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Perhaps they are only a-cold, and no wonder, standing waist-deep in the stream. Or perhaps they have never got accustomed to the speed and fury of the river's flux, or the miracle of its continuous body.
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limped, trembling, through the frozen grass; And drowsy was the flock in woolly fold. Edmond did not have to wait long.
'I'm a-cold, she said; 'the rain's cleared, and there'll be a duck's frost to-night. Abel looked up absently, humming the air he intended to play next. 'I bin in the Callow, and I've gotten a primmyrose, continued Hazel, accustomed to his ways, and not discouraged. 'And I got a bit of blackthorn, white as a lady. Abel was well on in 'Ap Jenkyn' by now.
"Terrible black eyes, for sartain," continued the old woman, as she sponged away. "Poor thing, it must be cold," murmured the old porter. "Warrant I catch my death a-cold," muttered the wife. "But, dear me, here's a paper!" exclaimed the old man. "Vinegar and brown paper," echoed the old woman. "Addressed to the governors of the hospital," continued the porter.
"They reckon," he said bitterly, "I am not learned enough to number them the relics and recount the miracles of Our Lady. Do they think my wits have escaped away through the holes in my gaberdine?" "'Tis not the wits," replied Marguerite, "escape by the holes in a body's clothes, but the good natural heat. I am sore a-cold. And it is but too true that, man and woman, they judge us by our dress.
His eulogy upon the gifted and lamented Menifee, the tribute of genius to genius, belongs to the realm of the loftiest eloquence, and seldom have words of deeper pathos been written than his own obituary "Poor Tom's a-cold" by George D. Prentice. As to why that which seemed so full of promise "turned to ashes upon the lips," the following will explain. Meeting his kinsman, the Rev. Dr.
He knew there was not a soul near, for the people from the farm at the foot of the spinney had all gone to church. 'Look here, Hazel, he said, not unkindly; 'you've got to give in, see? 'I see nought. 'You've got to come and live with me at Undern. You can wear those fine dresses. 'I'm a-cold, said Hazel; 'the sun's undering; I'd best go home-along. 'Come on, then. Up you get.
The dragoon was then in a great deal of pain for fear of being discovered, and was once going to kill the fellow, and make off; but at last resolved to carry on the humour, and having entertained the fellow with a tale of a tub, about the Swedes stealing his oats, the fellow being a-cold wanted to be gone, and he as willing to be rid of him, pretended to be very sorry he could not get over the river, and so makes off.
Oh, cursed be that ancient Counsellor thou wottest of, and cursed be I who wakened That which slept, and warmed That which was a-cold in my breath and in my breast! And cursed be this sin to which he led me! Spurn me, Rei; strike me on the cheek, spit upon me, on Meriamun, the Royal harlot who sells herself to win a crown.
O do, de, do, de, do, de; bless thee from whirlwind, star-blasting, and taking; do poor Tom some charity, whom the foul fiend vexes; there could I have him now, and there, and there again, and there; through the sharp hawthorn blows the cold wind; Tom’s a-cold! who gives any thing to poor Tom?—In this character, and with such like expressions, our hero entered the house both of great and small, claiming kindred to them, and committing all manner of frantic actions; such as beating himself, offering to eat coals of fire, running against the wall, and tearing to pieces those garments that were given him to cover his nakedness; by which means he raised very considerable contributions.
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