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Finally, the enormity of bloodshed and woe involved caused a sort of concession on both sides to be agreed upon. Oppression continued will surely lead to a point where it cures itself, and the superior class in England, with a wise weather-eye, saw the reef on which they were in danger of striking.
As Davie Summers expressed it, "they were regular trumps"; and, according to Buzzby's opinion, "they wos the jolliest set o' human walrusses wot he had ever comed across in all his travels, and he ought to know, for he had always kep' his weather-eye open, he had, and wouldn't give in on that p'int, he wouldn't, to no man livin'."
He was tough, and sturdy, and grizzled, and broad, and square, and massive a first-rate specimen of a John Bull, and, according to himself, "always kept his weather-eye open."
When you dig trenches, let every man work with his weather-eye open and his rifle handy, in case of sudden attack. If you go out on night operations don't advertise your position by stopping to give your men a recitation. No talking no smoking no unnecessary delay or exposure! Just go straight to your point of deployment, and do what you came out to do." To this Mackintosh replies,
At this point another roar from the volcano, and a shout from the leader of the excursionists to return on board, broke up the conference. "Well, lad, I'm glad I've seen you. Don't forget to write your whereabouts. They say there's a lot o' wild places as well as wild men and beasts among them islands, so keep your weather-eye open an' your powder dry. Good-bye, Nigel.
"Don't you?" said Davie in a tone of surprise; "now that is odd. One would have thought that a fellow who keeps his weather-eye so constantly open should know everything." "Don't chaff; boy, but lend a hand to undo the sled-lashings. I see that Mr Saunders is agoin' to anchor here for the night."
Then came Goward and this complication, and through it all Elizabeth has had a weather-eye open for Dr. Denbigh. A rather suggestive chain of evidence that, proving that Elizabeth seems to regard all men as her own individual property. As Mrs. Evarts says, she perks up even when Billie comes into the room or Mr.
Now and then he cast a weather-eye on the heavens, and was soon confirmed in an opinion he had repeatedly ejaculated, that 'the first night's camping would be a drencher. In the West a black bank of cloud was blotting out the sun before his time. Northeast shone bare fields of blue lightly touched with loosefloating strips and flakes of crimson vapour.
As they were being led to the jail of the town, Bill whispered to his comrade "Look out sharp as ye go along, Ben, an' keep as close to me as ye can." "All right, my lad," muttered Ben, as he followed the soldiers who specially guarded himself. Accordingly he kept his "weather-eye open."
He could manage the river for me, he said. He followed fishing and duck-shooting for a living; but there was so many informers about these times that a man had to keep his weather-eye open if he wanted to use a net or a punt-gun. Ole Q was a J.P. His place was just across the flat, with a garden reaching down to the lagoon. Q himself was the two ends and the bight of a sanguinary dog.
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