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The old fellow hasn't managed to play it, he doesn't understand how to work the business." Babet added, still in that classical slang which was spoken by Poulailler and Cartouche, and which is to the bold, new, highly colored and risky argot used by Brujon what the language of Racine is to the language of Andre Chenier: "Your tavern-keeper must have been nabbed in the act. You have to be knowing.
"It's busted entirely!" "Run!" cried Sagger. "If you don't you'll be nabbed sure!" And then the crowd ran with all their speed, scrambling out of the hole as best they could. They did not stop until they were half a dozen blocks away and on their way home. "We made a fizzle of it dat trip," said Sagger, dolefully. "It's all your fault," growled one of the boys. "I ain't goin' out wid you again.
"Well, Buck," he said at last, "there's one thing quite certain; he hasn't gone on his own account." "Sure thing," replied Buck. "And if he's been nabbed in some mysterious fashion or another, we're pretty certain who's got hold of him," pursued Jim, and Buck nodded with a blank face. At the next instant Jim's suspicions were confirmed by the Burman.
He fed coins into the proper slots, took his sandwich and milk over to a seat in one corner and made himself comfortable. He flipped open the newspaper and looked at the front page. And, for a moment, his brain seemed to freeze. The story itself was straightforward enough: BENCHAIM KIDNAPERS NABBED! STAN MARTIN DOES IT AGAIN!
"She climbs up a ladder on the outside of the wall, which is eight feet high and two feet thick, and down another which is inside," interrupted Mrs. Tate, to whom the question had not been asked. "I wish to goodness I had been there the day she nabbed your boys, Beth. I don't wonder they were scared." "They were certainly scared." Mrs. Moon wiped her lips and smiled reminiscently.
Not that he wants to bunco. He's had his dose. He's learned it isn't safe. But he'd make some dashing coup; he couldn't help it. Maybe he'd get nabbed." "What a horrid person!" said Lydia. "How can you have anything to do with him?" "Why, he's interesting," said Jeffrey, in a way she found brutal. "He's a criminal. He's got outside." "Outside what?" she persisted. "Law.
The Treasury Department will have it that he was the head of that Fourteenth Street gang of coiners, and I've a pal down at Baltimore who is ready to take his oath that he planned the theft of the Vanderloon jewels and brought it off, too! But I tell you this, sir. When the trouble comes, whoever gets nabbed it's never Jocelyn Thew. He's the slickest thing that ever came down the pike."
One of them nabbed him quickly and ran off with him; but he did not bite hard. He was playful and wanted to amuse himself awhile with Thumbietot before eating him. The other cub was after the first one to snatch the boy for himself, and as he lumbered along he managed to tumble straight down on the head of the one that carried the boy.
Make ready present fire! In a moment the troops of the Celestial Empire smarted, and were spattered with seeming gore, and fled yelling. Then he told how a poor comrade of his was nabbed and clapped in prison, and his hands and feet were to be cut off at sunrise; himself at noon.
"But, look here!" cried Hadden, "how do you mean to manage? You can whisk round in a hansom and no questions asked; but if you try to come on a quarter-deck, my boy, you'll get nabbed." "I'll have to keep back till the last," replied Wicks, "and take another name." "But how about clearing? What other name?" asked Tommy, a little bewildered. "I don't know yet," returned the captain, with a grin.
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