Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 2, 2025
What is it to you if O'Sullivan Og takes our dues for us and a trifle over? And, sorra one of you doubt it, if Mounseer comes jawing here, it's in the peat-hole he'll find himself! Or the devil the value of a cork he gets out of me; that's flat! Eh, Phelim?" "True for you, McMurrough!" the youth who sat beside him answered, winking. "We'll soak him for you."
"Remember, mounseer, if you hallo or make any row, we'll be back and blow your brains out for you," whispered Job Truefitt, as he placed him on the ground. A grunt was the only answer. It was doubtful whether the prisoner understood what was said, though he might have guessed the meaning of the remark. The seamen pushed on as fast as they could move.
The talk of a lady and gentleman who had graduated in the salons of the Hotel de Rambouillet was a foreign language to him; and he told his sister that it was all one to him whether Lady Fareham and the Mounseer talked French or English, since it was quite as hard to understand 'em in one language as in t'other. Papillon, this rustic youth adored.
James's Street, and entered the court, by a grated door from the Park, of which the mansion commanded an extensive prospect. Peveril finding himself in front of a handsome portico, under which opened a stately pair of folding-doors, was about to ascend the steps that led to the main entrance, when his guide seized him by the arm, exclaiming. "Hold, Mounseer!
Still I ought to have thought it looked queer when Mounseer took to disguising himself by leaving off his glasses, ha, ha! I wonder what Harry will say; let's go and talk to her." The parson, rejoiced at this easy way of taking the matter, hooked his arm into the squire's, and they walked amicably towards the Hall. But on coming first into the gardens they found Mrs.
"He's cook to some prince." "Eh, mounseer, Russian sauce seems to be sour to a Frenchman... sets his teeth on edge!" said a wrinkled clerk who was standing behind Pierre, when the Frenchman began to cry. The clerk glanced round, evidently hoping that his joke would be appreciated. Some people began to laugh, others continued to watch in dismay the executioner who was undressing the other man.
I pleaded, I argued, I spoke of the English hospitality and the fellowship of brave men, but I might as well have been addressing the two great wooden clubs which stood balanced upon the floor in front of me. There was no sign of sympathy upon their bull-faces. 'Business is business, mounseer, the old trainer repeated.
He seized hold of it, Bill did the same, and then they set about the fight with more precision. "Come on, ye puddock-eater!" cried Ben, again seizing Bill by the throat. "Hallo, Ben!" "Why, wot is't you, Bill? Well, now, if I didn't take 'e for a Mounseer!" Before more could be said a boat was observed rowing close past them. Ben hailed it.
Why, didn't they get him to talk to the French officers when we landed at Ceylon, and the French frigate was there? and my word, how he did jabber away! He might have been a real mounseer. Well, 'taint no business of mine; so long as he gets his accoutrements clean, and a good coating of pipeclay on his belts, that's enough for me.
'Look here, mounseer, drop it! he cried; 'this'll end by your getting pepper. 'Your clothes, sir, this instant! I shouted, advancing fiercely upon him. For answer he threw off his heavy great-coat, and stood in a singular attitude, with one arm out, and the other across his chest, looking at me with a curious smile.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking