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"It's a plaguey nuisance, that's what it is," said Stansfield; "we are sure to get licked. Who's to play half-back instead of him, I'd like to know?" "Forrester, in the Fourth, plays a very good half-back," said Callonby; "he's tremendously quick on his feet." "Yes, but he can't kick. I've a good mind to put Wraysford in the place.
As a rule, with her pattern, they have got sense enough to give up hope and take what Nature sends 'em in a patient spirit. But not Minnie. Hope won't die and, in a word, she's a plaguey piece and she's got a sharp tongue too, and when I'm too old to hold my own she'll give me hell." "Why don't she go into one of them institutions?"
Whereat Jack added to the firm, Isaacs of Hamburg, Larochelle of Canada, Warramugga of Van Dieman's Land, Smuts Bieken of the Cape of Good Hope, and the Maharajah of Mahound of the East Indies that was a plaguey devilish-looking black fellow, pock-marked, and with a terrible great paunch to him.
He said nothing, smoked for some time, and then grunted out: "'It's my experience that folks who have no vices have plaguey few virtues." A later version ascribes the reproof to a brother Kentuckian, also a stage companion, variation sufficient to prove the happening.
Say no more 'tis useless for I won't be persuaded against my judgment." "As you will," says I. "There's another reason, if other's needed," says he, "and that's this plaguey thirst of mine, which seizes me when I'm doleful or joyful, with a force there's no resisting.
'There is nought amiss with it, I answered. 'How can such trifles occupy you at such a time? 'Trifles! he cried angrily. 'Trifles! Well, there, it boots not to argue with you. Your bucolic mind would never rise to the subtle import which may lie in such matters the rest of mind which it is to have them right, and the plaguey uneasiness when aught is wrong.
"Yes," said I to myself, "put on your hat for your wife's sake, and your own too; for though you may fail to get a stroke of the sun, you may get not an inflammation of the brain, for there ain't enough of it for that complaint to feed on, but rheumatism in the head; and that will cause a plaguey sight more pain than the dragoon's helmet ever did, by a long chalk."
Penrose, yo' preachers talk abaat th' Cross, and it's o' reet that yo' should; but yo' cannot blame me for talkin' abaat my flute, con yo', when it's bin my salvation? And whenever awm a bit daanhearted, or hardhearted, or fratchy wi' th' missus, or plaguey wi' fo'k, aw goes to th' owd flute, and it helps me o'er th' stile. But it's gettin' lat'; let's be goin' wom'.
They rebuked him, and bringing him shields and a lance, proceeded to tie him up so tightly with shields behind and shields before that he could scarcely move. Then they bade him march, and lead on the army. "March!" quoth he. "These bonds stick so plaguey close that I cannot so much as bend my knees!" "For shame!" they answered. "It is fear and not armour that stiffens your legs."
He listened in increasing alarm and amazement and his old limbs tottered beneath him, so that he called out, hastily: "Give me a seat, somebody, quick, before I fall. I I to think of my little gell my own sweet-faced, lovin' little gell Oh, I can't believe it! I can't and I won't. It's some plaguey Californy yarn' you're passin' the time with. Atlantic!
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