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Updated: May 8, 2025
"Not he," laughed Crispin. "Leastways, not yet awhile. Observe the wretch." With mouth wide agape, the minister lay gasping like a fish newly taken from the water. Even now that his throat was free he appeared to struggle for a moment before he could draw breath. Then he took it in panting gulps until it seemed that he must choke in his gluttony of air.
We shall soon get her out of the way can't last much longer." Mr. Glentworthy, drawing a small bottle from his pocket, places it to his lips, saying he stole it from old Saddlerock, and gulps down a portion of the contents. His breath is already redolent of whiskey. "Oh, yes, yes, yes! I can sing for them, I can smother them with kisses.
Here, of a bright morning when Down-at-Heels is generously warming himself on the park benches, and Old Defeat watches Young Hurry striding by, one has a royal choice of refreshment: a "red-hot" enfolded in a bun from the dingy sausage wagon at the curb, or a plum for a penny from the Italian with the trundle cart, or news of the world in lurid gulps from the noon edition of the paper or else a curious idea or so flung out stridently over the heads of the crowd by a man on a soap box.
John said 'how ripping, but decided to have tea first. He asked if there were many pirates on the island just now, and Peter said he had never known so many. 'Who is captain now? 'Hook, answered Peter; and his face became very stern as he said that hated word. 'Jas. Hook? 'Ay. Then indeed Michael began to cry, and even John could speak in gulps only, for they knew Hook's reputation.
Policemen pushed their way in and began roughly to question and to question in real audible words. But for the space of a full minute these people stood there staring upward, drinking in the blessed sound that poured in on them lavishly from the life of the street; drinking deep gulps of air, as though air had lacked. Darrow, and with him Jack Warford, had descended more leisurely.
Thus they come by their false opinion; for, in truth, the Age of Superstition lives as lustily to-day, as when, in past years, witches blazed at Smithfield, or died with rending gulps and bursting lungs, lashed fast to an English ducking stool. In the remote portions of the Malay Peninsula we live in the Middle Ages, with all the appropriate accessories of the dark centuries.
There the men threw themselves flat and drank in great gulps until they could drink no more. We built a fire, but the Nigger refused to cook. "Someone else turn," he growled, "I cook aboard ship." Perdosa, who had hewed the fuel, at once became angry. "I cut heem de wood!" he said, "I do my share; eef I cut heem de wood you mus' cook heem de grub!"
"The gods were always behind time with me," came the husky whisper. "I used to think I'd scale Olympus, but they kicked me down. If if there's any water to spare, when it's gone round, I I " He broke off with a rending cough. Some one put a tin cup into the doctor's hand, and he held it to the parched lips. Ford drank in great gulps, and, as he drank, the worst agony passed.
He gulps hastily at his booty, trying to get it down before the others catch him. But it is too big for his gullet, and he drops it in the very act and article of happy deglutition. The largest and whitest of his pursuers scoops up the morsel almost before it touches the waves, and flaps away to enjoy his piratical success in some quiet retreat.
He that accepts it in its entirety gulps it down like an anaconda absorbing an unwashed goat; who makes no attempt to separate the essential from the accidental the utterance of inspiration from the garrulity of hopeless nescience; who forgets that it is half an epic poem filled with the gorgeous imagery of the Orient, may, like the ass which Balaam rode, open its mouth and speak; but he never saw the Angel of the Lord; he utters the words of emptiness and ignorance.
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