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It commanded the river, the Zwin, and the sea approach by Sluys and Damme; the course of the various canals; and the roads to Ghent, Antwerp, Tournai, and Courtrai. The Belfry contains a famous set of chimes, the mechanism of which may be inspected by the visitor. He will have frequent opportunities of hearing the beautiful and mellow carillon, perhaps to excess.
If it be any consolation to you, no one shall be preferred to you. 'Oh, but, damme, the desert air and all that! Lord Almeric cried, fanning himself violently with his hat. 'I oh, you mustn't talk like that, you know.
"....very mysterious person," Sir Mortimer was saying, "nobody knows him, devilish odd, eh, Tressider? Tufton Green dubbed him the 'Galloping Countryman, what do you think of the name?" "Could have suggested a better, curse me if I couldn't, yes, Carnaby, oh damme!
I'll have no Jemmy Twitcher with me. That's flat. Mr. Fishwick in a great rage was for insisting; but Sir George stopped him. 'On what terms? he asked the other. 'If the girl be unharmed, we go unharmed. One and all! Mr. Dunborough answered. 'Damme! he continued with a great show of bravado, 'do you think I am going to peach on 'em? Not I. There's the offer, take it or leave it.
Damme, Oliver, this rappee gets unendurable." His coolness took Lochiel off the boil, and he and I passed out without another word into Sadler-gate and hurried after the Prince.
It was not of him that Margery got her firm round chin, or her steadfast eyes that knew not how to quail, nor aught of anything she owed a father save only her paternity, you'd say. And when he spoke the thin falsetto voice matched the weak chin to a hair. "I? Damme, Sir Francis, I know not why he came how should I know?" he quavered. "Appleby Hundred is mine mine, I tell you!
If I'm not at home, let any man ask for me at the stage-door. Damme, they know me at the stage-door I suppose. Most men have seen my portrait at the cigar shop round the corner. I've been mentioned in the newspapers before now, haven't I? Talk! I'll tell you what; if I found out that any man had been tampering with the affections of my daughter, I wouldn't talk.
"Ay, there's one picture that's worth all the rest, 'pon honour!" repeated Rochfort; "and we'll leave it to your ladyship's and Miss Portman's taste and judgment to find it out, mayn't we, Sir Philip?" "Oh, damme! yes," said Sir Philip, "by all means." But he was so impatient to direct her eyes, that he could not keep himself still an instant. "Oh, curse it!
Lord! we all thought the millennium was come with the king, but damme! if it doesn't seem as far off as ever! Not that his Majesty is to blame," he added quickly, as though fearing that his words might be taken as an aspersion upon Charles's ability to conduct the millennium single-handed. "The naughty spirit of the age sets itself against the Lord's Anointed.
That same evening the Major was diffuse at his club, on the subject of his friend Dombey in the City. 'Damme, Sir, said the Major, 'he's a prince, is my friend Dombey in the City. I tell you what, Sir. If you had a few more men among you like old Joe Bagstock and my friend Dombey in the City, Sir, you'd do! Paul's Introduction to a New Scene
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