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Now, it says nay. A wonderful thing is the law with its yea, yea, and nay, nay, like Barclay, the Quaker man, that came down here in a leather suit, and ca'd the parson a steepleman. There's the law. It's no use shootin' at it, or passin' pikes through it, no, nor chargin' at it wi' a troop of horse. If it begins by saying "nay" it will say "nay" to the end of the chapter.
"I war jest passin' by," he announced, "an I 'lowed I'd light down an' make my manners. I'd love ter hev a drink of water, too." Without a word Parish turned and went toward the well and the visitor's eyes lit again to their avid hunger as he gazed at the girl. Abruptly he declared: "Don't never fergit what I told ye, Dorothy. I'd do most anything, fer you."
And then Larry la Roche went down the line with a saddlebag and took up the collection. "Passin' the hat so often has give me a religious touch, ladies and gents," Andrew heard the ruffian say. "Any little contributions I'm sure grateful for, and, if anything's held back, I'm apt to frisk the gent that don't fork over. Hey, you, what's that lump inside your coat? Lady, don't lie.
It's low, mum," says I, "is rats, but it's t' nature of a dog; an' soa's cuttin' round an' meetin' another dog or two an' passin' t' time o' day, an' hevvin' a bit of a turn-up wi' him like a Christian." So she says her dog maun't niver fight an' noa Christians iver fought.
When I heard the band on Setarday efternune, I threw the key i' the shop door, an' ran doon to the fit o' the street to see the sojers passin'. Wha presents himsel', merchin' in the front o' the band, but my billie, Sandy.
But I suppose we can whip the Johnnies anyway." "Of course we can," said Pennington, who was always of a most buoyant temperament. Sergeant Whitley went to the shutterless window, and looked out at the forest and the long array of tents. "The rain is about over," he said. "It was just a passin' shower. But it looks as if it had already added a fresh shade of green to the leaves and grass.
She see in the past natives burying their children alive, putting to death the mentally weak, worshipping horrible idols, killing and eating their enemies, etc., etc. But now, under the blessed light of the torch, that long procession of martyrs had held up, the former things wuz passin' away, and she, too, wuz one of that blessed host of God's helpers.
On my way home, I heard, as I was passin' the ould trees at the Rabbit Bank, things that I can't find words to tell you of." "Well acushla, glory be to God for everything! it's all his will, blessed be his name! What did you hear, avick? but wait till I throw a drop o' the holy wather that I have hangin' in the little bottle at the bed-post upon us."
She said as she'd been on the watch fer me ever since the storm quit. She said as she wanted to hunt wi' me." "You?" "An' why not? I ain't lyin', I guess. I 'lows she ain't like to say they things fer passin' time. She was allus easy an' free wi' me. Mebbe you're kind o' quiet. Wimmin mostly likes them as ken talk." Ralph's eyes darkened. His set face became more rigid.
Denis's uncle now interposed: "The horses," said he, "are at the door, an' time's passin'." "Och, thrue for you, Barny," said old Denis; "come, acushla, an' let me help you on your horse. We will go on quickly, as we're to meet Father Finnerty at the crass-roads." Denis then shook hands with them all, not forgetting honest Phadrick Murray, who exclaimed, as he bid him farewell, "Arrah!
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