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Updated: June 8, 2025
Rogers that the men were almost dead-beat, to which, indeed, the faces of all bore witness in the broadening daylight. "We must not exhaust ourselves utterly," suggested Mr. Pope. "It is already day, and the Council of Twelve ought to meet before noon." "Indeed? Why?" asked the Commandant, absently. "Why, to advertise the Lord Proprietor's disappearance, with a printed description of him!"
My friend supported me, but even he was faint from lack of food and exposure. We decided to roll our soddened bodies in our saturated blankets, to lie down on the ground and to strive to woo sleep. We stretched ourselves on the flat, but the wind and rain beat unmercifully upon us. Although we were dead-beat the angel of sleep refused to come to us.
You meanwhile borrow my roan filly your own mare is dead-beat clap her in the tilbury, and off you go to St. Mawes, and find out how this man Glass got hold of a change of clothes. Take Mr. Goodfellow with you, and while you are playing detective at St. Mawes, he can cross over to Falmouth and fetch along the corner cupboard.
In his encounters with the sun he is like a prize-fighter coming up to time. Every round finds him weaker and weaker, still his pluck is first-rate, and he goes at it again. It is not until three, P.M., that he wrings out his dripping pocket-handkerchief, slouches his hat over his brows, and gives in as dead-beat.
We have wished for you very hard. Now you have come, we will treat you well." "Are your huts far off?" asked the seaman anxiously. "Not far. They are close to the ice-mountain on the land." "Take me to them, then, like a good fellow, for I'm dead-beat, and stand much in need of rest." The poor man was so helpless that he could not walk to the sledge when they unrolled him.
The sun seems to dart into us as if its rays were needles' points." "Don't drink, Chanito! don't drink!" cried l'Encuerado to Lucien. The poor little fellow replaced the gourd at his side, and bent on me such a heart-rending look that I caught him up in my arms. "Let us make a halt," said my friend, who was sheltering himself under a gigantic rock; "I confess that I am dead-beat."
If Aunt Lizzie had been alive he never would have lent that dead-beat Richards that money. He ought to get married." Miss Brown did not feel called on to say anything.
In the evening a few scraps of meat were thrown amongst them as they dropped down dead-beat upon the stony ground of the halting-place. As he stood in the courtyard of the castle in the early morning, after having been driven hard all night, Gaspar Ruiz's throat was parched, and his tongue felt very large and dry in his mouth.
Day after day, Tom and I returned home dead-beat, with hardly a tired word to exchange with each other. We had now been at it for about a fortnight, and I loved the old chap more every day for the grit and courage with which he supported our terrible labours and kept up his spirits.
She nodded and gave him an impatient, scrutinising glance. His face had a fatuous kind of smile. "Been celebrating the pigeons?" she asked drily, jerking her head towards the two birds, which she had seen drop from her Eden skies a short time before. "I only had one swig of whiskey, honest Injun!" he answered. "I s'pose I might have waited till to-morrow, but I was dead-beat.
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