Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 11, 2025
"Really, señorita, you are very frank. I suppose you would have a man lie in a hammock all day and roll cigaritos." "Much better do that than take what no is yours." "Which no American ever did!" "Excep' when he pulled California out the pocket de Mexico." "And what did Mexico do first?
"Ther's nothin' more interestin' than marryin', excep' mebbee the courtin'," she replied softly, "an' a gift is, so ter speak, a message o' love an' tenderness from one human heart t' another. With poor folks, who ain't experts in the use o' words, a gift means more 'n tongue kin tell. I'm sot myself on makin' things.
"All that evenin' Eb an' Elspie an' I set by the cook stove, talkin', an' they seemed to be plenty to talk about, an' the air in the room was easy to get through with what you hed to say it was that kind of an evenin'. Eb was pretty quiet, though, excep' when he piped up to agree.
They talked enough first about her being love-cracked, but there wa'n't any signs of it I could hear, excep' her trailin' 'round the beach, 'n' looking wimbly, 'n' not doin' jus' like other folks. She never said a word to anybody. Might 'a' been it turned her some," said Mrs. Libby, thoughtfully, rolling the flour in white scales from her heavy wrists.
"I never kent him lift his han' afore," said the laird, as if he would fain mitigate judgment on youthful indiscretion, "excep' it was to the Kirkmalloch bull, when he ran at him an' me as gien he wad hae pitcht 's ower the wa' o' the warl'."
Nothing trarnspired excep' a statement to the effect that some Territorial battalions had played about with turnips at the conclusion of the manoeuvres The taxpayer don't know all he gets for his money. Farewell! We moved off just in time to be blocked by a regiment coming towards the station to entrain for London.
The Duchesse de Lan- geais is a somewhat transparent fiction; but the castle from which Balzac borrowed the title of his heroine is an extremely solid fact. My doubt just above as to whether I should pronounce it excep- tionally grey came from my having seen it under a sky which made most things look dark.
But what’s in it for you? Where do you get yours, Doc?" "There’s nothing in it for me except to give honest service to the people who trust me." "Listen," he persisted with a sort of ferocious patience; "you ain’t on no bar’l now; an’ you ain’t calling no Ginneys and no Kikes your friends. You’re just talkin’ to me like there wasn’t nobody else onto this damn planet excep’ us two guys. Get that?"
"There is one more thing to say, that is all. I have said I learn' a secret, and use it to make a man introduce me if I will not tell. He has absolve' me of that promise. My frien's, I had not the wish to ruin that man. I was not receive'; Meestaire Nash had reboff me; I had no other way excep' to use this fellow.
"We was all right int'rested in them Allies, o' course, an' watched 'em clost; but, 'Bill, says Buck ter me one night, 'its been woikin in me nut that these here fellers ain't so different from what we know a'ready. Excep' fer their uniform an' outfits, we've met 'em all before but the Japs.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking