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Updated: June 17, 2025
Give em the little Tremendous!" Beneath him the sea was black with boats. From the port-holes of the main-deck the wounded were leaning out, hailing round-shot down into the boats. "Plug em! ply em!" roared the Gunner. "Red ot shot cannister case! anything ye like only give em slaughter for eaven's sweet sake!"
At length I planted the varnish tree, or ailanthus, which succeeded completely in binding the sand." This result encouraged the proprietor to extend his plantations over both dunes and sand steppes, and in the course ot sixteen years this rapidly growing tree had formed real forests. Other landholders have imitated his example with great advantage.
Perhaps as brave a man as ever lived, brave as a weasel, he must still reassure himself with the tones of his own voice; he must play his part to exaggeration, he must out-Herod Herod, insult all that was respectable, and brave all that was formidable, in a kind of desperate wager with himself. "Golly, but it's 'ot!" said he. "Cruel 'ot, I call it. Nice d'y to get your gruel in!
"I have it," he said, in an excited tone. "Look at that paper; see how creamy and white it is, and above all, look at the printing in the corner 'OT VILLA, TOORAK." "Then he went down to Toorak?" "In an hour, and back again hardly!" "Then it was not written from Toorak?" "No, it was written in one of the Melbourne back slums." "How do you know?"
Among the Ot Danoms of Borneo girls at the age of eight or ten years are shut up in a little room or cell of the house, and cut off from all intercourse with the world for a long time. The cell, like the rest of the house, is raised on piles above the ground, and is lit by a single small window opening on a lonely place, so that the girl is in almost total darkness.
He rattled the shining lids of the hot cans from time to time to attract attention as his cracked voice chanted his familiar cry, "Peas an' pies, all 'ot, all 'ot!" And he drove a brisk trade among the uninvited guests, who paid for their own. Inside, they drank the health of the married couple; but the dozen of beer barely wet their throats.
"Hamericans is bloomin' green," he remarked, "so youse can stand for Hamerican, right enough. No other wissitors is such blarsted fools. But yon's the palace, an' I s'pose 'is Majesty'll give ye a 'ot reception." "Thanks; I'll look him up," said the boy, and left the officer convulsed with laughter. He soon knew why.
Notwithstanding her ignorant and unreasonable prejudice against western men and women, western towns and prairies, and, in short, everything western, down to western politics and western politicians, whom she perversely asserted to be tue lowest ot all western products, there was still some common sense in Sybil's idea. When that inevitable hour struck for Mr.
Three times in one week that made with me 'aving me 'ot barth and a fine sleep in me brahss bed grand good luck, I say now, and said it then to the mate, adding to it: 'There's a signal station west of Gibraltar wouldn't it be delightful passing that signal station to get the word to put back to Gib and stop there for another night and I 'ave another 'ot barth and a lovely sleep in my four-poster bed. But the mate 'e only says 'e didn't have no brahss bed aboard ship to sleep in, and he saved his 'ot barths, he did,'til he got 'ome to enjoy 'em proper.
"It ain't nine yet, miss," answered Moggie in a tone of remonstrance. "I know that none of your cheek! If you come up here hollering at people's doors, how can anyone sleep? Bring the hot water at once, and mind it is hot." "You'll have to wait till it gits 'ot, miss." "Shall I? If it wasn't too much trouble I'd come out and smack your face for you, you dirty little wretch!"
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