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They danced about and fiddled for an opening, sparred for wind, and did all the fancy footwork of the fifth-class fighter, but they seldom came together except in clinches. The referee, the Christchurch Kid, was the martyr, for he had to pull them apart every minute. The rounds were of two minutes' duration, and the rests one minute.
"I should have thought that treating men like criminals was not the best way to make brave soldiers of them!" "Tell us your father's name," broke in Lieutenant Everard, a small dark man, very nervous and restless, with eyes that winked continually and impatient fingers that fiddled endlessly with the tassel of his sword-hilt. "We will not be put off longer.
It was the first time he had ever been ragged in such a way, and his composure had suffered; he spoke now with more than his usual pomposity. "I will," Wade answered curtly, as he turned on his heel and departed. The Senator, puffing slightly, fiddled with his glasses.
But there was nobody to hear this little neglected urchin of all work, and he fiddled away happily, the music floating out of the garret window, over the treetops and the dew-wet clover fields, until it mingled with the winds and was lost in the silver skies of the morning. Ted worked doubly hard all that forenoon, since there was a double share of work to do if, as Mrs.
She knows a great many languages, but she can't speak English since Henry the Eighth's time, when she said to him, 'You be fiddled, which meant, the Scotch should come with their fiddles and rule England. I never pity myself for not being able to jabber French, but I blush for their ignorance. However, all this is neither here nor there.
"Say you so?" said St. George. "Well, let us have it. But stay, friend, thou hast no ale in thy pot. Wilt thou not let me pay for having it filled?" "That," said the Lad who fiddled when the Jew was in the bramble-bush, "may be as you please, Sir Knight; and, to tell the truth, I will be mightily glad for a drop to moisten my throat withal."
Negro wenches in yellow calico dancing to fiddled tunes older than voodoo; Indian planters coming sullenly in with pale-green bananas; memories of the Spanish Main and Morgan's raid, of pieces of eight and cutlasses ho!
But when her had been fiddled at for three or four 'ear, her begun to see as her was under no sort o' peril o' losin' her maiden name with Ezra. So her walked theer an' then made up her mind an' walked at once went into some foreign part of the country to see if her couldn't find somebody theer as'd fancy a nice-lookin' wench, and tek less time to find out what he'd took a likin' for."
If you do, let us have it, for it is your turn now." "Very well," said Fortunatus, "I will tell you a story that turns out as it should, where the lad marries a beautiful princess and becomes a king into the bargain." "And what is your story about?" said the Lad who fiddled for Jew in the bramble-bush. "It is," said Fortunatus, "about " The Good of a Few Words
'Please sit down, said Alice quite calmly, though she told me afterwards I had no idea how silly she felt. And the butcher sat down. Then Alice stood quite still and said nothing, but she fiddled with the medicine glass and put the screw of brown paper straight in the Castilian bottle. 'Will you tell your Pa I'd like a word with him? the butcher said, when he got tired of saying nothing.
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