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"I can go as wet as any man if need be, but I like to keep a dry jacket when I can. The wind is just howling outside. I reckon this is going to be a bigger storm nor ordinary, and I have seen some biggish storms on the Mississippi too.
"Ah, you may shout `Tom! till you're as hoarse as a bull, Master Aleck, but that seems to be about the bearings of it; and now I think more on it, that's about the course I means to steer. Two on 'em, you says as you saw?" "Yes, two biggish lads." "Sculling hard?" "Yes, the one who stood up in the boat was working the oar as hard as he could." "Which means as he was in a hurry, sir."
Outside, the din of battle, the ceaseless crack of the rifle, and the roar of cannon was going on as usual, without interruption. "How do you feel now, Ned?" Dick asked. "All right, Dick. I have got a biggish bump on the side of my head, and feel a little muddled still, but that is nothing.
"They put him to bed," confessed Jessamy guiltily, "but he's nice an' comfortable, Ann, an'll be right as nine pence in th' morning." "What sort of a person was he?" I enquired. "A biggish chap, a bit too round an' wi' too much neck." "How often did ye hit him, Jess?" "Four times, Ann! Four times, an' one would ha' been plenty. Four times an' me preachin' forgiveness an' brotherly love "
I've hardly spoken to you. Have you ever been abroad?" "No." "Well, I'll tell you and the kids some of my adventures while you're tubbing 'em. Lead on." She was at the night-nursery door. Evidently this man would not see her conventional reason for not wishing him at the tubbing. Angela had grown a biggish girl since he went away. She said, "Please not to-night."
I ran down the avenue, my feet cracking on the hard snow, planning hard my programme for the next hour. I found the village half a dozen houses with one biggish place that looked like an inn. The moon was rising, and as I approached I saw that there was some kind of a store. A funny little two-seated car was purring before the door, and I guessed this was also the telegraph office.
Where, on the other 'and, there are biggish boys and gals about the place, well it wouldn't do them any 'arm to be taught to play a little less, and to look after themselves a little more. It's just arranging things that's all that's wanted." "You remind me of a family I once knew, Mrs. Wilkins," I said; "it consisted of the usual father and mother, and of five sad, healthy girls.
We went round to a stable-yard, and I got into a four- wheeled chaise. His wife sat with him in front, and a biggish boy sat with me behind. When we came to a guide-post which pointed down his lane, I got out, and was dismissed in the dark with the observation uttered good- naturedly and jovially, but not very helpfully that he was "afraid I should have a wettish walk."
"Your wife's Danish," said Lasse, admiringly. "And you've got a cow too?" "Yes, it's a biggish place here," said Kalle, drawing himself up. "There's a cat belonging to the establishment too, and as many rats as it cares to eat." His wife now appeared, breathless, and looking in astonishment at the visitors. "Yes, the midwife's gone again," said Kalle.
Both men and women contrive to lay by a competence at a wage rate of from eight to fifteen cents a day. If let alone, the tea-plant would grow to be a tree eighteen or twenty feet high, but by generous top pruning it is kept down to three feet, thus becoming a squat bush possessing a biggish leafing area.
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