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Updated: June 15, 2025
The doctor looked up from his contemplation of the mustard-pot, and it seemed to Esther that his dull eyes met and held the young man's shallow hazel ones for an appreciable space of time. "Well," he said at length, "do you particularly want to go?" "Like hell," was the brief reply. "H'm! In that case I should certainly leave the decision till the last possible moment.
"'If you'll take a word from me, sir, said Link, 'we'd best up sail and get out of this. "'What about the other anchor? I suggested. " Try it if you like, said he. 'In my belief it won't hold any more than a tin mustard-pot. "Nor did it, when we let go. He came back after a few minutes from the darkness forward. 'No go, said he. 'Nothing to do but slip and clear.
The lid of a mustard-pot was put into a cupboard by the servant-girl in the presence of scores of people, and in a few minutes afterwards came bouncing down the chimney to the consternation of everybody. There was also a tremendous knocking at the doors and on the roof, and pieces of stick and pebble-stones rattled against the windows and broke them.
You will see what her friends will make out of it! and out of the brutal violence of our mob." "Disgusting!" said Mrs. Watton, playing severely with the lid of the mustard-pot that stood beside her. She and Harding were enjoying a late breakfast tete-a-tete.
There was a beautiful young lord there, that sort of figure that no woman can resist. There was a delightful chappie who seemed inclined to empty the mustard-pot down my neck; him I could keep in order, but the beautiful lord I saw was attempting to make a butt of me.
The parson was as grave as a mustard-pot, and Father Flannagan called the bride and bridegroom his childher, which was a big bounce for him to say the likes of, more betoken that neither of them was a drop's blood to him. "However, he pulled out the book, and was just beginning to buckle them when in comes Jack's ould acquaintance, the smoking cur, as grave as ever.
A knife and fork, which had not been worn out by over-cleaning, flanked a cracked delf plate; a nearly empty mustard-pot, placed on one side of the table, balanced a salt-cellar, containing an article of a grayish, or rather a blackish mixture, upon the other, both of stone-ware, and bearing too obvious marks of recent service.
You do wisely, by the mass, you do wisely; for had you not been ready to clap your hind face on the mustard-pot as soon as you came within sight of these arms mark ye me, cop's body the bottom of your breeches had supplied the office of a close-stool.
When one does not feel very kindly disposed to the man or woman whom our dear friend is going to marry there is a great temptation I don't know that it need be resisted to send a gift that will be the property and pleasure of that friend, and not to give the mutual mustard-pot into which both will dip the spoon. How to Send Them. All wedding presents should be nicely and daintily packed up.
He loved his country, and couldn't bear it, and had given information. He had never been suspected of stealing a silver tea-pot; he had been maligned respecting a mustard-pot, but it turned out to be only a plated one. He had known the last witness seven or eight years; that was merely a coincidence. He didn't call it a particularly curious coincidence; most coincidences were curious.
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