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Updated: May 17, 2025
She closed her eyes and the thought which at first she saw dimly in the dark recesses of her mind advanced to the open, took form and shape and presently boldly showed itself as a full-grown plan. Billie, sitting abstractedly on the ground, piling and re-piling the sandwiches, was startled by Ben's rather impatient voice. "I'll have to fall-to unless you give the word, Billie; I'm famished."
Then she told us to fall-to, and there would be no more to pay; for the inn was her own, or at least her father's, and he was gone for the day to Pittencrieff.
At noon on Christmas day we awaited on the quarter deck the arrival of our guests, who, as soon as they came inboard were ushered below and placed in the posts of honor at the tables. After the admiral, captain, and officers had made the round of the decks, preceded by the band playing the immortal strains of "The roast beef of Old England," the shrill whistles piped "fall-to."
It was with high good-humour that the pair sat down to the deal table, and proceeded to fall-to on the pork pie. Morris retailed the discovery of the lid, and the Great Vance was pleased to applaud by beating on the table with his fork in true music-hall style. 'That's the dodge, he cried. 'I always said a water-butt was what you wanted for this business.
When they came home from the fields at first it was principally by field-work that they earned wages it was not to be at leisure, but to fall-to again on these domestic doings, just as if there had been no change, just as if they were peasant women still. And yet, though this work had not changed, there was henceforth a vast difference in its meaning to the women.
Fall-to, dogs, and devour! peck up the crumbs, scarecrows, as the Creole calls you, and be filled. But, pause and be just, even to your own appetites. Notwithstanding our lunch, let us dine. Let us divide the four loaves into eight equal portions. There are six of us here, and Bill must have his share. We will have more for our dinner, when the legs of mutton make their appearance."
Therefore pray don't think your time lost; for, willing, nilling, you'll be forced to stay, unless you are resolved to encounter Juno, Neptune, Doris, Aeolus, and his fluster-busters, and, in short, all the pack of ill-natured left-handed godlings and vejoves. Do but resolve to be cheery, and fall-to briskly.
Veni qui, ajo!" and, gazing after him, I saw her at the entrance of a cave some fifty feet above us, erect, with either hand parting and holding back the creepers that curtained her bower. She let the curtains fall-to behind her, and, stepping down the hillside, welcomed my father with the gravest of curtsies. "Salutation, O stranger!"
German faith, French knavery. The world is to find healing in the German soul. We are the heroes the others are hucksters. To be German means to do a thing for its own sake. We are a "race of thinkers and poets." We have Culture, the others merely Civilization. Clearly therefore we are destined for world-dominion; we have only to fall-to.
"Well, then, holdin' these views," continued the mate, "I have put aside Will Ward's share every time the rations were served, so here's what belongs to him in this keg for the meat, and this bag for the biscuit ready for him to fall-to whenever his twist is strong enough."
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