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Updated: May 28, 2025
Someone was being pig-headed indeed! Along about two o'clock in the morning the eager pilots, tossing on their beds in a sleeplessness induced by the promise of the coming of dawn, were more fully awakened by the deep and sullen thundering of thousands of big guns hammering at the lines. It was no fitful, momentary outburst; it was the constant earth-shaking roar that presages a drive.
You will drive away from the church the remaining faithful ones, and that is all the good it will do. In this district they are religious, but pig-headed; be careful. Faith, when I see a girl come to confess who looks rather stout, I say to myself: 'She is bringing me a new parishioner, and I try to get her married.
"Indeed!" sneered the soldier; "then, I suppose you have named him Albert after your pig-headed King!" "No," answered Father De Smet, "I think too much of my King to name my mule after him." "Oh, ho!" said the German; "then perhaps you have named him for the Kaiser!" Netteke had marched steadily along during this conversation, and they were now past the soldier.
When he came back he reported that Thrusty Ellen and Jonathan were asleep in the tents, and nobody had seen Robert and Corinne. While searching the streets earlier in the evening, Grandma Padgett observed the pig-headed man's pavilion, and this she also explored with Zene.
Of course they are expecting it very soon now. They talk of the 15th of June." Mr. Pendyce took from his wife his coat, passing his arms down the satin sleeves. "If I could get the cottagers to have families like that," he said, "I shouldn't have much trouble about labour. They're a pig-headed lot do nothing that they're told. Give me some eau-de-Cologne, Margery." Mrs.
"Those lubbers for'ard," he said when Hartog, he, and I sat together one evening in the cabin, "will make trouble if they can. They are a pig-headed lot, and a dozen apiece at the gratings would do them no harm. But while they outnumber us, as they do, three to one, we must avoid a quarrel.
England would have had Italy submit to that Austrian rule which had been established over her by English influence in 1814, when even the perverse, pig-headed Francis II. could see sound objections to it; and all because want of submission on her part would disturb the equilibrium of Europe, and might tend to the aggrandizement of France, two things which she by no means desired to see happen.
My third experience of a "pig-headed" master mariner, followed very quickly so quickly, that I began to think some evil star attended my fortunes, or rather misfortunes.
Smallweed is seated, that she only quite desists when her grandchildren have held her down in it, her lord in the meanwhile bestowing upon her, with great volubility, the endearing epithet of "a pig-headed jackdaw," repeated a surprising number of times. "My dear sir," Grandfather Smallweed then proceeds, addressing Mr. Guppy, "there has been a calamity here. Have you heard of it, either of you?"
But if the considerate line of conduct before suggested be acted upon by the captain, unless the lieutenant be a very pig-headed person, who mistakes opposition for zeal, he will readily see that the true way of forwarding the service is to enter heartily, cheerfully, and attentively, into the peculiar plans of his chief.
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