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They lay awake on the night in question, with the express purpose of satisfying themselves as to the hour of his return, and as that was between twelve and one, they laid it down as a certain fact that there was something "not light," and beyond the common in his remaining out so late. "Hark, forward, forward; holla ho!"
Then Theseus shouted to him, 'Holla, thou valiant pine-bender, hast thou two fir-trees left for me? And Sinis leapt to his feet, and answered, pointing to the bones above his head, 'My larder has grown empty lately, so I have two fir-trees ready for thee. And he rushed on Theseus, lifting his club, and Theseus rushed upon him.
'Give me my slave! shrieked the virago, placing her mighty grasp on the breast of the Greek. 'Not if all your sister Furies could help you, answered Glaucus. 'Fear not, sweet Nydia; an Athenian never forsook distress! 'Holla! said Burbo, rising reluctantly, 'What turmoil is all this about a slave?
He was indeed a great master of this kind of vociferation, and had a holla proper for most occasions in life.
Should I happen to pass the gallows stone, I shall just take a sight with one eye, And think to myself, you may dangle alone, Who now, sir, 's the fool, you or I? Hark! a shot! SPIEGEL. Another! RAZ. And another! The captain! The Nurnbergers deem it the wisest plan, Never to hang till they've caught their man. Da capo. Holla, ho! Holla, ho! RAZ. Roller! by all the devils! Roller! Razman! Schwarz!
The kitchen was now a scene of universal confusion, Western enquiring after his daughter, and Fitzpatrick as eagerly after his wife, when Jones entered the room, unfortunately having Sophia's muff in his hand. As soon as Western saw Jones, he set up the same holla as is used by sportsmen when their game is in view.
He went straight into the hall and stood upon the threshold and looked round. He saw his cousins sitting at the table, and loud they laughed and fast they passed the wine-cup round, but no Ægeus sat among them. They saw Theseus and called to him, "Holla, tall stranger at the door, what is your will to-day?" "I come to ask for hospitality." "Then take it and welcome.
Bob drops one of the guineas between his fingers, and says, 'Holla, dad, you have only tipped us nine of the yellow boys! Mr. Nabbem had scarcely finished this anecdote, when the farmer-like stranger, who had kept up by the side of the chaise, suddenly rode to the window, and touching his hat, said in a Norfolk accent, "Were the gentlemen we met on the road belonging to your party?
Would his Grace vouchsafe to come on to the privy chamber where the dinner was spread? At the same moment Quipsome Hal sprang forward, exclaiming, "How now, brother and namesake? Wherefore this coil? Hath cloth of gold wearied yet of cloth of frieze? Is she willing to own her right to this?" as he held out his bauble. "Holla, old Blister! art thou there?" said the King, good- humouredly.
Eumolpus had at first won their favor; but the gallantry of Lydon, and his well-timed allusion to the honor of the Pompeiian lanista, had afterward given the latter the preference in their eyes. "Holla, old fellow!" said Medon's neighbor to him. "Your son is hardly matched; but never fear, the editor will not permit him to be slain no, nor the people neither: he has behaved too bravely for that.
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