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Hicks's gayety, however, was not to be quelled in that way. "Gibraltar wouldn't be a bad place to put up at for a while," he said. "Lots of good fellows among the officers, they say, and fun going all the while. First-class gunning in the Cork Woods at St. Roque.
During these vicissitudes, Rupert Gunning, arrayed in a green swallow-tailed calico coat, short white cotton trousers, and a skimpy nigger wig, presented a pitiful example of the humiliations which the allied forces of love and jealousy can bring upon the just. Fanny Fitz has since admitted that, in spite of the wrath that burned within her, the sight of Mr.
The whole captures since the army started out gunning will amount to not less than twelve thousand men, and probably fifty pieces of artillery. I do not know the number of men and guns accurately however. * I think the President might come out and pay us a visit tomorrow. U. S. GRANT, Lieutenant-General. During the night of April 2d our line was intrenched from the river above to the river below.
He had married for his second wife the Duchess of Hamilton, nee Gunning, the famous beauty. Ogilvy. The correspondence of 1775 begins with the frequent story of Charles Fox's debts.
"Oh, no; there are my brother and sister, the twins. Morton is the one I spoke of; he has gone gunning with Uncle Adam Standish, and the young man who must be your nephew, I'm sure; and Molly has gone on an errand." "That Morton it ees one fine boy! His air do say, 'Behold the American citizen in me! is it not?" Sara smiled and sighed.
And Maria would not spare a word to Elizabeth, for not a woman but must walk after the heels of a duchess, and she was all for leading. "The Golden Vanity!" says Elizabeth. "Mama, what should that be? When I'm a duchess " "I don't know, and most likely 'tis not worth knowing." Mrs. Gunning was angry. Her fine brows were drawn together.
She thrust some cream-cakes upon them, and they did so, looking doubtfully at her cloudy eyes; and when the door shut, she turned to Mrs Gunning. "Madam, you know well't is my wish to serve you and yours. But seeing this invitation, there's thoughts comes into my head that I must needs speak out. 'T would scarce become me to tell a lady like yourself what must be faced there, but but 't is much!
And the most perfect canoe for fishing and gunning around shallow, marshy waters, would be a very imperfect canoe for a rough and ready cruise of one hundred miles through a strange wilderness, where a day's cruise will sometimes include a dozen miles of carrying.
Gunning, the scene painter, had prided himself that the transformation scene that he had fixed up for the play was about as nice as could be, and as we confessed that we had only got an imperfect view of it, the night before, from one side of the house, he insisted that we take a seat right in front of the stage, in the parquette, and get a good view of it.
He may come aboard agin in a little while an' want to know why we didn't wait dinner for him." "He sho' would take his trunk," said Gunning, "an' dat's a fact." "Why would he?" asked Mrs. Sackett. "'Cause he take good care o' dat trunk, ma'm. He sleep wid one eye on it an' his gun handy.
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