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Updated: May 17, 2025
And his lips were like the graven lips of a Hindu temple god, self-satisfied, self-worshiping, contemptuous and cruel. He chuckled again, as Brown finished his inspection. "So that crittur's holy, is he? Well, tell him that I'm set here to watch these crossroads.
"It's too fur off," said Baldwin, "to make out the crittur's phisog; but if it warn't for his size, I'd say he was a monkey." "P'r'aps it's an ourang-outang," suggested Corkey. "Or a gorilla," said O'Rook. "Oh!" exclaimed Polly, in a low, eager voice of surprise, "I do believe it is Watty Wilkins!" "Polly is right," said Philosopher Jack; "I'd know Watty's action among a thousand."
I do believe the crittur's Old Nick himself!" "So don't I," said the other; "for it is quite unnatural to suppose the devil would ever take part against his own children." "Perhaps," said Doe, "you don't believe in the crittur?" "Good Jack, honest Jack," replied his companion, "I am no such ass."
"Pray for them that 'spitefully use you, the good book says," says Tom. "Pray for 'em!" said Aunt Chloe; "Lor, it's too tough! I can't pray for 'em." "It's natur, Chloe, and natur 's strong," said Tom, "but the Lord's grace is stronger; besides, you oughter think what an awful state a poor crittur's soul 's in that'll do them ar things, you oughter thank God that you an't like him, Chloe.
This is a job for a surgeon and for a right smart one an' all. There be only one man I know who could save yon crittur's life. And that's John Dolittle." "Who is John Dolittle?" I asked. "Is he a vet?" "No," said the mussel-man. "He's no vet. Doctor Dolittle is a nacheralist." "What's a nacheralist?"
It's said a' body jumped back frae him in a sudden dread, except poor Angus, the other piper, wha was busy tuning up for 'The Bonny House. Weel, Angus had got no farther in the tune than the first skirl when Lauchlan louped at him, and ripped up the startled crittur's pipes wi' his dirk. The pipes gae a roar o' agony like a stuck swine, and fell gasping on the floor.
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