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"I should rather have packed away my name," said Horace. "So should I. Isn't it awful? The Abrahama is simply dreadful, and the way it comes down with a sort of whack on the White! Poor Aunt Abrahama! I feel almost guilty having all her pretty jewels and being so pleased with them." "Oh, she would be pleased, too, if she knew." "I don't know.
Plump he fell into the crowd, that scatter'd on all hands as Joan pummelled him: and whack, whack! fell the blows on the poor idiot's face, who scream'd for mercy, as though Judgment Day were come.
"Whack!" went Mrs. Brown's shoe on the end of the bear's nose. "Wuff!" grunted the bear, and down he dropped on all four paws. Now Mrs. Brown really did not mean to hit the bear. She was just tossing her shoe over the curtain so her husband might have something to throw at the bear, and, as it happened, she hit the bear by accident. Of course it might have been better if one of Mr.
And, O my brother or sister in sorrow, has it never befallen you, when bending all your energies to the mighty task of "doing" your back-hair, to find yourself gazing inanely at the opaque back of your brush, while the hand-mirror, which had maliciously insinuated itself into your right hand for this express purpose, came down upon your devoted head with a resonant whack?
"It seemed about an hour before he poked his horrid head out and let Jim get a whack at it. But you didn't lose much time, then, Jimmy!" "Could he have bitten through the leg of your pants?" queried Wally, with interest. "He couldn't have sent all the venom through, I think," Jim replied. "But enough would have gone to make a very sick little Harry."
Stimcoes and Rogerses are hated rivals. If you can whack Bully Stokes for us " "But Mrs. Stimcoe told me that you were taking a walk with the butler," I interrupted. Master Bates winked. "Would you like to see him?"
"Hurry with that rope!" commanded Ned. The pony slowed up as they approached the bank of the river, but Ned was in no mood for trifling now. He brought down the stick on the animal's hip with a terrific whack. Bad-eye angered by the blow, squealed and leaped into the air with all four feet free of the ground.
Brace up to him, Bull. Maybe you can work him for a stake. They ain't no danger, I tell you." "By Gawd, I'd like to!" declared Bull and swore a string of oaths. "Then go ahead," urged Marie. "And don't forget I want in on the stake." "Ah-h, I do all the work and then have to whack up with you, huh? I will not. What I get I keep." "I remember Jack Harpe used to say that.
Expecting no interference in his nefarious pursuit and unwarned by his companions, who were to busily engaged in their adventure of loot to observe my approach, he was easy prey, and the good, hard whack that I gave him just under his right ear sent him flying, an unconscious mass of villanous clay, into the gutter.
There was Salih and Nasir, a second son of the desert, both from Riad; a poor unfortunate lad with stumpy hands and feet, who limped about on rag shoes and seemed quite happy; there was Noorah and her sister, and lastly, the missionary. But for the shuffling of the desert sand and the whack of a driving stick the caravan marched in silence.
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