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But that Herbert Montaigne, now, is rippin'! He has the right 'air, and so has the shorty, the fat Monty, only his figure is against him," he had remarked to Mateo, who had instantly agreed with him. Indeed, the Mexican never disagreed with his "gracious excellency, Señor Leslie." Mateo's service was an easy one and his salary good.
He saw two of his under clerks, with the impropriety of middle-class youth, looking out of an office window at the dark blue brougham and the tall young lady, whose beauty bloomed in the sunshine. He did not, on the whole, wonder at, though he deplored, the conduct of the young men. But they, of course, saw only what they colloquially described to each other as a "rippin' handsome girl."
But I have always made a practice of rippin' and tearin' and bastin', and settin' her right, and I did now. Wall, she hadn't hardly got out of the back door, when Josiah Allen came in in awful distress, he had got a thorn in his foot, he had put on an old pair of boots, and there wuz a hole in the side of one of 'em, and the thorn had got in through the hole.
There ought to be some rippin' rides round here, if my memory doesn't fail me." She nodded, and the conversation took a turn that Sir Nigel found more than pleasant, and the time passed most agreeably. Merriton, only anxious to entertain his guests, suddenly exploded the bomb which shattered that afternoon's enjoyment for all three of them.
"He come up out of the river!" shrilled one as he ran. "I seen him! An' I seen him go under a year back! He come hell a rippin' up through the bushes an' a she one a follerin'!" Men crowded about the bolder spirits, the matter of fact, and the unsuperstitious among the crew and Bill turned again to Moncrossen, who stood rooted in his tracks.
"I hit 'im purty hard," John said, as Mostyn rejoined him, "but if thar is anything on earth that makes me rippin' mad it is the way fellers like that look an' act." They found thirty or forty men, women, and children at the store awaiting the coming of the preacher. The building was a long, one- story frame structure made of undressed planks whitewashed.
However, it is highly probable that I can give them the warning to flee, and yet rejoin you in time for the attack." "We hate to lose a good man, when there's rippin' an' tearin' ahead of us," said the Ring Tailed Panther. "But if people of his blood are in such great danger he must even go," said Potter. Urrea's face was drawn with lines of mental pain.
We can't let 'em set over there besiegin' us, we must cross an' besiege them an' get to roarin' an' rippin' an' clawin'." "To-morrow," said Obed, "more of our friends will be here and when we all get together we will discuss it and make a decision." "Of course we'll discuss it!" roared the Ring Tailed Panther, "an' then we'll come to a decision, an' there's only one decision that we can come to.
"Shouldn't have disturbed you; but your orders were that whenever I had an interesting story about the life over here, I was to tell it to you instantly. And this one is just rippin'!" "Begin," said Elsa. She sat up and threw back her cloak, for it was now growing warm. "It's about Parrot & Co., I'm sure." "You've hit it off the first thing," admiringly. "Well, go on."
Her of the sharp tongue an' warm heart an' houseful of creatures, every blessed one of that same rippin' off buttons that constant, an' her livin' the very pattern of handiness to Simpson's trestle an' couldn't have been planned no better not if Hi, baby, how goes it?"
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