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"What are you at?" cried the Major, with fury equalled by nothing except his fright. "Erema, untie my big rattan. Quick quick " "Captain," said the cabman, coolly, "I must have another shilling for this job. A hextra mile and a quarter, to your orders. You knows Lunnon so much better. Smiffle stopped new railway new meat market never heered of that now, did you?"
I calls it the `Banging-smash Polka. But I generally charge hextra for it, for it's dreadful hard on the lungs, and the trombone he gets cross when I mention it, for it nearly bu'sts the hinstrument; besides, it kicks up sich a row that it puts the French 'orn's nose out o' jint you can't 'ear a note of him.
As Madden walked from the awning through the stinging sun rays, crimping up his naked feet from the blistering deck, Galton called to him. "If we git a lot of grub, sir, couldn't it be hextra, and carn't we 'ave a spread to-night, sir?" "Something like that," agreed Madden, tossing his buoy into the water.
If they wos a pair o' patent double million magnifyin' gas microscopes of hextra power, p'raps I might be able to see through a flight o' stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision 's limited.
"The wind has shifted a point," said the captain, who had just risen and opened a chink of the rude door of the hut in order to look out. "I see that the keel of the boat is all fast and the planking beside it. The coral rock shelters it just now; but if the wind goes on shifting I fear it will stand a poor chance." "We'd better go out and give it a hextra fastening," suggested Mr Millons.
There you are, sir; might shave in 'em!" "How much to pay?" "Vell, gen'lemen usually gives me a penny, but that's in or'nary cases. Ven I has to shine boots like a pair o' ships' boats I looks for suthin' hextra though I don't always get it!" "There you are, my lad," said the captain, giving the boy something "hextra," which appeared to satisfy him.
"Well, and now you have found me, what d'ye want with me?" said Bax, finishing the bread and cheese, and applying to the gin and water. "Shipmet, I'm goin' home, and wants a berth a-board the `Nancy," said Bluenose. "Couldn't do it, Captain," said Bax, shaking his head, "'gainst rules." "I'll go as a hextra hand a suppernummerary," urged the Captain.
Carlyle possessed the eyes of Argus, backed by Sam Weller's patent magnifying microscopes of double hextra power, he could not have made anything of her features in the broad light of day. But she did not feel so sure of it. There was always an undefined terror of discovery when in his presence, and she wished the interview at an end. "I will see Mr.
"Yes, I have a pair of eyes; and that's just it If they wos a pair o' patent double-million magnifying gas microscopes of hextra power, p'r'aps I might be able to see through two flights o' stairs and a deal door; but bein' only eyes, you see, my wision's limited."
"I was thinking of going on in the pantomime as one of the hextra ladies, if they'll 'ave me." "Oh, Jenny, you won't do that, will you? A theatre is only sinfulness, as we 'ave always knowed." "You know that I don't 'old with all them preachy-preachy brethren says about the theatre." "I can't argue I 'aven't the strength, and it interferes with the milk."
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