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He wants always to be doing something that shall be really useful, and a man has to toil at that and really to know things. But a Prime Minister should never go beyond generalities about commerce, agriculture, peace, and general philanthropy. Of course he should have the gift of the gab, and that Plantagenet hasn't got. He never wants to say anything unless he has got something to say.
"Children of Satan!" he said at last, recovering his breath during their laughter "Imps of darkness!" he added, holding out both hands in front, as he would keep them from contaminating him by their touch "if that ye ever hope for pardon " "I told ye he was a Roundhead a negotiator," shouted one of the rudest; "stop his gab at once yard-arm him."
"What do you think of this town?" pursues the newspaper man. "Think of this town? Think? Say, I ain't thinking. I don't think anything of it. I'm just looking at it, see? A stranger don't ever think, now, does he? There, that's one for you." "When'd you come here?" "When'd I come here? When? Well, I come here this noon. On the noon train. Say, don't make me gabby. I never gab any."
"Oh, shut up your gab!" said Ranald, suddenly. "Give the man a chance, anyway." "Will YOU bring an excuse when you're absent, Ranald?" asked Hughie. "And where would I be getting it?" asked Ranald, grimly, and all the boys realized the absurdity of expecting a written excuse for Ranald's absence from his father. Macdonald Dubh was not a man to be bothered with such trifles.
Burns, in The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer, says: 'But could I like Montgomeries fight, Or gab like Boswell. Boswell and Burns were born within a few miles of each other, Boswell being the elder by eighteen years. 'For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose, The best good man, with the worst-natured muse. Rochester's Imitations of Horace, Sat. i. 10. Johnson's Works, ix. i. Taylor: 'Mr.
While we were standing ready, my uncle recollected that the port on the south side was left unguarded, and Gerald and Tim were sent round to watch it. Directly afterwards Gerald came running back, saying that just before they reached it they saw a couple of black legs going through, and on looking out they discovered Gab scampering down the hill.
"My man said they didn't know who 'twas out there, at first, for it ain't the kind o' vessel often seen, and it skimmed along on the edge o' the water, Sim said, like a bird, in and out amongst the rocks, so't anybody'd a thought, not knowin' who they was and them, maybe, not knowin' the shore that they was drunk or gone crazy; and Sim said they hollered to 'em to look out for the rocks, and they heered a kind of a laugh on the water, and somebody shouted back: "'Stow your gab, land lubbers! and they knew from the voice it was Dave Rollin.
And the others listened in astonishment to this inexhaustible prattle, this "gab," more filled with gold spangles than Dantzig cordial, with which the commercial travelers of the bourse catch their customers. Suddenly: "But you must excuse me," he said, rushing towards the other end of the parlor. Mme. Favoral had just left the room to order tea to be brought in; and, the seat by Mlle.
Ve are funk shin hairies as is not depreciated, mam, and the more genteel we takes 'em the rougher they cuts; and the very women no more like you nor dark to light; but flies at us like ryal Bengal tigers, through taking of us for the creditors." "Verehas we hare honly servants of the ke veen;" suggested No. 2, hashing his mistress's English. "Stow your gab, Bill, and mizzle.
It's war an' speakin', they are the two great talents of the Yankee. But his greatest talent is the gift o' gab. Give him a chance t' talk it over with his enemy an' he'll lick 'im without a fight. An' when his enemy is another Yankee why, they both git licked, jest as it was in the case of the man thet sold me lightnin' rods. He was sorry he done it before I got through with him.
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