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Updated: May 18, 2025
In the graveyard round about are tombstones roughly sculptured, and the stone turbans indicating the cranium of a Mussulman; the Arab, again, after building his house of camel's hair, ordering his last turban to be woven by the stone-mason! We pass along a sterile country, with chalky rocks cropping from the ground and making our way increasingly difficult. All is dry as a lime-basket.
And to tell the truth, my sonny, my inside has been as dry as a lime-basket all night." "I like a party very well once in a while," said Mrs. Dewy, leaving off the adorned tones she had been bound to use throughout the evening, and returning to the natural marriage voice; "but, Lord, 'tis such a sight of heavy work next day!
Chitling wound up his observations by stating that he had not touched a drop of anything for forty-two moral long hard-working days; and that he 'wished he might be busted if he warn't as dry as a lime-basket. 'Where do you think the gentleman has come from, Oliver? inquired the Jew, with a grin, as the other boys put a bottle of spirits on the table. 'I I don't know, sir, replied Oliver.
" And so I used to eat a lot of salt fish afore going, and then by the time I got there I were as dry as a lime-basket so thorough dry that that ale would slip down ah, 'twould slip down sweet! Happy times! Heavenly times! Such lovely drunks as I used to have at that house! You can mind, Jacob? You used to go wi' me sometimes." "I can I can," said Jacob.
"And when their turn comes he gi'es them all a penny?" "Yes; that's it all round. So they chaps as goos out allus has some'at to spend." "And a very good way, too," said Joey, chuckling. "Well, I could drink a quaart now, and I've got a penny; s'pose you three chaps all gi'es me one apiece, for my throat's as dry as a lime-basket." The men looked at one another and chuckled.
" And so I used to eat a lot of salt fish afore going, and then by the time I got there I were as dry as a lime-basket so thorough dry that that ale would slip down ah, 'twould slip down sweet! Happy times! heavenly times! Such lovely drunks as I used to have at that house! You can mind, Jacob? You used to go wi' me sometimes." "I can I can." said Jacob.
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