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To explain these properly to a landsman, I would say, for the sake of easier comprehension, that the theory of a `bend' is based on the good- natured truism contained in the old adage, `One good turn deserves another'; while a second proverb, `Safe bind, safe find, will equally justify the existence of the `hitch'; but if the inquirer be not satisfied with either of these definitions or explanations, whichever term he may choose to apply to them, I can only advise him to follow Captain Cuttle's injunction and `overhaul his Church catechism.
He paused his voice trembled, and the good natured, bubbling humor, which had floated down the smooth channel of his talk, vanished as bubbles do when they float out into the deep pool beyond. "Here," he said, lifting his arm, and showing the coat of the Captain of Artillery "this is what made me jine 'em.
And never a wince for dignity, never a throb of shame at looking each other in the face, never any independence or resentment or disgust. If his father or his brother would only knock some one down once or twice a year! Clever as they were they never guessed the impression they made. They were good- natured, yes as good-natured as Jews at the doors of clothing-shops!
The husband was exchanging a little graceful badinage with the barmaid when she joined him, and perhaps this made her look a little cross. "She's jealous, too," said Mr. Chalker, observant; "all the better." Yet a face which, on the whole, was prepossessing and good natured, and betokened a disposition to make the best of the world. "How long has she been married?" Mr.
Some of them, therefore, hidd their victualls, others hidd their wives and their children. Some other fledd into the mountaines to seperate themselves afarr of from a nation of so harde natured and ghastly conversation. The Spaniardes buffeted them with their fistes and bastianadoes, pressinge also to lay their handes on the lordes of the townes.
Look on me, love!" exclaimed he, stretching his arms toward the sky; "look on me, and for once, till ever, cheer thy lonely, heart-stricken Wallace!" Tears choked his further utterance; and once more laying his head upon the stones, he wept in silence, till exhausted natured found repose in sleep.
A man got up pretty fat and good natured, with a voice that just went into you like when you push one key of the organ down and keep pumpin'. And he said a long prayer and asked for light and help, and for light to shine in the hearts of the people present, so as to show 'em their sin; and to save people from death, and from sudden death, and if they died, then that they might be ready and be saved.
I heard that in the western suburb the people 'looked ill- natured, so I have been the greater part of my two last days in that suburb, looking in vain into faces to discover these menacing indications.
But he wished he was a hundred miles off, if he was to hear a Hanoverian lecture from a man so good natured, and so dignified by his office, that he must always have his own way. Lady Rachel went to bed very miserable this night.
I know not whether she was acquainted with this epithet; but she had anticipated one of the fashions most characteristic of our age. One asks one's self how all this decoration, this luxury of fair and chiselled marble, survived the French Revolution. An hour of liberty in the choir of Brou would have been a carnival for the image- breakers. The well-fed Bressois are surely a good- natured people.
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