. Severance's voice is musically quiet. "And then you tell them to people who pretend to know all about what they mean and then " She shrugs shoulders at the Freudian two across the shoulder-high partition. "But you don't believe in all this psycho-analysis tosh, do you?" She hesitates. "A little, yes. Like the old woman and ghosts.
Life's too short. He's got the most beautiful mother, with lovely silvery hair and a young face with dark eyes. I'm staying with his sister who married my cousin; it's all mixed up, but I mean to pump her to-morrow. We've often talked about love being a spoil-sport; well, that's all tosh, it's the beginning of sport, and the sooner you feel it, my dear, the better for you.
And Scipio found the letter thrust out for him to take back. "Eh?" "I said 'tosh!" replied the gambler. "How'd you get that letter?" "It was flung in through the window. It was tied to a stone." "Yes?" "There was a wrappin' to it." Then Scipio's eyes began to sparkle at the recollection. "It was wrote on by the feller James," he went on in a low voice.
She would find the others dull, as she finds technical wage questions. That's partly why she hates the Fact. If she happened to be on the other side, she would talk the same tosh, only use 'capitalist' for 'Bolshevist. She said, 'Anyhow, whatever the issue, the blood of the country is up. We must fight the thing through.
The watch was caught by James Langlands, and handed to Peter Tosh, the chief elder present. "To Mr. Ogilvy," Gavin continued, "you will also give the chain. You will take it off my neck when you find the body. "To each of my elders, and to Hendry Munn, kirk officer, and to my servant Jean, I leave a book, and they will go to my study and choose it for themselves.
I said we've got her, but that only means that we are about to get her address; and the trouble will be to get herself afterward." "Tosh! As to that, only tell me where she is, an' I'll go and grab her by the neck." "Don't be such a fool. This is New York and not Mexico, though you insist on confounding the two.
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