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Updated: May 26, 2025
"It seems to me that when a fellow is chock-full of anything he oughtn't to feel much hunger." "I've often thought that, but you can't fool nature that way." "If it gets any worse we can shoot the ponies and devour them." "Why both of them?" "Because it would take a whole one to satisfy me.
You don't mean to say you've brought in another batch of boys to be examined?" "Yes, sir," replied the sick-berth steward, opening his mouth, and closing it again with a sort of snap, and uttering the two words as one. "Three of 'em now, sir!" "Why, that makes the fourth lot this morning!" exclaimed the other plaintively. "The ship'll be chock-full if they keep on coming in like this.
'But it is inconceivable that beings who possess neither bill nor feathers, who have no wings and walk on two legs, should believe that they, like the birds, have an immortal soul." "All the same," said Pradel, "when I hear the organ, I am chock-full of religious ideas." "Requiem æternam dona eis, Domine."
Money a-flowin', drinks passin' over the counter one way and the coin the other, the gamblin'-houses an' the theatre chock-full, an' women, any kind you please. But there ain't a soul left now." The snow thinned still more, and the buildings rose before them gaunt and grim.
"But such fun and such a rum crowd you never saw! Why, there are cowboys, ranchers, prospectors, coppers, ex-sheriffs, sailors, mine-owners, men from every college in the country, tennis champions, football-players, rowing-men, polo-players, planters, African explorers, big-game hunters, ex-revenue-officers, and Indian-fighters, besides any number of others who have led the wildest kinds of life, all chock-full of stories, and ready to fire 'em off at a touch of the trigger.
The girls all stopped talking, and gazed up at Cassandra with astonishment in their faces. "I have overheard you," said Miss Weldon calmly. "I presume you are alluding to Miss Craven?" "We are talking about Ruth Craven," said Kate Rourke; "and you will excuse me, Cassie, but I never saw a girl more chock-full of pride. She is so conceited that she is intolerable."
"I hope you didn't tell Miss Batchelor that?" "Yes, I did though rather!" He smiled in spite of himself. "What did she do?" "Oh, she just stared over her shoulder; you know her way." "Look here, Molly, you must not go about saying that sort of thing. People here don't understand it; they'll only think " "What?" "Never mind what they'll think. The world is chock-full of wickedness, my child.
"That is so, sir; and they say as they are chock-full of pheasants. He has a lot of keepers, and four years ago there was a desperate fight there. Two keepers and three poachers got shot, and two others were caught; they were tried at the 'sizes for murder and hanged. He is a regular bully, he is, but he ain't no coward.
Was it the old man?" asked Brace hurriedly. "Blast the old man! It was only one of them Mexican packers chock-full of whisky, and trying to hold up the house. What are you thinking of? We shall be late." In spite of his weakness, the wounded man hurriedly urged Brace forward, until they reached the latter's lodgings. To his surprise, the horse and buggy were already before the door.
They passed out into the darkness together. "What are you waiting for?" said Dunn impatiently, as Brace, who was supporting him by the arm, suddenly halted at the corner of the house. "Some one was listening did you not see him? Was it the old man?" asked Brace hurriedly. "Blast the old man! It was only one of them Mexican packers chock-full of whiskey, and trying to hold up the house.
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