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Updated: June 12, 2025
"So I do, the land-sharks! Down on their bellies, too! No flag, either! But that ain't no reason why we shouldn't have a flag. It ought to be waving at 'em in defiance right over our heads!" "Flags draw fire. They let the enemy know where you are, Tom explained. "The Hussars didn't bother about that. We let out a yell and went after 'em!" growled grandfather.
Commissioner, if you let them land-sharks take the roof from over my children and the little from them as they has to live on, whoever again calls this state great or its government just will have a lie in their mouths" The Commissioner laid this letter aside with a sigh. Many, many such letters he had received.
"In ye go, my beauties," said Swankie, covering them up. "Mony's the time I've buried ye." "Ay, an' mony's the time ye've helped at their resurrection," added Spink, with a laugh. "Noo, we'll away an' have a look at the kegs in the Forbidden Cave," said Swankie, "see that they're a' richt, an' then have our game wi' the land-sharks."
They had a medley of souvenirs with them, parrots and other birds, and all kinds of gay garments those land-sharks the Jews not even sparing these poor, pitiful emigrants, but doing their best to make them part with their little store of hard-earned savings, by offering them these gaudy articles of apparel, to cover or replace their own poor warm clothing.
We have here in England no idea of the troubles and inconveniences which flow from the existence of these large landholders land-thieves, land-sharks, or land-grabbers, they are more commonly and plainly called. Thus the townlands of Monterey are all in the hands of a single man. How they came there is an obscure, vexatious question, and rightly or wrongly the man is hated with a great hatred.
Trumbull; 'he must be brought to speech of the laird. 'That will be kittle steering, said the subordinate personage; 'for I understood that the laird and his folk were no sooner on the other side than the land-sharks were on them, and some mounted lobsters from Carlisle; and so they were obliged to split and squander.
"Better leave it where it is," counselled Jerry, his cautious thrift dominating even in that hour of death. "Land-sharks is allus lookin' out sharp for sailormen that git on shore." "It's why I don't dast to go into business me that's follered the sea so long," returned the skipper, nursing his aching leg. "Then do as I tell ye to do," said the old man on the bed.
As victims of ill-made, badly-found, and rotten vessels, not to speak of land-sharks and sea-sharks as the sufferers in life and limb when shippers and brokers may be actually benefiting from casualties sailors, as a class, merit public sympathy instead of reproach or discouragement.
He hinted at the possibility of internecine strife eventually awakening the cupidity of "land-sharks" all over the country. If there was land worth killing folks for, there was land worth stealing. If the Concho Valley was once thrown open to homesteaders, then farewell free range and fat cattle and sheep.
You can imagine how joyful I feel at saving their fortune from land-sharks, and landing it safe in an honest man's hands." Skinner gave him the receipt. "All right, little gentleman; now my heart is relieved of such a weight. Good-bye, shake hands. God bless you! God bless you both!" And with this he was out and making ardently for Albion Villa.
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