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She was just a nice, comfortable, handy size twelve hundred tons register steel- built, and of exceptional strength, classed 100 A1 at Lloyd's; a beamy rather than a deep vessel, with very fine ends.
My God, did you ever see anything so quick? They drilled through each other like lightning." Mac looked him over with dry contempt. "My friend, y'u're too tender for a genuwine A1 bad man. If I was handing y'u a bunch of advice it would be to get back to the prosaic paths of peace right prompt. And while we're on the subject I'll borrow your guns.
"Hullo!" he cried, as soon as he came into the kitchen-parlour, where the principal meal of the day was invariably partaken of, "I've got some news for you." "A ship?" I said, questioningly. "Yes an A1 too, my hearty." "Hurrah!" I exclaimed "Going a long voyage?" "To Callao and back again, on a round trip."
Now he set a match to it, and as the first blue clouds curled upward a peculiarly aromatic fragrance filled the room. "That stuff of yours is A1," Richardson remarked, with an appreciative sniff. "Pretty costly, I suppose?" "Yes. My one extravagance. A special brand that I get out from home, a big batch at a time. Nothing like it for settling a man's nerves in the small hours."
Elliot, a white-haired man of distinguished bearing, and a gigantic young viking with tawny hair and beard and powerful hands. "That's Gunther, an A1 sculptor," said McEwan, indicating the viking, who was looking at Mary as his ancestors might have looked at a vision of Freia. "They're well matched, eh, James?" "As well as she could be," the other answered gravely. McEwan looked at his friend.
Drink besides, as it renders some men hyper-sensitive, made Huish callous. And it would almost have required a blow to make him quit his purpose. "Pretty business, ain't it?" he continued; "Dyvis on the lush? Must say I thought you gave it 'im A1 to-day. He didn't like it a bit; took on hawful after you were gone. 'Ere, says I, ''old on, easy on the lush, I says.
The Members of Parliament for Grovebury, and the Mayor, and many other important people were to be present, to say nothing of parents and visitors. The pupils, assembled in the freshly color-washed dressing-rooms, greeted one another excitedly. "How do you like it?" "Oh, it's topping!" "Beats the old place hollow!" "There's room to turn around here!" "And the lockers are just A1."
As for the old lady, you know her as well as I do. She's only the one fault. If you don't keep your eye lifting she would give away the roof off the station. Well, it seems it's natural in Kanakas. She's turned a powerful big woman now, and could throw a London bobby over her shoulder. But that's natural in Kanakas too, and there's no manner of doubt that she's an A1 wife. Mr.
The stalk or filament of the stamen. a1. The pollen-producing half-anther, eo. The elongated connective joining it to the sterile half-anther. 4. Section through a flower showing ov. the ovary; nec. the nectary or honey-glands; st. the style; li. the lip of the flower on which the bee alights. 5.
He stood with his coat-tails to the fire, his coarse-grained face beaming like an extra lamp. "The people and those croquettes were A1. The way Mary's picked up French cookery is wonderful." "Yes, especially considering she denies herself butter. But I'm not thinking of that nor of our guests." He looked at her wonderingly.
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