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I did not want to eat at first, and when I did begin to want to they would not let me. If I felt sort of peckish they let me suck a little glass thermometer, but there is not much nourishment really in thermometers.
They would think more of our raft than the Frenchmen did, though there are not many boys afloat who would not try to do as we have done." Jack was of the same opinion, and as there was no necessity for rowing, while Bill steered, Jack sat on a chest with his arms folded. Suddenly he exclaimed, "I say, Bill, I am getting very peckish; I vote we have some supper."
Food and a frothing drink were all that he asked from Fortune. It seemed to him that the concourse on the downs shifted in a restless way. "What's doing, I wonder?" he thought aloud. "Why, sir, the last race ain't generally fashionable," said his cabman, appearing from behind his shoulder. "Don't you happen to be peckish, sir? 'cause, luck or no luck, that's my case.
Well, you are plainly dressed; nothing but that brown merino. And my dear, I thought they were always dressed up to the nines near London. This place is near London, isn't it?" "Yes, a few miles off. Oh, of course your dress is very nice; but now I must get ready for dinner." "Oh! and ain't I peckish?" said Kitty, clapping her hands and winking broadly at Fred. Alice turned to leave the room.
'We'd better not let it get peckish. Try it with a loaf o' bread. "The cook went below and fetched up half-a-dozen, an' one o' the chaps, plucking up courage, slung it over the side, an' afore you could say 'Jack Robinson' the sarpint had woffled it up an' was looking for more.
On the contrary, an atmosphere of mild cheerfulness prevailed. Yet they were very kind. Somebody an uncle, I think left me a packet of sandwiches and a little something in a flask, in case, as he said, I should feel peckish on the scaffold. It is "those twin-jailers of the daring" thought, Knowledge and Experience, that teach us surprise.
But the boys guessed that their sufferings would only give pleasure to their captors, and so they kept their troubles in this particular to themselves. "Tighten your belt," said Harry Girdwood; "squeeze your stomach, Jack, and don't let these wolves see that we are peckish." "Not me." Taking the hint, Jack drew in a reef.
Add to this, low stature, a tripe-coloured skin, a beardless face, a shrinking chin, a nose sharp-pointed and peckish, lank black hair falling over the forehead, and hanging down almost low enough to shadow a pair of deep-set weazel-like eyes: give to this combination of features a slightly sinister aspect, and you have the portrait of Joshua Stebbins.
"That's where we shall find William," said Esther. "I'm getting a bit peckish; ain't you, dear? He's got the luncheon-basket.... but, lor', what a lot of people! Look at that." What had attracted Sarah's attention was a boy walking through the crowd on a pair of stilts fully eight feet high.
At the present juncture two of the parties were hungry; the third what is called "peckish," which means a little hungry and quite capable of bolting a sandwich or the wing of a cold turkey; and the fourth very much in a hurry and anxious to get away to his business.
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