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Her bantam hens were remiss in zeal, and she was always delighted when they accomplished anything. She took Thea into the sitting-room, very warm and smelling of food, and brought her a plateful of little Christmas cakes, made according to old and hallowed formulae, and put them before her while she warmed her feet.
I was minded to tell him to clean the whitefish for our supper, but reflected in time that he would undoubtedly do it badly, so I spoke to François instead. But when I would have gone away the Englishman followed. He clapped me lightly on the shoulder, a familiarity he had not ventured before, and he put his head on one side with a little bantam swagger.
Their object, after seeking for Amine was to find out the direction of Ternate; the king of which they knew to be at variance with the Portuguese, who had a fort and factory at Tidore, not very far distant from it; and from thence to obtain a passage in one of the Chinese junks, which, on their way to Bantam, called at that island.
In sooth, a half-bred Pegasus, and far gone In spavin, curb, and half a hundred woes. And Byron's style is 'jolter-headed jargon; His verse is 'only bearable in prose. So living poets write of those that are gone, And o'er the Eagle thus the Bantam crows; And Swinburne ends where Verisopht began, By owning you 'a very clever man.
There was soon to be work in other regions for the hardy Hollander such as was to make the name of Heemskerk a word to conjure with down to the latest posterity. Meantime he returned to his own country to take part in the great industrial movements which were to make this year an epoch in commercial history. The conquerors of Mendoza and deliverers of Bantam had however not paused in their work.
"You strike that swan if you dare!" he cried, fiercely, glaring up at the would-be murderer with indignant eyes. "Hello, bantam! You after twenty dollars, too?" sneered the man. "No; I'm after this swan's life, and I'm going to have it!" growled the boy. "The bird is mine!" "Yes, Jimmy," said his father, approaching sadly. "And it's the only one that has life.
Weltevrede, Ryswyk, and the other villages, or rather, faubourgs, south of Batavia, belong to the second class; Batavia itself, Bantam, Cheribon, Tubang, and Banjowangie, to the third, or worst division. And Dr.
If this is your only objection to our match you may surely give us your consent, for any danger or trial which I may incur in marrying Gabriel will not weigh with me one featherweight." "Here's a young bantam!" exclaimed the old soldier, smiling at my warmth. "It's easy to defy danger when you don't know what the danger is." "What is it, then?" I asked, hotly.
The ungrateful Winton flushed angrily, and King loafed out to take five o'clock call-over, after which he invited little Hartopp to tea and a talk on chlorine-gas. Hartopp accepted the challenge like a bantam, and the two went up to King's study about the same time as Winton returned to the form-room beneath it to finish his lines.
"Hallo! good people all, how are 'ee? morning morning. Boys, d'ee know that the saw-mill's come to grief?" "No, are you in earnest, father?" cried Tim, jumping up. "In earnest! Of course I am. Pretty engineers you are. Sawed its own bed in two, or burst itself. Don't know which, and what's more I don't care. Come, Martha, my bantam chicken, let's have a cup of tea.
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