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Pavel Petrovitch's unexpected action had alarmed every one in the house, and her more than any one; Prokofitch was the only person not agitated by it; he discoursed upon how gentlemen in his day used to fight, but only with real gentlemen; low curs like that they used to order a horsewhipping in the stable for their insolence.
"It doesn't pay to call him names. We must think out a way to meet this thing." "I'll horsewhip him on the street!" exclaimed Duncan. "No, don't! That would only advertise the matter and do no good. A man of your physique has no occasion for fear in horsewhipping a man like Napper Tandy, and can show no courage by doing it.
Bless my soul, what fellows the world is made of, when here's a man, calling himself a gentleman, who, just because he gets in a rage with his wife for one thing or another and past all competition the handsomest woman of her day, and the cleverest, the nicest, the best of the whole boiling has her out for a public horsewhipping, and sets all the idiots of the kingdom against her!
"He started to do it yesterday," she answered, "but Li Choo came in time, and he horsewhipped Li Choo instead." "I wouldn't myself be horsewhipping Chinamen much," said Orlando. "They're a queer lot." Suddenly she got to her feet. "I won't stand it. I won't stand it any longer," she cried.
Romfrey's, and thought well of Nevil Beauchamp as a seaman and naval officer, but shook an old head over him as a politician. He came to beg a passage across the water to his marine Lodge, an accident having happened early in the morning to his yacht, the Lady Violet. He was able to communicate the latest version of the horsewhipping of Dr. Shrapnel, from which it appeared that after Mr.
These Purcels are hem ahem too much in the habit of violating the law, Sam, and that's not right it's illaygal it's illay-gal, Sam, to violate the law; I say so, and I think I can't allow such breaches of the" here, however, the thought of the conspiracy occurred, and swayed him in a moment against Hourigan. "To be sure Hourigan's a scoundrel, and deserves a horsewhipping every day he rises."
It spoke still more for his resolution that, having heard it, he continued his horsewhipping to the bitter end before he replied "Whoever you are, sir, that will teach you how to behave to a lady." "You fool!" hissed Ratman, with an oath, getting up from the ground; "you'll be sorry for this. I'll be even with you. I'll ruin you. I'll turn your precious ward out of the place.
She left England and appeared upon the Continent as a beautiful virago, making a sensation as the French would say, a succes de scandale by boxing the ears of people who offended her, and even on one occasion horsewhipping a policeman who was in attendance on the King of Prussia. In Paris she tried once more to be a dancer, but Paris would not have her.
Mac-Morlan, in the transports of his wrath, flung the power of attorney at the head of the innocent maid-servant, and was only forcibly withheld from horsewhipping the rascally messenger, by whose sloth and drunkenness the disappointment had taken place. My gold is gone, my money is spent, My land now take it unto thee. Give me thy gold, good John o' Scales, And thine for aye my land shall be.
It was here, in room No. 72, that Dalton so terribly punched the long-suffering head of Tim Healy. At the Four Courts, Dublin, I saw a waiter who witnessed the famous horsewhipping in that city. I asked him if it were a severe affair, or whether, as the Nationalist papers affirmed, only a formality, a sort of Consider-yourself-flogged. How that waiter expanded and enjoyed the Pleasures of Memory!
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