nebucannezzar

Updated: May 13, 2025

"Right's the word, ould Nebucannezzar," he cried, and heaved up to his feet. "So long, Kitty, woman! S'long! We'll finish it another night though, and then the ould man himself will be houlding the candle." Outside in the road somebody touched him on the shoulder. It was the young man in the Alpine hat. "My gough! What? Phil!" cried Pete, and he laid hold of him with both hands at once.

Sir Hall Caine - The Manxman: A Novel - 1895