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She carefully measured out half a pint of the unsavory fluid the dregs of the casks and the scourings of the ledge. "I will drink first," she cried. "No, no," he interrupted impatiently. "Give it to me." She pretended to be surprised. "As a mere matter of politeness " "I am sorry, but I must insist." She gave him the cup over his shoulder. He placed it to his lips and gulped steadily.
We may be great colonists we Britons, but I fear our stocking Burmah with scourings from India is only great as an evil. Now I will pass Rangoon in my journal.
Having been fastidiously purified by repeated scourings and ablutions, it proved very useful in preparing our meals, of which fresh fish frequently formed the principal part. In the evening, as we sat at the terraced top of Castle-hill, Johnny took seriously in hand the important business of finding appropriate names for the discoveries of the day.
The inhabitants of Port Said, we are told, represent the scourings of the Levant; too bad for Cairo, and black-balled for Hell. All the same G. and I went ashore by ourselves after dinner, rather proud of our courage, for several passengers said it wasn't safe.
"We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last." "True for you, sir," said Meehawl MacMurrachu. "Many people consider that scourings supplementary to these are only due to habit. Now, habit is continuity of action, it is a most detestable thing and is very difficult to get away from.
Jack Meredith drew in his legs and leant forward. "But," he said, interrupting, and yet not interrupting "but the public mind is an unclean sink. Everything that goes into it comes out tainted. Therefore it is best only to let the public mind have the scourings, as it were, of one's existence.
The reader is, therefore, to take it for granted though I scorn to waste in the detail that time which my furrowed brow and trembling hand inform me is invaluable that all the while the great Peter was occupied in those tremendous and bloody contests which I shall shortly rehearse, there was a continued series of little, dirty, sniveling scourings, broils, and maraudings, kept up on the eastern frontiers by the moss-troopers of Connecticut.
His actions in this war had become the theme of every tongue, and many hesitated not to compare him in prowess with the immortal Cid.* * Cura de los Palacios. Thus gallantly attended, the queen entered the vanquished frontier of Granada, journeying securely along the pleasant banks of the Xenil, so lately subject to the scourings of the Moors.
Do you ascend, Monsieur Felix." The young man drew back. He was not without courage, or experience of rough scenes. But the Louvre was close at hand, almost within earshot on one side, the Châtelet was scarcely farther off on the other; and both swarmed with soldiers and the armed scourings of the streets.
His actions in this war had become the theme of every tongue, and many hesitated not to compare him in prowess with the immortal Cid. "Thus gallantly attended, the queen entered the vanquished frontier of Granada, journeying securely along the pleasant banks of the Xenel, so lately subject to the scourings of the Moors.
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