Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 4, 2025
In other eras he might have been described as swacked, stewed, stoned, smashed, crocked, cockeyed, soused, shellacked, polluted, potted, tanked, lit, stinko, pie-eyed, three sheets in the wind, or simply drunk. In his own time, Major Joseph Mauser, Category Military, Mid-Middle Caste, was drenched. Or at least rapidly getting there. He wasn't happy about it. It wasn't that kind of a binge.
And, as there are neither rickshaws nor carriages for hire in Samarinda, I was compelled to walk. It was really too hot to move. In five minutes my clothes were as wet as though I had fallen in the river. The green silk lining of my sun-hat crocked and ran down my face in emerald rivulets. When I had covered half the distance I paused beneath a waringin tree to rest.
It's not what you expect in the middle of a battle-field ... I looked at the compass carefully and saw that it was really crocked. Archie must have damaged it on a former flight and forgotten to have it changed. He had a very scared face when I pointed this out. 'Great God! he croaked for he had a fearsome cold 'we're either about Calais or near Paris or miles the wrong side of the Boche line.
You can't expect a man to be in an angelic temper when his side's been licked by thirty points. The Babe was one of those thoroughly excellent persons who always try, when possible, to make allowances for everybody. 'Well, dash it, said Charteris indignantly, 'if he had lost his hair he might have drawn the line at falling on Tony like that. It wasn't the tackling part of it that crocked him.
He could tell me that in one breath, and in the other that it was most important that I should have hope. Well! I have hope. I have faith, but it's not because of his stupid injections. I believe in God, and God knows that I need my health, and that other people need it too. My little sister! What would happen to her if I crocked now? I don't believe He will let me grow worse!"
Impossible to refuse: and with a vexed word of apology to Laura he went out. "Dear me, what an opulent lady!" said Laura with lifted eyebrows. "Who's your friend, Lulu?" Lucian drily named her. "Queen's Gate, and Sundays at the Metropole. They're shipping people, which is where the diamond ta-ra-ras come from. Oh yes, there's a husband, quite a nice fellow, crocked in the Flying Corps.
I was going to take the money to him this afternoon, only I got crocked, so I couldn't move. I wanted to get hold of you to ask you to take it for me it's too late now!" Mike's face fell. "Oh, hang it!" he said, "I'm awfully sorry. I'd no idea it was anything like that what a fool I was!
Cissy James is driving a Y.M.C.A. motor-car in Calais. Jane Brown-Gore is nursing in Salonika. We read all their letters. Personally, I can't do much, because mother has crocked up and I've got to run the Deanery. But I'm slaving from morning to night. Only last week I got up a concert for the wounded.
'Where have I seen that face before? said a voice. Tony Graham looked up from his bag. 'Hullo, Allen, he said, 'what the dickens are you up here for? 'I was rather thinking of doing a little boxing. If you've no objection, of course. 'But you ought to be on a bed of sickness, and that sort of thing. I heard you'd crocked yourself. 'So I did. Nothing much, though.
"Master Gerald!" it was Eliza's voice in his ears "it's seven o clock and another fine day, and there's been another burglary My cats alive!" she screamed, as she drew up the blind and turned towards the bed; "look at his bed, all crocked with black, and him not there!" "Oh, Jiminy!" It was a scream this time. Kathleen came running from her room; Jimmy sat up in his bed and rubbed his eyes.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking