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At intervals he jerked the reins like a large strange toy, and his strident voice said: "Hé!" to the stout white horse, which paid no attention whatever. Once the beast stumbled and the pearlike lump of flesh insulted it, saying: "Hé! veux tu, cochon!"
Stossen reluctantly; in moments of flurry such French as she knew was not under very good control. "La, a l'autre cote de la porte, est un cochon " "Un cochon? Ah, le petit charmant!" exclaimed Matilda with enthusiasm. "Mais non, pas du tout petit, et pas du tout charmant; un bete feroce "
The Committee of Public Safety had no intention of throwing away the fruits of victory; and two members of the Convention, Cochon and Ramel, were despatched to Holland to report upon the condition of affairs. They arrived at the Hague on February 7.
And, to his astonishment, I fumbled in my pocket, produced the stuff and lit a pipe. I smoked on placidly, looking at him and wondering what his thoughts might be. "An Inglis" perhaps he was saying to himself "one of those who joke and talk in such friendly fashion, and then, when it cornes to a you's worth of kif a single puff of his pipe...! Sacre cochon! That is how they grow rich."
'In dere, cried the stout man, pointing behind him into the restaurant, 'a man, a how you say? yes, sacked. An employe whom I yesterday sacked, today he returns. I say to him, "Cochon, va!" 'What's that? 'I say, "Peeg, go!" How you say? Yes, "pop off!" I say, "Peeg, pop off!" But he no, no; he sits and will not go. Come in, officer, and expel him.
"Pig cochon!" yelled Jarette, and there was a flash of light and a sharp report as he fired a pistol to hit the sailor, or perhaps only to frighten us, for no harm was done. "Silence, man, don't exasperate him," whispered a voice from close by where I sat, and I knew that if I raised my hand I could have touched Mr Frewen. "All right, sir," growled Bob, and Jarette spoke now.
"The motto of the concern is, 'Vous ne pouvez pas faire un sifflet de la queue d'un cochon; and I think you have fully proved the truth of the saying. The meaning of the sentence is one of the secrets of the order. Do you promise not to reveal it?" "I do, for one," laughed Lindsley. "I haven't the least idea myself what it means." "Nor I," added all the others." "Then you will all be discreet.
The death of Ethelbert, in the midst of the crisis, placed the perilous crown on Alfred's head. Ethelbert left infant sons, but the monarchy was elective, though one of the line of Cerdic was always chosen; and those were the days of the real king, the ruler judge, and captain of the people, not of what Napoleon called the cochon a l'engrais a cinq millions par an.
I sends un cartel you comprends to ze gros bon ami de ma Marie, ce cochon d'un epicier! We meets in ze Bois: I gives him one leetel tierce en carte dat spoils his lovemakings for awhile; and, I leeves France again for evers dat is, unless ma patrie and ze sacred cause of ze Republique Francaise calls upon me but, not till den! So, you sees, my youngish friends, dat oders suffer like yourselfs.
Squatted in a half circle on the ground, they soon disposed of it. As we rode forward on the afternoon journey, several of our late guests accompanied us. Among the rest was a huge bloated savage of more than three hundred pounds' weight, christened La Cochon, in consideration of his preposterous dimensions and certain corresponding traits of his character.
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