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Updated: June 8, 2025
We don't live very high-falutin', but we have plenty o' plain, good victuals." "I'll remember what you say," answered our hero. An hour later he saw the countryman on a train bound for home, and then he started once more to look for a situation. All of that afternoon Joe looked for a position among the various hotels of the Quaker City.
Now we are happy. To-morrer our faces will turn south an' shine with bear's grease. "Sez I: 'You must wash no more in the same water with the French. You must return to The Long House. The Big Father will throw his great arm eround you. "I strutted up an' down, like a turkey gobbler, an' bellered out a lot o' that high-falutin' gab. I reckon I know how to shove an idee under their hides.
The sentence was final and absolute. I thought I would do the kind of good one can't do with a lifetime in front of one, and I wasted all my substance in riotous giving. In the elegant phraseology of high society I am stone-broke. As my training has not fitted me to earn my living in high-falutin ways, I must earn it in some humble capacity.
But then we have got something to look forward to in t'other world there'll be no wash-tubs and no district visitors there, with their texts and high-falutin' nonsense." Anna laughed merrily. In her quiet way she had a strong sense of humour. "I think I like Mrs. Parker, Malcolm." "Verity liked her too; she always says that she owes a great deal to her motherly care.
It was nuance of idiom that threw me. Calling me a brat and a so-and-so was affectionate misdirection to conceal " he broke off at their expressions. Helen darted a quick look around and came to his rescue again. "Timmy-chile, where you git these heah high-falutin' ex-pressions I'll never know. Hit shore ain't from you' low-talkin' pappy." "Or from yo' low-comedian mammy.
Send it on to your Aunt Phoebe; sorter make the old folks open their eyes oh? Well, seein' he's been to some expense fittin' up an entrance from the other street, we'll let him slide. But as to that d d old Frenchman Ferrers, in the next loft, with his stuck-up airs and high-falutin style, we must get quit of him; he's regularly gouged me in that ere horsehair spekilation."
"Waal, sir," said Ephraim Taft, a wholesale dealer in maple sugar and flavored lozenges, "you kin talk 'bout your new-fashioned dishes an' high-falutin' vittles; but when you come right down to it, there ain't no better eatin' than a dish o' baked pork 'n' beans." "That's so, b'gosh!" chorused the others. "The truth o' the matter is," continued Mr.
"Huh! it's all very well for you to talk that way, Jerry, because you happen to be a fine shot, and can bag your game the first clip; but what's a fellow going to do when he finds it difficult to hit a barn? I'd like to wager that with all your high-falutin' talk you do more execution among the poor game than comes to my share," answered Bluff, indignantly. "Oh! well, have it your own way.
'I don't take no stock in high-falutin'. If you're trying to scare me by that dime-novel talk I guess you've hit the wrong man. You're like the sweep that stuck in the chimney, a bit too big for your job. I reckon you've a talent for romance that's just wasted in soldiering.
Pythias is seventeen by the way and wants to work his way through college." "Mother of men!" said Kenny softly and thought of Joan's relief. "Sounds very beautiful and lofty in a letter," went on Whitaker, angling for sympathy, "but of all the damned, high-falutin' lunacy I've ever seen in men, that's the limit." He waited, confident in his expectation that Kenny would agree.
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