United States or Anguilla ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
'Fasting, from all but sin, answered the Dominie, who, recovering his voice, and finding his exorcisms only served to exasperate the intractable sorceress, thought it best to affect complaisance and submission, inwardly conning over, however, the wholesome conjurations which he durst no longer utter aloud.
At one of their meetings, held at the sign of the Tappet Hen and the Tankard, there was a prime fight of five rounds between Tammy Bowsie, the snab, and auld Thrashem, the dominie, about their drawing cuts which was to get Dalkeith Palace, and which Newbottle Abbey! Oh, sic riff-raff!
Tom, amused by this naivete on the part of the Dominie, touched him by the sleeve, on the other side, and commenced with his treble "Did you ne'er hear a tale Of a maid in the vale?" "Not that I can recollect, my child," replied the Dominie. "Then, where have you been all your life?" "My life has been employed, my lad, in teaching the young idea how to shoot."
Craig brought within her reach; and long after she left school, the Saturday on which she did not go to see him was a day of disappointment both to the dominie and to his little Phemie. When she had once begun to follow a thing, Kirsty would never leave the trail of it.
Conjuro te, scelestissima, nequissima, spurcissima, iniquissima atque miserrima, conjuro te!!! Meg stood her ground against this tremendous volley of superlatives, which Sampson hawked up from the pit of his stomach and hurled at her in thunder. 'Is the carl daft, she said, 'wi' his glamour? 'Conjuro, continued the Dominie, 'abjuro, contestor atque viriliter impero tibi!
As for the Dominie meeting old Beazeley and his son, I don't exactly know how that will suit, for I doubt if he will like to see them." "Why not?" inquired Mary. Upon a promise never to hint at them, I briefly stated the circumstances attending the worthy man's voyage on board of the lighter.
Ask anything of me but this," replied the Dominie. "Ask anything but this that's just the way people have of refusing," replied Mary; "were I to ask anything else, it would be the same answer `ask anything but this. Now, if you will not drink to please me, I shall quarrel with you. You shall drink a glass, and I'll mix it for you." The Dominie shook his head.
"She's doing that just to get into our atmosphere. She told me so herself. A millionaire's daughter " "Do millionaires' daughters wash their own handkerchiefs and paste them on windows to dry? Does any woman in or out of Our Square ever soak her own handkerchiefs in her own washbowl except when she's desperately saving pennies? Did you ever wash one single handkerchief in your rooms, Dominie?"
Sometimes I feel I have in him fine stuff and pliable, and I'll be trying to fathom how best to work it, but my experience has always been with more common metal, and I am feared, I'm feared, we may be botching him." "That was done for us in the making of him," said the Cornal. "I would not say that either, Cornal," said the dominie firmly. "But I'm wae to see him brought up on no special plan.
The dominie was the master of the sports, assisted by the neighbouring farmers, some of whom might be elders of the church. Three rounds were fought. By the end of the first round all the cocks had fought, and the victors were then pitted against each other. The cocks that survived the second round were eligible for the third, and the dominie, besides his shilling, got every cock killed.
Word Of The Day