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Updated: May 31, 2025
"I dreamt I dropped into a bang-up restaurant and ordered beefsteak, fried potatoes, pie, and " A groan came from one of the gun's crew, who was within hearing, and "Kid" lowered his voice. "Hit him where he lived, I guess," he chuckled. "Well, I woke up so hungry that I couldn't stand it any longer. I looked up the Jap and struck him for a hand-out.
He was especially anxious about the sufficiency of the material he had gathered for a story, fearing that if he failed to reach the caribou grounds there would not be enough to satisfy his publishers. I told him I thought he already had enough for a "bang-up" story. "Anyway," I said, "we'll reach the caribou grounds, and see the Indians yet.
He showed them how the entire control of the ship could be accomplished from the conning or steering tower by the turning of one wheel or another. "Rattlesnakes an' mud turtles, but she sure is a bang-up affair," observed Andy Sudds. "But about that gun " "That's so. I promised you a gun in exchange for the one you lost," said Mr. Henderson. "Wait a moment." He was gone a little while.
"I am sure we shall have a dandy time," he said. "I was on a houseboat trip once, down in Florida, and it was simply great." "What do you think about the Lanings and the Stanhopes going with us?" "That will be nice. We certainly ought to have a bang-up time," answered Fred, enthusiastically.
And he had not the look that speaks of success. Seeing him, Bixby did not think as people had used to think, "This is a young man who will do big things some day." "When must the plans be filed?" The chairman told him, and added, "You understand, of course, they have to be bang-up up-to-date in every particular, and impressive?"
"So you won, did you?" said one of the boys to Bert. "Good enough." "We are going to try it over again," put in Charley. "Come on." In the crowd was Danny Rugg, who had a brand-new sled. "I guess I can beat anybody!" cried Danny boastfully. "This new sled of mine is bang-up." "What slang!" whispered Nan, to Bert. "If I were you I shouldn't race with him."
"Senior Wranglers at Cambridge, not Oxford," said the scholar, with a knowing air; and would probably have been more confidential, but that suddenly there appeared on the cliff in a tax-cart, drawn by a bang-up pony, dressed in white flannel coats, with mother-of-pearl buttons, his friends the Tutbury Pet and the Rottingdean Fibber, with three other gentlemen of their acquaintance, who all saluted poor James there in the carriage as he sate.
The out-and-out young gentleman is usually no great dresser, his instructions to his tailor being all comprehended in the one general direction to 'make that what's-a-name a regular bang-up sort of thing. For some years past, the favourite costume of the out-and-out young gentleman has been a rough pilot coat, with two gilt hooks and eyes to the velvet collar; buttons somewhat larger than crown-pieces; a black or fancy neckerchief, loosely tied; a wide-brimmed hat, with a low crown; tightish inexpressibles, and iron-shod boots.
"An' he was scratchin' away for dear life on some sort of a fryin'-pan thing, an' I leans over to James an' I sez, 'James, sez I, 'ain't it for all the world like gratin' nutmegs? sez I. Well, we were bang-up in the very front seat, for James Turner always believes in gettin' all he pays for, an' the fellows was makin' the awfullest clatter, an' you know, James Turner's as deaf as a post, anyhow, an' well, now, if any o' you scalawags lets this out I'll massacree the whole lot o' you!"
"You don't mean it!" says I. "Yes, Sir. Nice, bright feller that didn't know me from Adam," says Uncle Jimmy. "Took me ridin' in one of these here taxicabs and bought me a bang-up hotel dinner. And if it hadn't been that I knew of a Methodist minister once who lost twenty dollars in gold mine stocks, hanged if I wouldn't have invested heavy!
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