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Gentlemen of the free-and-easy sort, who plume themselves on being acquainted with a move or two, and being usually equal to the time-of-day, express the wide range of their capacity for adventure by observing that they are good for anything from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter; between which opposite extremes, no doubt, there lies a tolerably wide and comprehensive range of subjects.
'I can't stay here a month, he cried. 'No one could. The thing's nonsense, Morris. The parties that lived in the Bastille would rise against a place like this. With an admirable affectation of indifference, Morris proposed a game of pitch-and-toss. To what will not the diplomatist condescend!
"Now, donkey," said Daggles, aiding his benevolent advice with a kick that made it nearly superfluous, "get down them kitchen stairs and learn pitch-and-toss, for you haven't brains enough for any thing else and recollect, you owes me a sovereign; half from master for telling, and half from the long-backed Ticket for keeping mum.
At the railway bridge, which carried a branch mineral line over the path, they exchanged a brief volley of words with the working-lads who always played pitch-and-toss there in the dinner-hour; and the Sunday added to the collection of shawds and stones lodged on the under ledges of the low iron girders.
"You're right, Straws!" exclaimed a pitch-and-toss youngster. "If she shows as well at the wire " "You'd take a long chance on her winning?" laughed the philosopher. "I'll play you odds on it!" cried the juvenile. "Four to one, damme! I'll risk that on her eyes." "Four to one on a lady's eyes, child! Say forty to one, and take the hazard of the die."
Bunter stopped, out of breath; and Captain Johns remarked, with the glow of inward satisfaction reflected in his tone: "I've always thought you were the sort of man that was ready for anything; from pitch-and-toss to wilful murder, as the saying goes. Well, well! So you were terrified." "I stepped back," said Bunter, curtly. "I don't remember anything else."
The dark and dismal arch under which he soon found himself opened upon a large courtyard, where a number of debtors were employed in playing at handball, pitch-and-toss, hustle-cap, and other games, for which relaxations the rigour of their creditors afforded them full leisure, while it debarred them the means of pursuing the honest labour by which they might have redeemed their affairs, and maintained their starving and beggared families.
But she knelt without movement, with her face in her hands, the hands which had so lightly played pitch-and-toss with a man's heart and a man's life, and prayed desperately, silently, for forgiveness.
But those who stayed outside to play pitch-and-toss were exposed to great danger and sufferings." By MIGUEL CERVANTES Some three or four hundred years ago, there lived in sunny Spain an old gentleman named Quixada, who owned a house and a small property near a village in La Mancha.
I feel nearly omnipotent. Epics and operas are child's play to me! It is true I have produced comparatively few; but, oh, those that are to come! I feel fit for anything, from pitch-and-toss to manslaughter. I think of the two, I rather lean to the manslaughter. Oh, I don't mean it in the facetious sense! that would be a terrible downfall from my present altitudes.
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