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There are political parties under the names of Whigs, Democrats, Know-nothings, Freesoilers, Fusionists, Hunkers, Woolly-heads, Dough-faces, Hard-shells, Soft-shells, Silver- greys, and I know not what besides; all of them extremely puzzling to the stranger, but of great local significance.
One morning I received a call from Mr. Cushing, before I had taken my breakfast. Evidently he had had a conference with the leading "hunkers" who had deputed him to state their case to me. After considerable conversation, which perhaps was not satisfactory to Mr.
And after acting like more kinds of a fool thataway in less time than anybody I ever see before, you sit up on yore hunkers and tell me I'll have more'n I can swing at the finish. Say, you make me laugh! Listen, Lanpher, for a feller that's come out second best with the Bar S outfit as many times as you have it looks to me like you was crowdin' Providence a heap close."
You heard it fall. My eyes, I fear, won't serve me, and I'm unable to stoop low enough; but if you will look, you shall have half the find. It is a guinea; I carried it in my glove." The street was silent and deserted. The footman had hardly descended to what he termed his "hunkers," and begun to search the pavement about the spot which the old man indicated, when Mr.
It was a beauteous shot, and sent the fellow to his hunkers, actually boohooing with agony. And now, with another fine long sweep, this time upward, Pretty sent a smashing blow at the third tramp's upraised arm.
"Helen," I said, "will you please go into the other room?" "Helen, stay here!" Mary ordered. "I shall do neither the one nor the other. I shall go up-stairs." She turned to leave. "If you go, Helen, I'll go with you," Mary announced. Another ancestral spook with dwarfed, hairy body and gorilla arms, climbed to my left shoulder, sat down on his hunkers and whispered in my ear: "Treat 'em rough!"
It squatted on its hunkers, and swelled up, then it approached stealthily and sat down two steps away from its master's face, staring at him with an atrociously false eye, signifying that the time had come for him to abdicate and leave the warm place for a cold cat. Amused by its manoeuvres, Durtal did not move, but returned its stare.
He glanced up at her with comic shrewdness from where he sat on his hunkers for fine he saw through her and "Ou ay," said he, "ye great muckle fat hotch o' a dacent bodie, ye I'll gang in and have a dish o' tea wi' ye." And away went the fine fuddled fellow. "She's a wise woman that," said the ex-Provost, looking after them. "She kenned no to flyte, and he went like a lamb."
In 1860, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, California, Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Oregon crossed to the same side. The repeal of the Missouri Compromise was politically a remarkable epoch. It not only consolidated old anti-slavery men, but cooled, to say the least, many "silvergray," or conservative Whigs, as well as many "hards" and "hunkers" among the Democrats.
If I 'm not very much mistaken, he 'll be the most astounded man in the world when you open the box. You want to do it, too open it under his nose; dazzle his eyes hypnotize him with its blood-red flame." He had been working himself slowly into a passion; now it ended in a violent outburst. "Make the old dog get down on his hunkers and beg, d'ye hear? Make him whine!
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