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The tortillas, being still warm, and therefore capable of being twisted into any form, served as a substitute for all these contrivances of civilisation, which in a Mexican rancho are considered superfluous things. Their simple meal was hardly over when a very unusual sound fell upon their ears. "Ho! what's that?" cried Rosita, starting to her feet, and listening.
He was pledged to set his face westward ho! but the zest was gone out of the enterprise. He leaned over a gate, and watched the gulls fishing in the river. Johnnie did not hear a light step coming down the meadow towards him; no sound disturbed his melancholy reflections. "Jack!" murmured a soft voice. The young man started as though an arrow had struck him.
Jones thought the great, gaunt, pure white beasts the spectral wolves of Rea's fancy, for they were silent, and silent wolves must belong to dreams only. "Ho! Ho!" yelled Rea. "There's green-fire eyes for you, Buff. Hell itself ain't nothin' to these white devils. Get the calves in the tepee, an' stand ready to loose the dogs, for we've got to fight."
Ho, Redfeather! are you trying to stop the wind by looking it out of countenance?" The Indian rose, and walked towards the spot where the boys lay. "What was Redfeather thinking about?" said Charley, adopting the somewhat pompous style of speech occasionally used by Indians.
Shall it be in vain that I delivered Abellino into your power? Andreas. It was to the brave Flodoardo that I promised Rosabella. I never entered into any engagement with the murderer Abellino. Let Flodoardo claim my niece, and she is his; but Abellino can have no claim to her. Again I say lay down your arms. The murderer Abellino, say you? Ho! ho!
When the Fox thought it was time, he called: "'Hey, Bear, come here quick quick! I have a Rabbit in this hole, and I want you to help me dig him out. Ho! The Bear tried to get up, but he couldn't. "'Hey, Bear, come here there are two Rabbits in this hole, called the Fox. "The Bear pulled so hard to get away from the ice, that he broke his tail off short to his body.
"And once I was called Bella." "Ages ago! Basta! All things have their end. Do take those eyes of yours off my face; they were always so bright! and really now they are perfect burning-glasses! How close it is! Peuh! I am dead tired. May I ask for a glass of water; a drop of wine in it or brandy will do as well." "Ho! you have come to brandy and morning drams, eh, Jasper?" said Mrs.
Peter knew that voice the instant he heard it. It was the voice of Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel. Happy Jack was seated on the top of an old stump, eating a nut. "I'm going to school," replied Peter with a great deal of dignity. "Going to school! Ho, ho, ho! Going to school!" exclaimed Happy Jack. "Pray tell me to whom you are going to school, and what for?"
Not till Vanity Fair did the novel of pure real life advance its standard once more: while the historical novel-romance of a new kind may date its revival with though it should scarcely trace that revival to Esmond, or Westward Ho! or both.
No, no! you never had a good place where they were kind to you, and so you don't know, and I'm sorry for you; but I can tell you good places make good horses. I wouldn't vex our people for anything; I love them, I do," said Merrylegs, and he gave a low "ho, ho, ho!" through his nose, as he used to do in the morning when he heard James' footstep at the door.
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