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As for the apple-pudding, it had vanished altogether; and the dish was licked as clean as if Boxer, the yard-dog, had been at it in his hungriest mood. "And my white table-cloth oh, my clean white table-cloth! What can have been done to it?" cried she, in amazement.
Does he tell fortunes by tea-leaves or by the colour of your eyes?" "Laugh away, John Boxer," said Mrs. Gimpson, icily; "but I shouldn't have been alive now if it hadn't ha' been for Mr. Silver's warnings." "Mother stayed in bed for the first ten days in July," explained Mrs. Boxer, "to avoid being bit by a mad dog." "Tchee tchee tchee," said the hapless Mr.
They show such clear grit, it fairly frightens me. It makes my hair stand right up on eend to see ministers do that 'ere. Said he, 'Sam, says he, 'when I first went to Cambridge, there was a boxer and wrastler came there, and he beat every one wherever he went. Well, old Mr.
But the bow with which General Ivolgin greeted him irritated him anew; he frowned, and decided to be absolutely silent. As to the rest, one was a man of thirty, the retired officer, now a boxer, who had been with Rogojin, and in his happier days had given fifteen roubles at a time to beggars. Evidently he had joined the others as a comrade to give them moral, and if necessary material, support.
He turned his face from the other. "Joe...!" Nadine said in an alarmed warning. The other's contemptuous cuff, unsuspected, nearly bowled Joe completely from his chair. As it was, he barely caught himself. His attacker shuffled backward and Joe recognized the trained step of the professional boxer.
Of course everyone believed it, and such a story would get to the foreigners in Peking without any trouble. "Now to come back to the question of the Boxer Rising. How badly I was treated by my own servants.
There's a small order just come in, for barking dogs; and I should wish to go as close to Natur' as I could, for sixpence. That's all. Never mind, Mum. It happened opportunely, that Boxer, without receiving the proposed stimulus, began to bark with great zeal.
Very well, said the boxer; now here I stand, says he, in the path, right slap afore you; if you pass round me, then I take it as a sign that you are afeard on me, and if you keep the path, why then you must first put me out that's a fact.
It is a well-known fact that during the Boxer rebellion the Empress Dowager was so influenced by the promises of the Boxers to drive out all the foreigners that she sent out some very unwise edicts that they should be massacred in the provinces.
I suppose you'll be telling me next that you are really fond of that man who fought you at the Inn." "He was a good boxer," was the enthusiastic reply. "And you like him?" "I might if I knew him." "Can you fight everybody like that, and still have love for them?" "Self-control is the better word. Unless a man can learn that, he had better stay out of the ring.
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