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Updated: May 19, 2025
The child is swaddled and crammed on, till, after gripes, purging, &c., it sinks under both burdens into a convulsion fit, and escapes farther torture. This would be the case with the lamb, were it not killed, when full fat.
"Man overboard! man overboard!" echoed round the decks; while some of the officers and men jumped into the quarter boats, and off the gripes and lashings.
The long-boat changed, as if by magic, into matchwood where she stood in her gripes. I had lashed her myself, and was rather proud of my handiwork, which had withstood so long the malice of the sea. And we pumped. And there was no break in the weather.
Suppose she lost her new job after a week or two? Oh, rubbish.... Rot! Time enough for the gripes when she got the sack! She could hear no sound at all from the room above. Was Toby not home yet? He used to get home about ten minutes past six, as a rule. It was now a quarter-past. If she did not hear him she would go and meet May, and then call in to tell Mrs.
"No, just an asteroid," Tom grumbled. "He'll never know how close he came to getting a space boot in the face when he woke us up this morning. Oh, man! Was I tired!" "Stop complaining, will you?" snarled Roger. "All I've heard from you two space crawlers is gripes and complaints." "If I wasn't so tired, Roger," said Astro, "I'd give you something to gripe about. A flat lip!"
Joey wiped the perspiration from his forehead. "Right-o! Not a blooming word. I see your meaning. By Gripes, he's sinking pretty low. But," hopefully," mebby he didn't do it." "I hope he didn't, but " The boy shuddered. "Joey, I passed him as I came from the ring awhile ago. He was leaning against a quarter pole.
Let the carpenter look to the hatches and see that they are securely battened down, and he had better examine the pumps also; our lives may depend upon them before all is over. Where is the boatswain? Oh, is that you, Bartlett? Give an eye to the boats' gripes, will you, and see that they are all right. I have known a boat to be blown clean from the davits before now.
SMALL SPEARWORT. It has been lately discovered that this plant possesses very active powers as an emetic, and it is supposed to be useful in some cases of vegetable poisons. RHAMNUS Frangula. THE BLACK OR BERRY-BEARING ALDER. Its Bark. The internal bark of the trunk or root of the tree, given to the quantity of a dram, purges violently, occasioning gripes, nausea, and vomiting.
You know why I came here, don't you?" "Aunt Meg told me what she wrote to you." "I knew she would. She had compunctions of conscience letting him hang round you, until she told me; and then she had awful gripes because she had told, and had to confess to YOU!"
Nothing disturbs him, until some weak, innocent animalcule ventures unsuspiciously within his reach, and then with one muscular exertion, the monster darts, gripes, gulps him down goes to his sleep or prayers again, and waits a fresh arrival. The creature has no joy but in the pangs of others no life but in their sufferings and death.
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