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Updated: June 4, 2025
But when the Baltic norther snorts without, and mine ancient thigh-wound twinges down where my hand rests, naturally I have no better resource than to fall to the goose-quill. And lo! long ere I am done with the first page, and have the ink no more than half-way to the roots of my hair, I am again in the midst of the ringing hoofs of the foray.
From his desk across the room the secretary, idly chewing the feathered end of his goose-quill, took silent stock of the man from Paris, and wondered. Tressan folded the paper carefully, and returned it to its owner.
"Fifteen hundred guineas at a stroke of a goose-quill! That was a neat hit, narrowly missed, of honest Nick's!" said Lord Clonbrony. "Too bad! too bad, faith! I am much, very much obliged to you, Colambre, for that hint: by to-morrow morning we shall have him in another tune." "And he must double the bag, or quit," said Sir Terence. "Treble it, if you please, Terry.
To-day she had been listening again, and as her master was preparing to take his seat at the table and sharpen his goose-quill, she glanced around to see that they were entirely alone; then approached, saying in Portuguese: "Don't begin that, Lopez. You must listen to me first." "Must I?" he asked, kindly. "If you don't choose to do it, I can go!" she answered, angrily.
"Be aisy, Mister Mordicai! you sha'n't make me break your bones, nor make me drop one actionable word against your high character; for I know your clerk there, with that long goose-quill behind his ear, would be ready evidence again' me. But I beg to know, in one word, whether you will take five thousand down, and GIVE Lord Clonbrony a discharge?" "No, Mr.
He is not by any means a fast runner, and his safety does not lie in his swiftness of foot. His defensive armour is found in the fetid effluvium which, by a muscular exertion, he is capable of ejecting upon his pursuer. This he carries in two small sacs that lie under his tail, with ducts leading outward about as large as the tube of a goose-quill.
These envelopes contained no word of writing, but held, on one day, only a bit of down from a hen's breast, on another, a goose-quill, on another, a glossy tail-feather, on another, a grain of corn, and so on. These trifles were regarded by me not as degrading or unmaidenly hints and suggestions, but simply as tests of intelligence.
'It was an unlucky goose-quill that lay so handy, exclaimed Ulick; 'but you may credit me, no eye but my own ever saw the scrawl, nor would have seen it. 'Then, Ulick, if we all own that something is to be regretted, why do we stand aloof, and persist in quarrelling? 'I want no quarrel, said Ulick, stiffly. 'Mr.
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