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At the sound of the boatswain's pipe, too, the cutter's crew had begun to muster on the poop, the leading hands unloosing the gripes with which the boat was secured and the coxswain attending to the tiller; while two or three of the men had already put on their cork jackets and taken their seats on the thwarts, ready for lowering away, the little craft being swung out from the davits to leeward.
In speaking of the oil of anise-seed, Hahnemann says that Forestus observed violent colic caused by its administration. But, as the author tells the story, a young man took, by the counsel of a surgeon, an acrid and virulent medicine, the name of which is not given, which brought on a most cruel fit of the gripes and colic. Med. lib. XXI obs. xiii.
The launch, the largest boat of the two, was cut loose from the "gripes," and the bustle and exertion of the moment rendered the crew insensible to the horror of the scene that surrounded them. But the loud hoarse call of the cockswain, to "look out secure yourselves!" suspended even their efforts, and at that instant the Ariel settled on a wave that melted from under her, heavily on the rocks.
The tree is full of good ideas, I'll admit. But we've got to let 'em ripen. Eat 'em now and it's a case of the gripes for business and politics, both. Therefore" the Senator paused and squinted at the end of his cigar. "Well, Daunt, we'll have to apply a little common sense to conditions, even though the opposition may squeal. That ownership of the water-power by the people isn't ripe.
Next to those come the terrors of men, the gripes of the laws, the shadow of death, and no man can tell what. All which are sufficient to pull a man from the gates of life, were he there, if the faithful Creator stands not to him. "But God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it."
The officer of the watch, however, had already made preparations to this end, the first cutter's crew having been piped and the men standing ready by the davits to lower her into the water, with the gripes cast off and the falls cleared. "All ready there, coxsun, eh?" he cried; and then, without waiting for any answer, he sang out, "Lower away!"
Pratt, stand up here, and help me." "We'll never get in at this rate, Charley." "I'll give you a lodging, if that's what you're after," said a voice near them, and a hand fell heavily on a shoulder of each. "Nabbed, by gripes!" cried Quirk, suddenly turning round. "Breaking into a store is a new way of going to bed. You're my prisoners; so march along with you."
Of hunger I did not feel much, save for gripes in my inside now and then; but I was weak because of my emptiness as I discovered when I got on my legs, and found myself staggering a little and the things around me swimming before my eyes.
What's the good of curfew, and poor devils of bell-ringers jumping at a rope's-end in bell-towers? What's the use of day, if people sit up all night? The gripes to them!" He grinned as he saw where his logic was leading him. "Every man to his business, after all," added he, "and if they're awake, by the Lord, I may come by a supper honestly for this once, and cheat the devil."
"Perhaps a shade precocious," wrote the lady principal in one of the laconic, penetrating sentences with which, above her signature, each girl's report was terminated: and, in a later term, "Has 'Forward! for her banner, but should remember 'not too fast'." "Gripes! I know what she's referring to," said Doda, seeing it, and laughed, obviously flattered. "Your expressions, Doda!" "Huggo uses it."
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