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"How far away d'you reckon it is?" asked another man. "It's a long way yet, I reckon. You can't hear any thunder. I wonder if it's coming this way." Vaughan nudged his companion. "What are they talking about, Sax?" he asked. Stobart pointed north into the darkness.
So Walter stood idly watching the said ship, and as he looked, lo! folk passing him toward the gangway. These were three; first came a dwarf, dark-brown of hue and hideous, with long arms and ears exceeding great and dog-teeth that stuck out like the fangs of a wild beast. He was clad in a rich coat of yellow silk, and bare in his hand a crooked bow, and was girt with a broad sax.
Riding Tests During the exciting scenes at the yards, Sax and Vaughan had come out from the shelter of the tank, wholly absorbed in the wild life they were now witnessing for the first time. With the keen delight which every healthy-minded boy has in adventure, they followed every twist and turn, wishing with all their hearts that they were in the thick of it and not mere lookers-on.
That's because they work with white men, or with decent chaps like Becker Singh. His boys aren't bad. But you leave them alone for a week, and they'll be just as bad as that old buck there. Don't you ever forget " he added earnestly, "don't you ever forget that that's the real nigger you've just seen. And don't you have too much to do with them." "There's not much fear of that," said Sax.
"Weel, Jamie, the crittur, took it oot o' his pouch an' kind o' hesitated. Syne he lays't on the back o' the fire, an' they sat thegither glowerin' at it. "'Noo, mother, he says, 'you're satisfied, are ye no'? "Ay," Leeby ended her story, "she said she was satisfied. But she saw 'at he laid it on the fire fell fond-like." "Juist another sax nichts, Jamie," Jess would say, sadly.
This decisive advantage secured the conquests of Aella, who assumed the name of king, and extended his dominion over Sussex and a great part of Surrey. Sax. p.14. Ann. Flor. None of the other tribes of Saxons met with such vigorous resistance, or exerted such valour and perseverance in pushing their conquests.
In any other man after what had passed in the morning this would have been an audacious proceeding. He looked so painfully embarrassed, that it became a species of Christian duty to pity him. "Won't you shake hands?" he said, just as he had said it at Sandwich. I peeped round the corner of my fan at Miss Melbury. She was looking at us. I shook hands with Mr. Sax.
Heukbane; "pride will hae a fa' he hasna settled his account wi' my gudeman, the deacon, for this twalmonth he's but slink, I doubt." "Nor wi' huz for sax months," echoed Mrs. Shortcake "He's but a brunt crust." "There's a letter," interrupted the trusty postmistress, "from his son, the captain, I'm thinking the seal has the same things wi' the Knockwinnock carriage.
Betty rushed in, drying her hands on her apron. She had not heard him enter. 'Eh losh! she cried, and put her wet apron to her eyes. 'Sic a man as ye're grown, Robert! A puir body like me maunna be speykin to ye noo. 'There's nae odds in me, Betty, returned Robert. ''Deed but there is. Ye're sax feet an' a hairy ower, I s' warran'.
There was a sair fyke in the beginning, but the governor, seeing him resolved, gied him his discharge, and he went and dwallt and merried in North Berwick, and had aye a gude name with honest folk free that day on. It was in the year seeventeen hunner and sax that the Bass cam in the hands o' the Da'rymples, and there was twa men soucht the chairge of it.
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