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But in the outrageous bravery of velvet jacket and flapped hat, with trousers that were more accurately described as fleshings, a white handkerchief cavalierly knotted at his neck, a shock of Olympian curls upon his brow, and his feet shod through all weathers in the slenderest of Molière shoes you had but to look at him and you knew you were in the presence of a Great Creature.
But she will always look like a lady, whatever she is dressed in." And then my father laughed still more contemptuously and replied, "Her grandmother weeded turnips in the fields though ninepence a day dry days, and sixpence all weathers."
"Lads," I said, "yonder is your port. Good weather and good luck, and we'll put about for home before three days have passed." Now, they set up a great cheer at this; and Peter Bligh, whose years go to fat, wiped his brow like a man who has got rid of a great load and is very pleased to have done with it. "Thank you for that," said he. "I hope I do my duty in all weathers, Mr.
Bascom said that he would like to see all those bills grow into laws, with certain slight changes, but that he could not conscientiously vote to saddle the people with another Civil War debt. It was well for the State, he hinted, that those committees were composed of stanch men who would do their duty in all weathers, regardless of demagogues who sought to gratify inordinate ambitions.
When he left us it was middling hard collar work, I can tell you what with me working the bit of a croft and the mother weeding for some of you some of your fathers I mane ninepence a day dry days, and sixpence all weathers.
They are broken from it not only by the wave but also by the weather. Indeed the sea cliff weathers more rapidly, as a rule, than do rock ledges inland. It is abundantly wet with spray. Along its base the ground water of the neighboring land finds its natural outlet in springs which under mine it. Moreover, it is unprotected by any shield of talus.
She would describe him as an unmarried man, of the age of fifty, he had a prejudice against marrying under fifty, dressed in nankeen for all weathers, with no other protection than a whalebone umbrella, and likewise remarkable for a fine Roman nose.
He caught fish for his living, but a cramped piece of reasoning forced him to the conclusion that it would be wrong for him to shoot any more birds. He said, "The birds was made by God, and God's been good to me, and I am not going to hurt them." Sunday after Sunday in all weathers he strode off to the moor.
To-day they are gone on a wild expedition over the hills, and are to sleep in some little inn on the brae-side, where the people are supposed not to know who they are. The Queen will be seven hours on her pony. She rides through all weathers and over all places, and chaffs everybody for not taking exercise enough.
I have, of course, licked the rough outlines of the story or anecdote into something like shape; but the main incidents are repeated to this day by the sailors of the 'Barking Fleet, as the squadron of handsome smacks are called, which, hailing from the town of Barking, in Essex, pursue the toilsome task, in all seasons, and almost in all weathers, of supplying the London market with North-Sea turbot, soles, and cod.
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