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"Could it be rigged to the engine?" Ambrose asked. "Wa! I never think of that," said Simon. "Maybe grind four bags a day, then." Ambrose had no intention of giving an answer until he had communicated with Colina. Strongly against Simon's advice, he insisted that Gaviller, as he said, must be given one more chance to relent. Simon unwillingly yielded.
Mr Bradwardine was the reverse of all this, and piqued himself upon stalking through life with the same upright, starched, stoical gravity which distinguished his evening promenade upon the terrace of Tully-Veolan, where for hours together the very model of old Hardyknute Stately stepp'd he east the wa', And stately stepp'd he west
"One moment, miss, one moment," said Kerry, keeping an iron control upon himself. "What is the name of Mrs. Sin's husband?" "Oh, let me think! I can always remember it by recalling the croak of the raven." She raised one hand to her brow, posing reflectively, and began to murmur: "Sin Sin Ah... Sin Sin Jar... Sin Sin Oh! I have it! Sin Sin Wa!" "Good!" rapped Kerry, and made a note on the block.
'It was you, was it, returned Squeers, 'that helped off my runaway boy? It was you, was it? 'Me! returned John, in a loud tone. 'Yes, it wa' me, coom; wa'at o' that? It wa' me. Noo then! 'You hear him say he did it, my child! said Squeers, appealing to his daughter. 'You hear him say he did it! 'Did it! cried John. 'I'll tell 'ee more; hear this, too.
"A close shave, lad," said the old sailor, as he peered around for more snakes. "I I should sa say it wa was," panted Dick. He was deadly pale. "I I thought it would strangle me sure!" "If it had got around your neck, that is what would have happened. Reckon as how we had better git out o' this neighborhood, eh?" "Yes, yes, let us go at once," and Dick started off once more.
If ever Ishi wished to refer to a hero of the bow, or having been beaten in a shot, he always told us what Chu no wa yahi could have done. To make arrowheads properly one should smear his face with mud and sit out in the hot sun in a quiet secluded spot. The mud is a precaution against harm from the flying chips of glass, possibly also a good luck ritual.
Irving was the more difficult for an American to understand. "He pronounces the English tongue as it is pronounced by no other man, woman or child," wrote the critic, and proceeded to give a phonetically spelled version of Irving's delivery of Shylock's speech of Antonio. "Wa thane, ett no eperes Ah! um! yo ned m'clp Ough! ough! Gaw too thane! Ha! um! Yo com'n say Ah!
Then another turn in the road shut us in again between grey cliff and grey river and grey sky. Toward the end of the day a sharp bend to the left took us away from the Ta Tu into the wild gorge through which flows the Tarchendo, and with a rough scramble we dropped down into the pretty little village of Wa Ssu Kou, the "Ravine of the Tile Roof Monastery."
I wad be ill willin' to bigg a stane wa' atween me an' the bonnie days whan Angus Mac Pholp was the deil we did fear, an' Hornie the deil we didna. Losh, man! what wad come o' me gien I hed to say my prayers in English! I doobt gien 't wad come oot prayin' at a'!"
Sir Lucien stood looking at the woman, and although one pipe had affected him but slightly, his imagination momentarily ran riot and a pageant of his life swept before him, so that his jaw grew hard and grim and he clenched his hands convulsively. An unbroken stillness prevailed in the opium-house of Sin Sin Wa.
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