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"I telled that ye was to stay to-night with a girl below the ragged rocks, and she didn't give a dum. She air only a workin' girl; she ain't yer own flesh and blood." "And the baby, Tessibel? May I see my baby?" "Nope, not to-night." "Please, Tessibel! Please! Are his eyes grey, and has he dark hair on his head?"
and in a fragment of the Brutus he enforces the doctrine that dreams are often heaven-sent warnings, full of meaning to those that will understand them. Nevertheless his contempt for augury was equal to that of his master "Nil credo auguribus qui auris verbis divitant Alienas, suas ut auro locupletent domos." The often-quoted maxim of the tyrant oderint dum metuant is first found in him.
Noah, the ancient man whose name she bore would as soon have thought of leaving the Ark as she of turning a traitor to her country, and when she heard of the riotous mob raised against the draft, she talked seriously of going in person to New York "to give 'em a piece of her mind," and for one whole day refused to speak to Flora's husband, because he was a "dum dimocrat," and she presumed was opposed to Lincoln.
"They said you can't have no Christmas on Christmas Day," he observed, grinning, "but I ain't heard nothing to prevent singing Christmas carols right up to the day that is the day." Ebenezer halted. "How old are you?" he abruptly demanded of Buff whom he had known from Buff's boyhood. "Thirty-three," said Buff, "dum it." "You and Bruce about the same age, ain't you?" said Ebenezer. Buff nodded.
There was old Smithy crying around, wiping his eyes on his sleeve, and explaining to a lot of Eastern folks that it wasn't Shadder's fault gad-hook it all! He was the best, hootin', tootin' son-of-a-sea-cook that ever hit a prairie breeze, in spite of this dum foolishness. "'They can't make no "lord" of Shadder! hollers Smithy.
She frowned, "Only a Latin motto." "Tell me!" he said persuasively. She continued to frown. "It was 'Dum spiro spero." "Great Scott!" he said. "Do you think I should have been as presumptuous as that? I should have just said, 'With Noel's love, and you wouldn't have had the heart to fling it back again." She smiled, not very willingly. "I can't understand it at all." "I can," he said boldly.
I hate fish, myself; but Maxwell has a perfect right to look for the honest fulfillment of a contract made between you and him. Didn't I hear you tell that farmer that he was a dum fool if he thought that a contract made between two parties is not legally binding, and that if you fulfilled your part he must pay for your services or you would sue him?
But his fury waned, he fell back as in a stupor, and lay silent, little twitches passing over his sightless face. She bent over him, terribly distressed. Should she go? Should she ring again? Presently words came from his lips at intervals, abrupt, disconnected, and now a ribald laugh, and now a tearful sigh. And then he was a student humming: "Gaudeamus igitur, juvenes dum sumus,"
As our emblem and coat of arms, I propose a tree mightily shaken by the wind, but still bearing its ruddy fruit on every branch; with the motto Dum convellor mitescunt, or Conquassata sed ferax. That purely intellectual life of the individual has its counterpart in humanity as a whole.
I want it fixed to hustle him there quick, so Young can't put a stay on the proceedings." Breathing hard, he took out his watch. "It's half past four. Do those people have the least idea you saw Bishop?" "Nope, but I saw 'im all right," said Letts, an expression of satisfied malice animating his ugly white face. "Maybe we can't make it hot for that dum lawyer who air got my girl, now."
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