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In a minute or two he heard the voice of the bullocky admonishing Bally and Spot with a burst of alliterative invective, and presently the leaders came labouring out of the darkness, the great red bullocks, with bowed heads, moving slowly and with that suggestion of impassive invincibility that goes always with a big team of good working bullocks in action.
"Sit down," countered Mrs. Inche amiably; "don't be afraid I don't bite. Now you know who I am, but before you go, I mean to know who you are." "Michael Monahan, madam." This was the first alliterative combination to pop into his optimistic mind. "Can that," retorted the lady serenely "solder it up tight, along with the business of pretending to be a cop. It won't get you anything.
"Let him ride to the devil he has horse of mine, and spurs of his own. Any more?" "The whole antechamber is full, my lord knights and squires, doctors and dicers." "Counts, captains, and clergymen." "You are alliterative, Jerningham," said the Duke; "and that is a proof you are poetical. Hand me my writing things."
He drew pictures of the healthy Rome when turbulent, the doomed quiescent. Rome struggling grasped the world. Rome stagnant invited Goth and Vandal. So forth: alliterative antitheses of the accustomed pamphleteer. At last her chance arrived. His opposition sketch of Inaction was refreshed by an analysis of the character of Hamlet. Then he reverted to Hamlet's promising youth.
We learn what could not have been new even in 1579, that 'in misery it is a great comfort to have a companion; that 'a new broom sweepeth clean; that 'delays breed dangers; that 'nothing is so perilous as procrastination; that 'a burnt child dreadeth the fire; that it is well not to make comparisons 'lest comparisons should seem odious; that 'it is too late to shut the stable door when the steed is stolen; that 'many things fall between the cup and the lip; and that 'marriages are made in heaven, though consummated on earth. With these old friends come others, not altogether familiar of countenance, and quaintly archaic in their dress: 'It must be a wily mouse that shall breed in the cat's ear; 'It is a mad hare that will be caught with a tabor, and a foolish bird that stayeth the laying salt on her tail, and a blind goose that cometh to the fox's sermon. Lyly would sometimes translate a proverb; he does not tell us that fine words butter no parsnips, but says, 'Fair words fat few, which is delightfully alliterative, but hardly to be accounted an improvement.
I was down in the corral one day, saddling Shylock so named because he tried to exact a pound of flesh every time I turned my back or in other ways seemed off my guard and when I was looping up the latigo I discovered that the alliterative Mr. Potter was roosting on the fence, watching me with those needle-pointed eyes of his. I wondered if he was about to prepare another report for dad.
She opened the souvenir, and looked idly at the small, exquisitely fine steel engravings, the alliterative verses, the tales of sentiment beginning with long preambles couched in choicest English. She shut the book with a little weary sigh, and looked irresolutely at her sleeping aunt, then at the chair by the north window.
But I fear that you are going to show an irreverent attitude of mind toward the local divinities." "And what may they be?" "Two in particular, an alliterative couple, Family and Furniture." "Why not add Folly to the number?" Leigh suggested. "An instinct of self-preservation should prevent such an addition.
When Sir Edward Stanley led the war-smiths of Lancashire and Cheshire to Flodden Field, the men of Wigan are mentioned as going with the rest. And among those "fellows fearce and freshe for feight," of whom the quaint old alliterative ballad describes the array:
Henry employs an alliterative head writer on the Beacon, and we wondered whether he had decided to use "Wichita Weeps," or "State Stands Sorrowing." If he used the latter, it would make two lines and that would require a deck head. We could not decide, so we began talking of serious things.
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