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"It is a snake-out-of the grass, rather, Strand," observed the captain, for he could speak to whom he pleased, without presumption or degradation. "Had she stayed in port, now, she would have been in the grass, and we might have scotched her."
I have been so cut and scotched and lopped by the sufferings which I have endured that I am best alone. It cannot all be described; and yet with you I would have no reticence.
In those days Bedford returned two members, and at the General Election of 1852, which scotched Lord Derby's attempt to revive Protection, "Young Sam Whitbread" was returned as junior Member for the Borough, and at the elections of 1857, 1859, 1865, 1868, 1874, 1880, 1885, 1886, and 1892 he was again elected, each time after a contest and each time at the top of the poll.
He was ready to read and admire the work of the great Smith, but he did not wish to hear of the period when the great Smith had writhed and twisted like a scotched worm, only hoping to be put out of his misery, to go mad or die, to escape somehow from the bitter pains. And Lucian knew no one else.
Their veto was left to them, but the right of initiation was taken away, and no law or measure of any kind was thenceforth to be submitted to the popular assembly till it had been considered in the Curia and had received the Senate's sanction. Thus the snake was scotched, and it might be hoped would die of its wounds. Sulpicius and his brother demagogues were dead. Marius was exiled.
"Your Majesty will not give heed to such a villain's fabrications?" said Nicholas. "Are they fabrications, sir?" rejoined James, somewhat sharply. "We maun hear and judge. The snake, though scotched, will still bite, it seems. We hae hangit a Highland cateran without trial afore this, and we may be tempted to tak the law into our ain hands again. Bear the villain hence.
I fancy the launch will float a little higher up, but we must risk it. We will take her in, unship the mast, tie a few boughs and vines on the funnel, and not twenty search-lights will find us." A rumble of approving murmurs showed that he had scotched the dragon. It was even ready to become subservient again. He continued rapidly: "No vessel of deep draught can come close in shore from the east.
He drank greedily from the bottle, spilling a little over his chin. "Say, is your face badly cut up, Al?" "No, it's just scotched, skin's off; looks like beefsteak, I reckon.... Ever been to Strasburg?" "No." "Man, that's the town. And the girls in that costume.... Whee!" "Say, you're from San Francisco, aren't you?" "Sure."
Even the author of "The Moonstone" is scotched by the spirit of the age, and in the preface to "Armsdale" declares for a greater freedom of theme one of the first announcements of that desire for an extension of the subject-matter which was in the next generation to bring such a change. It seems just to represent all these secondary novelists as subsidiary to Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot.
Here was a really great victory, a victory the reverberation of which rang through the whole Scandinavian world, rejoicing Malcolm of Scotland, who without himself striking a blow, saw his enemies lying scotched at his feet, so scotched in fact, that after the defeat of Clontarf they never again became a serious peril. Yet as regards Ireland itself what was the result?
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