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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I mean to do my duty as a subject of his Majesty the King," said Uncle Paul gravely. "Very well, sir. I am captain of this schooner, but I am your servant, and it is my duty to obey your orders," said the captain, in his gruffest tones; and he walked heavily to the man at the wheel.
"Ned," said the Doctor to him one day, in his gruffest tone, "you are not turning out to be the boy I looked for and meant to make.
She never speaks in a voice lower than what is usually required for commanding a regiment; while her gruffest voice is sufficient to utterly embarrass a nervous man, especially as she has a trick of perpetually interrupting the person talking to her with her 'How why wherefore's? and, when she begins to laugh, the whole room trembles.
Away they all hurried to the Smiling Pool. The Merry Little Breezes raced so hard that they were quite out of breath when they burst through the bulrushes and surrounded Grandfather Frog, as he sat on his big green lily-pad. "Oh, Grandfather Frog, why is it that Jimmy Skunk never hurries?" they panted. "Chug-a-rum!" replied Grandfather Frog in his deepest, gruffest voice. "Chug-a-rum!
The men, as we said before, having been sailors, seemed to shout with the memory of the boatswain strong upon them, for their tones were pitched in the deepest and gruffest bass-key.
The sick chaps first. By Jove, here's the sergeant major himself." "What's all this?" inquired the sergeant major in his gruffest voice. "Who's responsible for this fire?" "Coffee, sergeant major?" answered Barry, handing him a tin full. "But what ?" "Drink it first, sergeant major." The sergeant major took the mess tin and tasted the coffee.
"If I had time I should show you, sir. But my boat is waiting. I go down to the pier place and hold up my hand. My men see me, and come and take me off." "And all in the dark, mister," said the sentry in his gruffest tones. "But you are not going down to the pier place to hold up your hand, and your boatmen are not coming to take you off." "I do not see what you mean, sir.
"It is of no use, Master Réné," the armorer said, in his gruffest tones, but not unkindly, for he felt a strong affection for the lad, as all did who knew him "it is of no use arguing at this late day. We have fully determined to leave this country of starvation and misery, and at least to make an effort to lay our bones in fair France.
He suited the action to the word, and none too soon. Again we heard the curious drone of the strange car as it swooped down upon us, coming to a sudden halt a yard distant, with really beautiful precision. "What do you want?" shouted Winter, in his gruffest tones.
It was at least a week before Abe could bring himself to address his partner, save in the gruffest monosyllables; but an unusual rush of spring customers brought about a reconciliation, and Abe and Morris forgot their real-estate venture in the reception of out-of-town trade.
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