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Why, we all thought there was no more spirit in him than in the old wooden figurehead leastways, all but me. "'I may be wrong, says I to old Tinsley the bo'sun, 'I may be wrong, says I, 'but I be main sure that young sad down-in-the-mouth have got a blazin' fire somewhere in his innards. "Ay, and time showed it.
How could such an enemy, aroused new and inflexibly resolved, be combatted? especially when one had no money, no way of reaching the people, no chance to organize. "Dr. Charlton has told you?" said Selma. "Day before yesterday," replied Victor. "Why do you look so down-in-the-mouth, Selma?" "It isn't easy to be cheerful, with you ill and the paper destroyed," replied she.
Peggy called for a bridle, which Shelby himself brought, saying as he slipped the light snaffle into Shashai's sensitive mouth and the headstall over his ears: "So you've bruck trainin', Miss Peggy, an' are a-going for a real old-time warm-up? Well, I reckon it's about time, an' the best thing you can do, for you look sort o' pinin' an' down-in-the-mouth.
And yet there were times when "pressing from protections" had its plenary significance too. Lovers of prints who are familiar with Hogarth's "Stage Coach; or, a Country Inn Yard," date 1747, will readily recall the two "outsides" the one a down-in-the-mouth soldier, the other a jolly Jack-tar on whose bundle may be read the word "Centurion." The life-protection was an indulgence extended to few.
"Why do they look so down-in-the-mouth?" wondered the old woman. "They don't seem to believe the worst, and don't want to understand what Hellgum writes. I've tried to explain his words to them, but they won't even listen to me. Alas! those who live on the lowlands, under an open sky, can never understand what it is to be afraid.
"Y' wonder how a man, who was a whiskey smuggler an' a gambler an' a contractor, who could skin the Devil, comes to be a preacher, Wayland; a missionary t' th' Cree?" "Yes, I have wondered, sometimes," confessed Wayland. "I could not just reconcile you with the poverty-stricken, down-in-the-mouth " "Don't say 'poverty-stricken', Wayland! A'm . . . rich. A've never known want!
I don't forget a favour nobody can say that of me. I ain't forgot it in this case." "I don't say that you have forgotten it. I have always put the utmost confidence in you; but, my good fellow, you must not come to me in this down-in-the-mouth way. Have I ever failed you? We've been hard pressed enough at times, but something has always turned up.
But when I look back upon that trying twelvemonth one of the most vivid incidents that memory recalls is that associated with my visit to the City of Dust. A Dream of Red Hands The first opinion given to me regarding Jacob Settle was a simple descriptive statement, 'He's a down-in-the-mouth chap': but I found that it embodied the thoughts and ideas of all his fellow-workmen.
Her state of mind had formerly been the female complement of his, but the sense of possession swerved her more easily. "What on earth ails you, Henry Whitman?" she said. "You look awful down-in-the-mouth. Only to think of our having enough to be comfortable for life. I should think you'd be real thankful and pleased."
"He saw how down-in-the-mouth and moping I was here, among these strangers and I really was getting quite peaked and run-down and he said I stayed indoors too much and it would do me all sorts of good to work in the garden, and he would send me some plants. The next I knew, here they were, with a book about mixing soils and planting, and so on.
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