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We've come from London, so she needn't be afraid." "From London! Near seven thousand miles! Jigger me if ever I heard the like of it! What do you think of that, Mr. McWhirter?" "Rather a long un," replied the mate. "Well, hang me, if you've come across the Bay of Bengal, you're sartin sure to be able to make Penang. She shall go with you, and that'll be one load off my mind. Go and fetch her, Mr.
In the Cumberland insurrection he was suspected of being 'Jack on both sides of the bush, left that place in a small jigger bound for Windsor, was taken ill on the passage, thrown down into the hold among the ballast, was taken out at Windsor half dead, and had little better than the burial of a dog. He lived under a general dislike and died without any to regret his death."
The vanner, as well as the jigger, will become an instrument of precision; and in combination with rushing appliances operated by cheap power in almost unlimited quantities it will materially assist in multiplying the world's supply of metals. This again will aid in promoting the further extension of machinery.
"Well, out with it." "Not enough pipeclay, sir." "Oh, I see." "Jigger the pipeclay! It's a regular cuss. Ah, it's you laughing now, sir. Can I do anything else for you, sir?" "N-n-no." "'Cause the cook will be howling after me directly, and I don't want to be out with him." "No, I suppose not; but what about that bait for fishing?" "Oh, that's all right, sir. I will be ready.
Stafford's servant is here. There is a girl for to see him, if he will let. The boy, Jigger, his name. Something happens." Stafford frowned, then turned to Jasmine. He told her who Jigger was, and of the incident the day before, adding that he had no idea of the reason for the visit; but it must be important, or nothing would have induced his servant to fetch the girl.
There was great hopelessness in the tone. "He told me you would always have enough to help you get on, Jigger. He thought of all that." "'Ere, oh, 'ere it ain't that," the lad said in a sudden passion of protest, the tears standing in his eyes. "It ain't that! Wot's money, when your friend wot give it ain't 'ere! I never done nothing for 'im that's wot I feel. Nothing at all for 'im."
"You're just in the nick o' time. They're going to jump on the old lady." "Who's going to jump?" "High Sheriff Niles and his posse. They ain't more'n ten rods behind, jigger wagon and all." The Duke of Fort Canibas stared a moment at the herald. Aunt Charette raised her eyes to her protector with the air of one secure under the wings of a patron saint, and went on knitting.
She would lead him into the Shade, snap her Fingers, call his Name, and gradually pull him out of the Trance. He would look at her with a filmy Gaze and smile faintly, as if partly remembering and then say: "Don't forget to follow through. Keep the head down tight with the left no hunching pivot on the hips. For a Cuppy Lie, take the Nib. If running up with the Jigger, drop her dead. The full St.
The sails were shaken loose, the mainsail slowly spread its dazzling expanse to the sun, the jib and jigger were trimmed, and the anchor came up with a short rush. Millie rose with her arms outspread, her chin high and eyes closed. "Free!" she proclaimed with a slow, deep breath. The sails filled and the ketch forged ahead. John Woolfolk, at the wheel, glanced at the chart section beside him.
While my left hand was employed in feeling the latch, I made such good use of my right, as to keep my antagonists at a safe distance. The one who was nearest to me, was Fib Fakescrew; he was armed with a weapon exactly similar to my own. the whole passage rung with oaths and threats. "Crash the cull down with him down with him, before he dubs the jigger.
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