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He seized Gunter's fist as he spoke, and gave it a shake so hearty and powerful, that he almost hurled that lover of cheap grog and baccy overboard. "Hold on, skipper!" growled the fisherman, who was for a moment uncertain whether to return the friendly grasp or fight; but the fierce, wild, contemptuous laugh with which David Bright concluded the speech decided him.
When we get to the crest of Gunter's Hill perhaps we shall know. I left home two hours ago, and then Barbara lay almost at the point of death; insensible." "Insensible," muttered Anthony. "Oh! my God, insensible." "Yes," went on the clergyman in a voice of patient resignation. "I don't understand much about such things, but the inflammation appears to have culminated that way.
Billy was interrupted by Gunter making a rush at him, but the boy was too nimble for the man, besides which, Gunter's bruises, to which we have before referred, were too painful to be trifled with. Soon afterwards the boat returned for another cargo of trunks, and the crew of the Evening Star went to work again. Meanwhile the "power of littles" began to tell on the capacious hold of the steamer.
From his "Young Man's Companion" Washington had already learned the use of Gunter's rule and how it should be used in surveying, and to complete his knowledge he seems to have taken lessons of the licensed surveyor of Westmoreland County, James Genn, for transcripts of some of the surveys drawn by Genn still exist in the handwriting of his pupil.
At school he was equally remarkable, and at a tender age he received a paper adorned with a cut, inscribed REWARD OF MERIT." I don't doubt the nurse said that, there were several promising children born about that time. As for cuts, I got more from the schoolmaster's rattan than in any other shape. Didn't one of my teachers split a Gunter's scale into three pieces over the palm of my hand?
I suppose that I walk too slowly for him. I cannot walk so fast as I used to do, and he felt the wind cold." Then he dismissed the matter from his half-dazed mind and stumbled on wearily, muttering his disjointed prayers. Thus in due course he began to climb the little slope of Gunter's Hill.
"I take my John Norie and my Gunter's Scale, and I work out my day's work as well as any man; and what more should I want to know, tell me? Your mathematicians are all humbugs in my opinion, and that's a fact." I mention these little traits in Hanks' character, because I shall now have to bid him farewell for a season.
The clerical bachelor was not to be outdone by the gentlemen of the bar; and the entertainment at the Temple was followed by one at Honeyman's lodgings, which, I must own, greatly exceeded ours in splendour, for Honeyman had his luncheon from Gunter's; and if he had been Miss Rosey's mother, giving a breakfast to the dear girl on her marriage, the affair could not have been more elegant and handsome.
Whether it was accident or design we know not, but Gunter's hand knocked the pipe out of Brook's mouth. To Billy's ear the well-known sound of a blow followed, and he ran to look down into the cabin, where all was instantly in an uproar. "Choke him off," cried David Bright. "Knock his brains out," suggested Herring.
After a very recherche breakfast, served in Gunter's best style, in the handsome drawing room of the Cotterells', in Harley Street, Tom and his fair bride took their departure en route for the Continent. They were to make a tour of several months through France, Germany and Switzerland, likewise enjoy several weeks on the banks of the beautiful Rhine. Mr.
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