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Updated: July 23, 2025
Gregory was dead as the proverbial door-nail, but Bevans, on investigation, proved to be very much alive so much so that if he had not been partly stunned by the fall, and thereafter pinned to the ground by a thousand-pound horse, he would have potted one or two of us with a good heart.
"A regular traveller, that; and one who knew him well, swore to me that he hadn't related one half of what befel him." "How very delightful to learn this from the highest quarter!" exclaimed Miss Monthly. "Dead, marm stone dead dead as a door-nail," returned the captain, who saw a relief in killing as many as possible. "You have been in France, Mr.
A few minutes after, I heard the report of the gun, but never expected to see anything of the game; when Jacob suddenly bounced into the room, half-wild with delight. "Thae beast iz dead az a door-nail. Zure, how the measter will laugh when he zees the fine buck that oie a'zhot." "And have you really shot him?" "Come and zee! 'Tis worth your while to walk down to the landing to look at 'un."
Then he sings out, 'My G , it's too horrible! an' I 'ear 'er a larfin' like to bust, an' then 'e comes to me, and ses, quite wild like, 'Take me out of this 'ell! an' I tooked 'im." "And when you came back?" "She was dead." "Dead?" "As a blessed door-nail," said Sal, cheerfully. "An' I never knowd I was in the room with a corpse," wailed Mother Guttersnipe, waking up.
For two men who ran up with a carriage lamp declared that the gentleman was as dead as a door-nail, and hastened to make good their words by swinging him up heels over head.
He would have had me in another minute, for I was letting go when you came;" and the boy shuddered at the remembrance. "Well," said Mark, a little boastfully, "he won't catch anybody else. He's as dead as a door-nail now. Here we are." Jan and Captain Johnson were at the landing, and they listened with astonishment to Mark's hurried explanation of what had happened.
Rushing to the spot whence the shout proceeded, we were astonished to find the thirteen-year-old son of Orson Clark standing, with an old blunderbuss in his hands, in a triumphant attitude by the panther, which lay as dead as a door-nail on the ground before him! "What on earth does this mean?" exclaimed his father, as he took in the scene.
"We've got him' We've got him!" declared Harry, while Bert lighted the lamp. "Is he dead?" screamed Aunt Sarah from the stairs. "As a door-nail!" answered Harry. "What is it?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey, hardly able to speak. "A big gray rat," replied Uncle Daniel, and everybody had a good laugh. "I thought it might be that," said Mrs. Bobbsey. "So did I," declared Nan. "But I wasn't sure."
But Darley's dead as a door-nail; and there's to be such a burying of him as niver was seen afore i' Monkshaven, come Sunday. And now gi' us t' iron, wench, and let's lose no more time a-talking. 'It's noane loss o' time, said Daniel, moving himself heavily in his chair, to feel how helpless he was once more.
Did you think I'd cut up nasty about it? Surely you knew I'd wish you well even if you were not for me; but won't you tell me who it is that has put my light out?" "Can't you guess?" "Well, I suppose it's " "The red-headed mug," put in Dawn. "Yes, I saw it all along, but that night in the street finished matters. I knew my chances were as dead as a door-nail after that.
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