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"You know dashed well that our swags are in the bar, and we can't smoke without them. "Well, then," says Bill, "I'll toss you to see who's to face the landlord." "Well, I'll be blessed!" I says. "I'll see you further first. You have got a front. You mugged that stuff away, and you'll have to get us out of the mess."
If Smith wouldn't do as Steelman told him, or wasn't successful in cadging, or mugged any game they had in hand, Steelman would threaten to stoush him; and, if the warning proved ineffectual after the second or third time, he would stoush him. One day, on the track, they came to a place where an old Scottish couple kept a general store and shanty.
I think he piped me as I blew in, but I ain't sure. He'll be pokin' in here in a minute. If he sees me talkin', to the guy there, for instance, and you give him a steer, he won't look too close. Sabe?" And Overland drank, observing the Easterner at the table over the top of his glass. "They got that guy Overland Red mugged in every station from here to Chicago," whispered Orcutt.
A lot of what they say doesn't make sense either bullying, or bragging, or purposeless swearing but talk is their normal state; when they quiet down it means trouble. For instance, if you ever find yourself walking down Thirty-Fifth Street and a couple of kids pass you, talking, you don't have to bother looking around; but if they stop talking, turn quickly. You're about to be mugged.
Just put her on a reach, you know, and she carries it off pretty well " "I know," I nodded. "Well, we mugged up about seven o'clock. There was a good deal of canned stuff in the galley, and Björnsen wasn't a bad hand with a kettle a thoroughgoing Square-head he was tall and lean and yellow-haired, with little fat, round cheeks and a white mustache. Not a bad chap at all.
"I'm not saying anything yet, Boyle. I'm not saying you was there, but " he stood up and was standing over the prisoner his face thrust forward, his eyes glinting threateningly, "Boyle, you got a record as long as a pedigreed dog. You've been mugged and finger printed all over this country.
The Old Masters we're always having it dinned into us didn't hustle; they mugged away at a Saint, or a Virgin and Child, and never minded if it took 'em half a lifetime.
While some claimed that he had been beaten by the police, others said that he had been "mugged" by Green's followers. Before he was released on bail Ali wrote a letter from prison to his followers encouraging them to have faith in him and in their future. His letter bore distinctly messianic overtones.
So I stuck my revolver nearly in his face, and pulled the hammer up and up. Good God, Bunny, if I had pulled too hard! But that made him blink a bit, and I was jolly glad to let it down again. 'Out with those emeralds, says I in low German mugged up in case of need. Of course you realise that I was absolutely unrecognisable, a low blackguard with a blackened face.
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