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Updated: June 26, 2025
Now, in the dog-hole called St Maloes there is some pretty land, although a great deficiency of marine scenery.
And there's a dog-hole down on the Gold Coast where I intended to land this cargo, but now that Scab Johnny's gone to work and sent me a bay scow instead of a sea-goin' steamer, I'm in the nine-hole instead o' dog-hole. I can never get as far as the Gold Coast with the Maggie. She can't carry coal enough to last her."
Besides, he looked desperately ill; I must go and see if they have made him comfortable in that dog-hole below. Percy shook himself as if he was out of humour; and, with his hands in his pockets, and a sauntering step, entered the cabin. He found Arthur there alone, his head resting on his arms, and his frame shaken by the suppressed cough. 'You seem to have a terrible cold.
'We know that, my friend, which is the reason why we patronise your dog-hole of an inn. See that the two Excellencies breakfast together at a table apart in the morning. 'You will have matters to speak about with the Senor Pleydell in the morning, said Concepcion, as he unpacked Conyngham's luggage a few minutes later. 'Yes, I should like to speak to Senor Pleydell.
Everybody knows, or ought to know, what a hoy is it is a large sailing-boat, sometimes with one deck, sometimes with none; and the Unity, trading in bulky goods, was of the latter description, though there was a sort of dog-hole at the stern, which the master dignified by the name of a "state cabin," into which he purposed putting Mr. Jorrocks, if the weather should turn cold before they arrived.
'What's happened now? asked our friend of the maid, putting his arm round her waist, and giving her a hearty squeeze. 'What's happened now, that you've put me into this dog-hole? asked he. 'Oh! I don't know, replied she, laughing; 'I s'pose they're afraid you'll bring the old rotten curtains down in the other room with smokin'. Master's a sad old wife, added she.
Come secretly with me to Bristol, marry me, and turn our backs upon this dog-hole of England for ever? Say Yes." "I want to get away from here at almost any cost," she said with weariness, "but I don't like to go with you. Give me more time to decide." "I have already," said Wildeve. "Well, I give you one more week." "A little longer, so that I may tell you decisively.
" a bit of decent comfort a bit of freedom freedom from tyrants who call themselves your betters! a bit of rest in your old age, a home that's something better than a dog-hole, a wage that's something better than starvation, an honest share in the wealth you are making every day and every hour for other people to gorge and plunder!" He stopped a moment to see how that took.
"You lie, you scoundrel. Here, come forward and move that sail and those nets. Now no nonsense; set your fellows to work." He clapped his hand sharply on the skipper's shoulder, and turned him round, following him forward. "Take a man, Mr Leigh, and search that dog-hole."
The building of this preliminary party-wall, with a narrow, round dog-hole, for a chamber to which the victuals will not be brought until later is not restricted to the Three-horned Osmia; it is also frequently found in the case of the Horned Osmia and of Latreille's Osmia.
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