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Occasionally, the sailors, to show the extent of their regard, amused themselves by pouring a drop of grog down her throat. I never saw her fairly drunk, however, but twice; upon which occasions, as was to be expected, she acted pretty much like a human being in the same hoggish predicament.
What had happened was that some had taken more than their share, and that was why others had to go short, and the strange part of it all was that the hoggish ones were the exalted ones, to whom many bowed, and they some of them were scornful of the people who were still working though if every one stopped working, the world would soon be starving.
"What Father will teach me, I'll truly obey; I'll keep Mother's counsel, and not go astray; Then plagues and distempers they will have to cease, In all that live up to the gospel's increase. "The glutton's a seat in which evil can work, And in hoggish nature diseases will lurk: By faith and good works we can all overcome, And starve the old glutton until he is done.
He was as ragged and unkempt as ever. "I've been called a deadbeat, and I want it taken back," he said. "It's slander. I'm a celebrated mineralogist and assayer. Tell you how the deep leads run; analyze you anything. For example, we'll proceed to put this hotel-keeper in the crucible, and see what we get. It's thirty parts hoggish self-sufficiency, and ten parts ignorance.
And say, those conchos you remember the size of 'em, Jack? they're solid silver, hammered out and engraved by hand. Those Mexicans sure do turn out some fine work on their silver fixings!" He felt in his pocket for a match. "Pity I didn't let well enough alone," he went on. "I had the price of the outfit, and ten dollars over. But then I got hoggish.
There is an old, fat portrait of Gervoyse Holles, in a buff-coat, a coarse, hoggish, yet manly man. The painter is unknown; but I honor him, and Gervoyse Holles too, for one was willing to be truly rendered, and the other dared to do it.
And on the side, if he had time, the press-agent might even boost the lessons themselves do a little advertising for all the Sunday Schools in town, in fact. No use being hoggish toward the rest of 'em, providing we can keep the bulge on 'em in membership.
It had a black, hoggish nose, but there were fangs in its great jaws. It resembled a huge wolf, save as to its massiveness and club countenance, It was one of the monster hyenas of the time, a beast which must have been as dangerous to the men then living as any animal except the cave tiger and the cave bear.
He contented Himself with calling the Knowles girls hoggish, and put a direct question as to whether they had let fall any words about their situation, but Martha Downs was obliged to answer in the negative. "Was Enoch Holt there after the folks come back from the grave?" "He wa'n't; they never give him no encouragement neither." "He appeared well, I must say," continued Peter Downs.
We smoke and sing at the same time; we quarrel and make love the latter in somewhat primitive fashion; we roll about with the rolling of the train; we nod into hoggish sleep. The platform at Holborn Viaduct; and there, to Pennyloaf's terror, it is seen that Clem Peckover and her satellites have come by the same train.
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