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Updated: June 11, 2025
Come let us see what vein you are in." At the same time, drawing off his large cavalry glove, he handed the pistol to his friend. "A double Napoleon you don't hit the thumb." "Done," said the other, adjusting the weapon in his hand. The action was scarcely performed, when the bettor flung the glove into the air with all his force.
He's a sure thing bettor, he is; odds don't make no difference to him, the shorter the better that's when his own boy's got the mount." "It's all right to be wise after the race," grunted the fat man. "G'wan! the stable didn't have a penny on Lucretia last time; an' what do you suppose made her favorite to-day?" queried the Tout, derisively.
It was useless for us to sit there and speculate; so after another hasty glance over the island, with no bettor luck than before, we returned to our camp, and got ready for passing the night, which was fast approaching. As soon as it was dark, however, and while Mr.
The asylum which was Marsa's prison was so constantly in his mind that he felt the necessity of flight, in order not to allow his weakness to get the bettor of him, lest he should attempt to see Marsa again. "What a coward I am!" he thought.
The asylum which was Marsa's prison was so constantly in his mind that he felt the necessity of flight, in order not to allow his weakness to get the bettor of him, lest he should attempt to see Marsa again. "What a coward I am!" he thought.
'I desire to share the same lot and fortune as has befallen my companions-in-arms, I answered. 'Nay, that is but a sullen way to take your deliverance, cried the smaller officer. 'The situation is as flat as sutler's beer. Otway would have made a bettor thing of it. Can you not rise to the occasion? Where is she? 'She! Who? I asked. 'She. The she. The woman.
I feel that, with my present emaciated frame and somewhat shattered constitution, it is bettor that my life should be brought to an end than that I should drag out a miserable existence in the prison dens of Portland. Thus it is, my lords, I accept the verdict. Of course my acceptance of it is unnecessary, but I am satisfied with it. And now I shall close.
At last, however, he discovered, that victory brought him more honour than profit: resolving, therefore, to be rich as well as illustrious, he replenished his pockets by another mortgage, became on a sudden a daring bettor, and resolving not to trust a jockey with his fortune, rode his horse himself, distanced two of his competitors the first heat, and at last won the race by forcing his horse on a descent to full speed at the hazard of his neck.
"Hold on! Hold on!" protested the bettor as Shanklin started to sweep the money away with one hand and gather in his tricky dice with the other. For Hun never left those dice any longer on the board than necessary. Slavens threw himself forward on the table, his elbows spread, scrutinizing the dice as if he had not yet figured the total.
He was never weary of singing the praises of Lacedæmon to the Athenians, and especially, we are told by Stesimbrotus, when he wished to reproach them, or to encourage them to do bettor, he used to say, "That is not how the Lacedæmonians do it." This habit caused many Athenians to regard him with jealousy and dislike: but the most important ground of accusation against him was the following.
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