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"Why, massa, him great t'ing dat-what big old massa judge send buckra-man to get whip, so color foke laugh when 'e ketch 'im on de back, ca' bim; an' massa wid de cock-up hat on 'e head put on big vip jus' so," said the old negro. It was the whipping-post, where white men, for small thefts, were branded with ignominy and shame. "Are you a slave, old man?" inquired the Captain.
'Arthur! is it you? and the brothers' hands were locked together. 'Here is a gentleman you know something of, and who has thought very much of you, continued Arthur, proudly. 'There, is not he like her? as he tried to give a cock-up to the limp, flapping straw hat, under shade of which Johnnie was glowing up to his curls. 'Her very look! said John. 'How is she, Arthur, and all of them?
Over and over went Boxer in the grass, having such a roll, and panting and lolling out his great red tongue with excitement, and then working away with both paws at his collar till he got it over his little cock-up ears, and then he gave his freed head such a shake that the ears rattled again.
If you are a wise man you'll wait for an English or an Irish girl, for though she may have a cock-up nose, and weigh three times as much as this young beauty, she'll make you a far better wife." The expedition was successful.
She was a low, little vessel, with considerable beam, and a large lateen mainsail, and a jib on a little cock-up bowsprit something like a 'Mudian rig. "She's a suspicious-looking craft; and if it were not that we are well-armed, and could sink her with a broadside, I should not much like her neighbourhood, sir," answered the second mate.
By his side appeared, when the curtain drew up, a curious-looking clown, with a huge face, with all sorts of twists and curls in it, great big ears, a cock-up nose, and a short stumpy beard. This extraordinary physiognomy was covered with a high cap, which had a tassel and bells.
Jack and Bill had reason to consider themselves for a time persons of some importance, though they had no wish to be so. At last an officer in a handsome uniform entered. He was a red-haired man, with queer twinkling eyes, and a cock-up nose, anything but of a Roman type.
These have a very odd sort of twist or cock-up in the middle, just above the part where the seeds lie; and they open at the top by ten small teeth, pointed obliquely outward for no apparent reason. Yet every point has a meaning of its own for all that.
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