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Meanwhile the clergyman scratched his cheek with one hand and fiddled the pen with the other and the verger coughed protestingly. "The dog cart's just outside," said Mr. Voules. "No walking home to-day for the bride, Mam." "Not going to drive us?" cried Annie. "The happy pair, Miss. Your turn soon." "Get out!" said Annie. "I shan't marry ever." "You won't be able to help it.
"Phil's goin', and I'm goin'. He's jest told me that the cart's comin' back for the kitchen fixin's and his things, and him and Bill Hammond is goin' to Sadler's with it; and if he goes, I goes." This speech had a very different effect upon its two hearers.
Why were the Presbyterians chased like the partridge over the highlands of Scotland the Methodists pumped, and stoned, and pelted with rotten eggs the Quakers incarcerated in filthy prisons, beaten, whipped at the cart's tail, banished and hung?
He proposed, it is said, that Baxter should be whipped through London at the cart's tail. The majority thought that an eminent divine, who, a quarter of a century before, had been offered a mitre, and who was now in his seventieth year, would be sufficiently punished for a few sharp words by fine and imprisonment.
It was not his natural voice, but he was so accustomed to a peremptory tone now that he could use no other. "We want more pomp here. Who ever heard of the festal oxen being tied to a cart's tail? Why, the butcher ought to lead the pair of them by the horns, one on each side, and you ought to stick lemons on the tips of their horns, and tie ribbons round them!" "Bravo, little brother!
The sergeant stirred the pile of gravel on the quay thoughtfully with his foot Then, peering over Kinsella's shoulder, he took a look at the gravel which still remained in the boat. "Tell me this, now, Joseph Antony," he said. "Who might that gravel be for? It's the third day you're after bringing in a load and there's ne'er a cart's been down for it yet?" "I couldn't say who it might be for."
It'll take time, but it's not quite a hopeless smash. Meanwhile, the Mole and I will go to an inn and find comfortable rooms where we can stay till the cart's ready, and till your nerves have recovered their shock. 'Police-station! Complaint!'murmured Toad dreamily. 'Me COMPLAIN of that beautiful, that heavenly vision that has been vouchsafed me!
Engravings of him, looking out from the pillory, and writhing at the cart's tail, were circulated all over Europe; and epigrammatists, in many languages, made merry with the doctoral title which he pretended to have received from the University of Salamanca, and remarked that, since his forehead could not be made to blush, it was but reasonable that his back should do so.
Fleming, my cart's at the gate, and I've got business, and she's my wife." The farmer called for Mrs. Sumfit to come up and pack Dahlia's box, and the forlorn woman made her way to the bedroom. All the house was silent. Rhoda closed her sight, and she thought: "Does God totally abandon us?" She let her father hear: "Father, you know that you are killing your child." "I hear ye, my lass," said he.
Then with that one pitiful cry she sank among the close-pressing crowd; but her hands, by the cord's constraint, still lifted themselves as might a drowning swimmer's; and the grey horse the one other innocent creature in that procession plodded forward, dragging her now senseless body at the cart's tail. "You swine!" It does a man good sometimes to get in his blow.
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