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Then Hasjelti and Hostjoghon returned to the lodge, and Hasjelti, amid hoots, "hu-hoo-hu-huh!" placed the square which he carried over the invalid’s head, and Hostjoghon shook two eagle wands, one in each hand, on each side of the invalid’s head and body, then over his head, meanwhile hooting in his peculiar way, "hu-u-u-u-uh!" He then followed Hasjelti out of the lodge.
'Hoots, Maister Arthur, let that flea stick by the wa'. We maun do at Rome as Rome does, as ye'll soon find' and disregarding Arthur's exclamation 'and the bit bairn, I thocht ye said he was no Scot, when I was daundering awa' at the French yestreen.
I remember once detaining a dentist with the drill at one of my lower bicuspids and holding him up for nearly ten minutes with a story about a Scotchman, an Irishman, and a Jew. Purely automatic. The more he tried to jab, the more I said "Hoots, mon," "Begorrah," and "Oy, oy". When one loses one's nerve, one simply babbles. I could put myself in Gussie's place. I could envisage the scene.
In fact the Roman sense of fair play was offended when the lanista gave Almo a mere moment of rest and then set against him a sixth antagonist. Murmurs ran from tier to tier, there were hoots and cat-calls. Aurelius put up his hand and the people became still. It was not often that the entire throng in the Colosseum focussed its attention on anyone fighter. That happened now.
She turned her head, as from the direction their mounts had taken came the sound of approaching hoots. "Natives from the hills." She nodded carelessly toward the purple mountains back of them. But the next moment she gave a little gasp of consternation.
To add to my difficulties I had stupidly left my only pair of strong hoots on board the steamer, and my others were by this time all dropping to pieces, so that I was obliged to walk about barefooted, and in constant fear of hurting my feet, and causing a wound which might lay me up for weeks, as had happened in Borneo, Are, and Dorey.
It was the last thing I wrote for the `Grasshopper. How I ever came to imagine it, I cannot tell. It is one of those things which occur to a man but once in a lifetime. After the wild shout of delight with which the public greeted that conundrum, my subsequent efforts met with hoots of derision. The `Grasshopper' turned its hind legs upon me.
"He has a wife, Sir," observed Angus, "and the men of his own kidney think he would be rather better off if he had none." "Hoots, but I'm sorry to hear it," said the Laird. "What ails her, ken ye, laddie?" "As I understood, Sir, she had three grave drawbacks. In the first place, she is a widow with a rich jointure." "That's a queer thing to call a drawback!" said the Laird.
"Now by Saint Andrew," exclaimed he, "are ye kelpie or pirate?" "Neither, captain," I replied, smiling as the comical end of it came up to me, "but a young gentleman in misfortune." "Hoots!" says he, frowning at the grinning half-circle about us, "it's daft ye are " But there he paused, and took of me a second sizing.
"Hoots!" said the woman, "dinna speyk that gait, sir. It's no wice-like. Tak a dram, an' tak hert, an' dinna fling the calf efter the coo. Whaur's yer boatle, sir?" John paid no heed to her suggestion, but Jean took it up. "The boatle's whaur ye s' no lay han' upo' 't," she said.
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