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To-night, alas and woe! thou see'st me a ragged loon, a sorry wight the meanest rogue would scorn to bow to, and the very children jeer at and all by reason of a lewd, black-avised clapper-claw that doth flourish him a mighty axe O, a vile, seditious fellow ripe for the gallows." "Ah! with an axe say'st thou, sir Bailiff?"
The friar sat him down in the shade of the willows and sighing, mopped his face again; quoth he: "Now may the curse of Saint Augustine, Saint Benedict, Saint Cuthbert and Saint Dominic light upon him for a lewd fellow, a clapper-claw, a thieving dog who hath no regard for Holy Church forsooth a most vicious rogue, monstrum nulla virtute redemptum a vitiis!"
"And you can always depend on a certain number of sore-heads to make fools of themselves here you could depend on it in the old days; it's worse in these times when everybody is ready to pitch into a row and clapper-claw right and left simply because they're aching for a fight."
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. A long-legged "son of a gun" of a Yankee had a "clapper-claw," or handshake, with a planting attorney in a kind of four-posted gig, canopied in leather and curtained clumsily.
We've got enough to endure at the hands of the men, the Lord knows, so I hold we hadn't ought to clapper-claw one another, and it isn't often you'll find me running down another woman. But I never had much use for Rose Elliott. She was spoiled to begin with, believe ME, and she was nothing but a lazy, selfish, whining creature. Frank was no hand to work, so they were poor as Job's turkey. Poor!
"Make an end of the game laws, Benedict throw wide the forests to all who will " "But master, thus shall every clapper-claw rogue be free to kill for his base sport thy goodly deer, or belike a hart of ten, fit for sport of kings " "Well, let them in this thing be kings. But I do hold a man's life dearer than a stag's.
Here be caves and caverns enow to hide an army, and rocky passage-ways, narrow and winding i' the dark, where we four might hold all Black Ivo's powers at bay from now till Gabriel's trump an we had food enow!" Quoth Beltane: "'Tis a fair thought that, and I've heard there be many outlaws in the woods hereabouts?" "Yea, forsooth. And each and every a clapper-claw, a rogue in faith.
There was a young naval officer in full dress, gold-buckled shoes, white trousers, short jacket with gold swab on shoulders, dress-sword and smart gait making for supper at King's House. A long-legged "son of a gun" of a Yankee had a "clapper-claw," or handshake, with a planting attorney in a kind of four-posted gig, canopied in leather and curtained clumsily.
"Aye but what of thee, master?" "I? O, I'm for the wild-wood, to a wild life and wilder doings, being myself a wild man, henceforth, lawful food for flame or gibbet, kin to every clapper-claw rogue and rascal 'twixt here and Mortain." "Nay master, within Thrasfordham ye shall laugh at Black Ivo and all his powers let us then to Thrasfordham, beseech thee!"
"Be hanged for a murderous-looking rogue, a lousy thief, a wastrel and a hangdog knave!" says he all in a breath. "All true enough!" says I. "And now, open the gate!" "Be danged for a prigging gipsy 'A Gad! I'll have ye clapped i' the pillory for a black-visaged clapper-claw!" "Unbar!" says I, "Or it shall go plaguy ill wi' you when I come in."
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