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Updated: May 5, 2025
"Thank you, old chap," he whispered, "but I don't like to go." "Off with you," I said, and I hurried him forward. "Shall I give you a leg up?" I added, for he limped a good deal still. "No, no; I don't want to let them see I'm lame. But I say, Gnat, you go." "Be off," I whispered. "Quick!" and I helped him in.
She's just about as suitable as any other waterlogged cattle-steamer'd be, and no more first-rate for elephants and kangaroos, but no good for cruiser-work, and so slow she wouldn't make a ripple high enough to drown a gnat going at the top of her speed.
If God really hated any man, do you suppose that he would endure that man for a moment in his universe? Do you suppose that he would not sweep that man away, as easily and as quickly as we do a buzzing gnat when it torments us?
There was I all red-hot with what I thought was a good thing, and he was just like a cold codfish laughing at me." I could not help smiling at the absurdity of my idea, for I recalled that I had never seen a cold codfish laughing. I had no more time for musing then, for I received a sharp slap on the back from Barkins. "Never mind, Gnat; we all get it some time."
It was my good fortune to find a nest on a copsy hilltop, where the bird's madrigals and lullabies mingled with those of the yellow-breasted chats, the indigo buntings, the blue-gray gnat catchers, and the Kentucky warblers. To this day I feel a longing to visit the secluded spot where I held so many pleasant interviews with these birds.
No doubt there is some truth in it; but I have grown grey with my eyes open and I have often seen it happen, that how the marriage turned out depended on the husband. A man like you makes a bee out of a gnat a bee that brings honey to the hive. Of course a man must choose carefully." "How, pray?" "First see the parents and then the child.
"Some one might come in." "Don't send me away," Jim said in a smothered voice. "Every one in the house is asleep, and I love you, dear." Aunt Selina swallowed hard in the darkness. "You have no right to make love to me," Bella. "It's it's highly improper, under the circumstances." And then Jim: "You swallow a camel and stick at a gnat.
Their methods have a finesse, a suppleness, a universal adaptability, that does them infinite credit; and man, with all his strength, and all his majesty, and his commanding talent, is about as well off as a buffalo or a bison against a tiny, rainbow-winged gnat or mosquito, who bites, sings, and stings everywhere at once, with an infinite grace and facility.
It had "got it" and no mistake, for the blow from the keen sword had struck it at a sharp angle, and cut three parts of the way through the thick metal tube, which had been driven with tremendous force against my ribs. "Oh, Gnat!" cried Barkins, as he saw the mischief, "it's quite spoilt. What a jolly shame!" "But it saved his life," said Smith, giving him a meaning nod.
The shore on either side was so close that, had the enemy concealed themselves among the rocks and shrubs, they might greatly have annoyed the flotilla without the risk of much damage to themselves. When morning broke the Gnat was approaching a long, low, rocky point, over which the masts of a considerable fleet of junks could be perceived.
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