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Updated: June 12, 2025
Dare any henchman of ours venture to go, with honey-cakes, with pattings and cajoleries, and slip the imperial muzzle well round the snout of that rugged ursine animal? An iracund bear, of dangerous proportions, and justly irritated against us at present?
Indeed, there is only one name that is near to it in familiarity." "You trouble me," I said, frowning. "I have tried to do my duty for its own sake, and for the country's sake, not for the pattings and fondlings of the vulgar. And besides, if there are names to be in every one's mouth, they should be the names of the Gods." Tatho shrugged his shoulders. "The Gods?
Thus do we of Bhotiyal offer all the world daily to the Excellent Law. And I do it even now, though I know that the Excellent One is beyond all pinchings and pattings. He snuffed from his gourd. 'It is well done, Holy One, Kim murmured, sinking at ease on the cushions, very happy and rather tired. 'And also, the old man chuckled, 'I write pictures of the Wheel of Life. Three days to a picture.
The one patriot I found to applaud my high resolve was a French pawnbroker, who, with many compliments and shoulder pattings, took my trunk and all its contents, after I had paid my board out of it, in exchange for a ticket to New York. He took my watch, too, but that didn't keep time. I remember seeing my brush go with a grim smile. Having no clothes to brush, I had no need of it any longer.
That night before she went to bed Stephen came and sat on her father's knee, and after sundry pattings and kissings whispered in his ear: 'Daddy, wouldn't it be nice if Harold could come here altogether? Couldn't you ask him to? And old Mr. Harold could come too. Oh, I wish he was here! Two years afterwards a great blow fell upon Harold.
For a collie it was sturdily built, its nose blunter than most, its yellow hair stiff rather than silky, and it had full eyes, unlike the slit eyes of its breed. Only its master could touch it, for it ignored strangers, and despised their pattings when any dared to pat it. There was something patriarchal about the old beast.
Find the balls, old fellow" therefore he understands my sentence. He simply grasps the words "find" and "balls," sees the game at a standstill, and reasons out our needs and his responsibilities, quickened by the expectation of pattings on the head, pettings, and pieces of biscuit.
She choked and she gurgled, until the last drop had left her windpipe under the persuasion of pattings on the back from the others and then she gave herself up to loud, hoarse laughter, through which there shrilled the staccato squeaks of wee wifie. Nothing, even if you are being laughed at yourself, is so infectious as prolonged laughter, and the Padre felt himself forced to join it.
Wise youths who buy their loves, are not unwilling, when opportunity offers, to try and obtain the commodity for nothing. Examinations of her hand, as for some occult purpose, and unctuous pattings of the same, were not infrequent. Adrian waxed now and then Anacreontic in his compliments. Lucy would say: "That's worse than Lord Mountfalcon."
For a few minutes noisy confusion prevailed, until the men could quieten their quivering animals with soft words and gentle pattings. Then the troopers obeyed, closing up round the coach wherein brother and sister sat huddled against one another. One of the men said under his breath: "Ah! but the citizen agent knows how to curse! One day he will break his gullet with the fury of his oaths."
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