Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 19, 2025
Toley in charge, came aboard in high humor. "I may be wrong," remarked Bulger, "but judgin' by cap'n's face, he've been an' choused the Pirate got twice the valley o' the goods he's landed." "I wonder where Mr. Diggle is?" said Desmond. "You en't no call to mourn for him, I tell you.
But when misfortune descends on one of us, like a topmast in a typhoon, it's time to stop bickerin'. Me an' Bart, driftin' along the docks for a constitootional this mornin', bears the sorrerful tidin's that your new navigatin' officer an' your new engineer has quit. Judgin' from that shanty on your left eye, at least one of 'em quit under protest.
Up to now, judgin' by the way she's been lookin' at me, my wife believes I've got seven wives strewed around the country somewhere, either alive or buried in cellars.
"A' see naethin' tae excuse," insisted Jamie, who was in great fettle that Sabbath; "the doctor hes never been burdened wi' fees, and a'm judgin' he coonted a wumman's gratitude that he saved frae weedowhood the best he ever got."
The Doc won't mind, bein' as she turned it down." "Where is Dr. Martin gone, Billy? He needs a cup of tea; he's been up all night. He must be feeling tough." "Judgin' by his langwidge I should surmise yes," said Billy judicially. "Would you get him, Billy, and bring him here?" "Get him? S'pose I could. But as to bringin' him here, I'd prefer wild cats myself.
The minister, he hinted that he had some doubts about them dissipated gunners; and the gunners cal'lated they never see a parson yet wouldn't bear watchin'. As for me, I felt like a pickpocket, and, judgin' from Jonadab's face, he felt the same. "The detective man swooped around quiet, bobbin' up in unexpected places, like a porpoise, and askin' questions once in a while.
Mr Thornycroft, judgin' by the looks of that houn', you ain't give him enough to eat to keep a cat alive an' a cat we all know, don't eat much, just messes over her vittles. You condemned that po' beast, for no fault of his own, to the life of a felon. A houn' that ain't happy at best, he's melancholy; an' a houn' that ain't allowed to run free is of all critters the wretchedest.
"I looked, and there wa'n't no less than a dozen pages of James Kellys beginning with fifty James A.'s and endin' with four James Z.'s. The Y in 'New York' ought to be a C, judgin' by that directory. "'Godfrey mighty! I says. 'This ain't no forenoon's job, Jonadab. If you're goin' through that list you'll have to spend the rest of your life here.
I reckon, judgin' from ther outlook over thar, thet the dance is 'bout ter begin; leastwise, the fiddlers is takin' their places," and he waved his gnarled hand toward the distant crowd. "Got somethin' like a reg'ment thar now, hoss and fut, an' it's safe ter bet thar 's more a-comin'. This yere fracas must be gittin' some celebrated, an' bids fair ter draw bigger 'n a three-ringed circus.
"An' who 'ud yer 'ave me leave it with? Ain't Bessie my own sister's child?" An emaciated hand stole out of the bed-clothes and fastened feebly on his arm. "If yer do, John, yer'll repent it. Yer never were a good one at judgin' folk. Yer doan't consider nothin' an' I'm a-goin'. Leave it with Saunders, John." There was a pause. Then John said with an obstinate look
Word Of The Day
Others Looking