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This very day he would insist on being paid the dues." Ille. "That meant, that he purposed to break the peace of our lord the Emperor. Let him think well of it. It might cost him dear." Hic. "That was his care. The Stargardians should not a second time hang his arms on the gallows." Ille. "It was a simple act of retaliation; had he not read, 'An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth'?" Hic.
Hic ille est qui quindecim abhinc annos in litus Labradorium profectus est, ut solivagis in mari Boreali piscatoribus ope medica succurreret; quo in munere obeundo Oceani pericula, quæ ibi formidosissima sunt, contempsit dum miseris et mærentibus solatium ac lumen afferret. Nunc quantum homini licet, in ipsius Christi vestigiis, si fas est dicere, insistere videtur, vir vere Christianus.
"Two hundred and hic! fifty," Bill finally announced, "but we reckon as we won't sell." "Which is monstrous wise if I might chip in my little say," seconded Bidwell. "Yes, indeedy," added Kink. "We ain't in no charity business a- disgorgin' free an' generous to Swedes an' white men."
He dug into his pocket for the ubiquitous lead piece. "Not hic! on your life!" said the man earnestly. "You hang on to it, old top. I didn't pass it off on you." "Haw!" exploded the drummer suddenly. "Haw haw, haw!" And the elderly gentleman smiled. Hawkeye's face went red, and then purple. "Go 'way!" said the man petulantly. "I don't like you. Go 'way!
To attack such matter with wit and sarcasm is one thing; to originate it is quite another. Anybody can criticise the most beautiful picture or the grandest structure, but to paint the one or erect the other, hic labor, hoc opus est.
Will descended the steps, and found the man leaning against the dock-wall. "Now, friend, we'll climb these stairs." "I will help you hic yes up." "You are very kind, but let me help you first. Now go it! Tough! You don't gain a peg." "You'll have me hic over friend." "Have you over! It's the other way, man." "Well shay! It's all right, aint it? hic." "O yes! We wont quarrel about it.
Eleven days later the young prince reached Carlisle, but returned a few weeks after to London, and buried his father's body in Westminster, where it still rests under a slab, with the simple but truly descriptive inscription: "Eduardus primus, Scotorum malleus, hic est." Edward III., King of England, the eldest son of Edward II. and of Isabella, was born at Windsor, November 13, 1312.
"Freddie" got one bill loose, and then stuffed the rest back into his trousers' pocket. "Here, ole man," he said, "you take it." He held it out fluttering. They were in front of a saloon; and by the light of the window Jurgis saw that it was a hundred-dollar bill! "You take it," the other repeated. "Pay the cabbie an' keep the change I've got hic no head for business!
Passing by a world of artistic beauties which never tire the eyes, but soon would tire the chronicler and reader, stepping over the broad bronze slab in the floor which covers the dust of the haughty primate Porto Carrero, but which bears neither name nor date, only this inscription of arrogant humility, HIC JACET PULVIS CINIS ET NIHIL, we walk into the verdurous and cheerful Gothic cloisters.
"He said hic! that if you didn't know that without hic! bein' told, you wasn't no friend of his'n, an' hic! you could go to hell." "Shut up, you drunken fool!" Lawson snapped out. "Jensen and his herder were shot in the back, they say. That clears Santry," Wade declared, and sat for some moments in deep thought, while the men waited as patiently as they could. "Lawson," he said, at last.
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