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Updated: June 7, 2025
Marks, "don't you be too fast. Mother, give us down that tin box on the shelf over against the chest of drawers, will you?" The old woman obeyed, and after fumbling among broken teacups and milk-jugs, lidless wooden cotton-boxes, and a miscellaneous litter of rags and crockery, produced a tin snuff-box with a sliding lid; a shabby, dirty-looking box enough.
"'Bout master's having failed, and a set o' wretches," here she glanced at the dirty-looking man "coming and robbing him of his business, and his house, and his furniture, and everything a'most he's got." "No, no, Sally, I have heard nothing. But are they well?"
Perhaps I had talked about single-handed cruising as though it were easier than it was, though I never meant it in a boasting way, for I hate that sort of thing, and besides there is no danger if you're careful 'Oh, go on, I said. 'Anyway, we went next morning at six. It was a dirty-looking day, wind W.N.W., but his sails were going up and mine followed.
"Glorious! and are there portages?" "Lots of them." "And at each of these do I carry two hundred pounds of stuff up a hill on my back?" "Yes." "And will there be a guide, a genuine, dirty-looking Indian guide?" "Yes." "And can I sleep next to him?" "Oh, yes, if you want to." "And when we get to the top, what is there?" "Well, we go over the height of land." "Oh, we do, do we?
To the un-scientific it is a rather dirty-looking bird, with some bright red feathers under its wings. It is very tame, sits still to be petted, and screams like a real parrot. Two attended us on our ascent after leaving the bush. We threw many stones at them, and it was not their fault that they escaped unhurt. Immediately on emerging from the bush we found all vegetation at an end.
The houses became more frequent down the road, and he passed two other extremely wild and dirty-looking men without addressing them. One carried a gun and the other a hatchet, and they scrutinised him and his cudgel scornfully. Then he struck a cross-road with a mono-rail at its side, and there was a notice board at the corner with "Wait here for the cars." "That's all right, any'ow," said Bert.
We got coffee and kaimak a sort of cross between sour milk and cream cheese and as a great honour the lady of the house, a villainously dirty-looking woman, brought us two eggs. Jan's was bad, but he put it aside, saying nothing, for it is impossible to explain to these people what is a "bad" egg all are alike to them.
"Yasmini's!" said the general, at the end of a hundred yards; and the Sikh took a square, right-angle turn at full gallop with a neatness the Horse Artillery could not have bettered. There seemed to be no need of further instructions, for the Sikh pulled up unbidden at the private door that is to all appearance only a mark on the dirty-looking wall.
A short time after it became generally known that Johnson was to speak, a young lad might be seen hurrying home in his coal-pit-clothes to a low, dirty-looking cottage that stood on the outskirts of the village. "Mother," cried the boy, as soon as he reached the house and could recover his breath, "where's fayther?" "He's not come home yet," said the mother; "but what ails you, John?"
At length the tedium of this weary space was broken by the entrance of a dirty-looking serving-wench, who made some preparations for dinner by laying a half-dirty cloth upon a whole-dirty deal table.
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