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Updated: May 11, 2025
As the getters as the colliers working at bringing down the coal are called are paid by the ton, many of the men have a strong lad working with them as assistant. "Is t' dad like to be at home soon, Jack?" Mrs. Haden asked, as she followed him into the house. "Not he, mother.
These mounds of the Kasr have suffered by successive generations of brick getters. Half Hillah is said to be built out of bricks from the ruins of Babylon, and bricks are still taken for any building operations that occur within easy access of these well-nigh inexhaustible supplies.
I fancy that Duplessis is, like all those money- getters, a seeker after fashion, and De Finisterre has not returned his bow." "My dear Alain, I am to blame; nothing is so irritating as a dispute about the worth of the men we like. I began it, now let it be dropped; only make me one promise, that if you should be in arrear, or if need presses, you will come at once to me.
'Wal, I reckon most of the folks 'bout har' is Union; they're from the "old North," and gin'rally pore trash. 'I have heard that the majority of the turpentine getters are enterprising men and good citizens, more enterprising, even, than the cotton and rice planters. 'Wal, they is enterprisin', 'cause they don't keer for nuthin' 'cep' money.
They were drawing now at the rate of seventeen dollars per month, worth at that time about one dollar in gold or one dollar and seventy cents in greenbacks. The Jews in all countries and in all times seemed to fill a peculiar sphere of usefulness. They were not much of fighters, but they were great "getters."
He told the tale with the greatest gusto, and invariably began and ended in the same manner. "You sin it in th' paper, I make no doubt, but yer can 'aave it from me to its proper purpus. Mr. Dale he plunged without so much as tekking off of his getters and spurs." And then he described how, stupefied by his mortal danger, he treated Dale more like an enemy than a savior.
Arheetoo, the casuist alluded to, though a member of the church, and extremely conscientious about what Sabbath he kept, was more liberal in other matters. He wished to have manufactured a set of certificates, purporting to come from certain man-of-war and merchant captains, known to have visited the island; recommending him as one of the best getters up of fine linen in all Polynesia.
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