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Rag-tag and bob-tail of the Singapore docks, crimp fodder that was what Dennison believed he had the right to expect. And behold! Except that they were older, the newcomers lined up about average with the departing able seamen. The transshipping of the crews occupied about an hour.
"Yes, I've noticed that it's running over with the rag-tag and bob-tail of all Europe! If you think I'll butt into that Bedlam, my dear child, you're badly mistaken. I'd rather live with the freaks in a museum." "But it's so quiet here." "I'm glad of it! Besides, I thought you wanted quiet?" "Only for your sake don't you see, we're trying our best to please you.
Farmer Derwent and his four stout sons set off on an autumn night for the meeting of patriots at a house on the Wissahickon, a meeting that bodes no good to the British encamped in Philadelphia, let the red-coats laugh as they will at the rag-tag and bob-tail that are joining the army of Mr. Washington in the wilds of the Skippack.
It is the grandest tribute ever paid to American manhood. With more barbaric mummery, flummery and vulgar waste of wealth than characterized even the late Marlborough- Vanderbilt wedding, Nicholas Two-Eyes was crowned Emperor of the rag-tag and bob-tail of creation, officially known as "all the Russias."
"We've developed thorns with our new rose, Dave," chuckled Andrew as he relighted his pipe. "Sweet hope of heaven, yes," groaned David. "My gore drips all the time from the gashes. I suppose it is a killing grief to her that I haven't a star corporation practise instead of fooling around the criminal court fighting old Taylor to get a square deal for the darky rag-tag most of my time.
There was a terrible Indian fight here once; the Pawnees in the king-row, and all the hosts of the Midianites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, Kiowa, Comanche, and Kaw, rag-tag and bobtail, trying to get 'em out. I don't know who won, but the citadel got christened Pawnee Rock. It took a fountain filled with blood to do it, though." Rex Krane gave a long whistle.
Poet, b. at Portland, and ed. at Yale, was mainly a journalist, and conducted various magazines, including the American Monthly; but he also wrote short poems, many of which were popular, of which perhaps the best is "Unseen Spirits," stories, and works of a more or less fugitive character, with such titles as Pencillings by the Way , Inklings of Adventure, Letters from under a Bridge , People I have Met, The Rag-Tag, The Slingsby Papers, etc., some of which were originally contributed to his magazines.
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