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They will send another boat to look for us in the course of time." But the quarters were cramped; the weather looked ugly; if the wind should rise, the cranky launch would not be a safe cradle for the night. Damon and I preferred the canoes, for they at least would float if they were capsized.
I will say that new ships are cranky and unsteady; that old and seasoned ships have their little crochets, their little fussinesses that their skippers must learn and humour if they are to get anything out of them; that even the best ships may sulk at times, shirk their work, grow unstable, perverse, and refuse to answer helm and handling.
You must surely have heard me playing a little, didn't you, dad? I didn't like to play loud when you was so sick. "'Well, well, says Uncle Cal, 'maybe I did. Maybe I did and forgot about it. My head is a little cranky at times. I heard the man in the store play it fine. I'm mighty glad you like it, Marilla. Yes, I believe I could go to sleep a while if you'll stay right beside me till I do.
"In other words," said Calvin, spurred to emulate Hubbard's epigram, and involuntarily glancing toward the latter for approval, "you think a genius is a man who is able to harness Pegasus to the plough, and make him work without kicking things to pieces." "That's about it," Irons assented; "and I think Herman is too toploftical and full of cranky theories. They say Mrs.
Wasn't that the darndest get-up he had on!" Kennicott scratched at a white smear on his hard gray sleeve. "It wasn't so bad. I wonder where he comes from? He seems to have lived in cities a good deal. Is he from the East?" "The East? Him? Why, he comes from a farm right up north here, just this side of Jefferson. I know his father slightly Adolph Valborg typical cranky old Swede farmer."
It was on this occasion that old Jolyon, turning to June, had said in one of his bursts of philosophy: "You may depend upon it, they're a cranky lot, the Forsytes and you'll find it out, as you grow older!" Timothy alone held apart, for though he ate saddle of mutton heartily, he was, he said, afraid of it.
"I've been teaching him something about smoking," the man admitted. "So I've heard," said Tom. "That's why I've dropped in here -to tell you what I think about it." "If you're going to get cranky," warned the cook, angrily, "you needn't take the trouble." "Punishing Alf isn't your work, Leon," Tom went on quietly.
The loud, confident tone in which the Waterbury ticks impresses the natives very favorably toward it, and the fact of its not opening at the back like other time- pieces, creates the impression that it is a watch that never gets cranky and out of order; quite different from the ones they carry, since their curiosity leads them to be always fooling with the works.
'Tis a two-story house, and was built in 'ninety-one." I nodded. "And afterwards you moved to Oakland?" "Yes." "Did your father ever speak of the reason for this partition in the cellar?" "He never knew of one. It was none of his business. He was merely a labourer, and did what he was paid for." "Do you know who built it?" "Some old guy. He was a cranky cuss with side-whiskers.
They were so quiet that, remembering them well, one comes to doubt that they ever existed places of repose for tired ships to dream in, places of meditation rather than work, where wicked ships the cranky, the lazy, the wet, the bad sea boats, the wild steerers, the capricious, the pig-headed, the generally ungovernable would have full leisure to take count and repent of their sins, sorrowful and naked, with their rent garments of sailcloth stripped off them, and with the dust and ashes of the London atmosphere upon their mastheads.
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