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Do you see me being hauled back, stark naked, off one of these little islands by the scruff of the neck and fighting like a wild beast? Somebody would have got killed for certain, and I did not want any of that. So I went on. Then your ladder " "Why didn't you hail the ship?" I asked, a little louder. He touched my shoulder lightly. Lazy footsteps came right over our heads and stopped.
Scruff, who sat watching the chink of light under the door, turned his head, blinked at him, and began feebly tapping with a claw. It was intolerable, this uncertainty to be near, and yet so far, was not endurable! Herr Paul stepped across the room. The dog, following, threw his black-marked muzzle upwards with a gruff noise, and went back to the door.
Whenever I set eyes on you, I recognise as ill-done everything you do; whether I watch you stand, or waggle and walk, ducking, nidnodding, blinking with your eyes, my impulse is to catch the nidnodder by the scruff of the neck, to hurl out of the way for good and all the odious blinker! That is my manner, Mime, of being fond of you.
The next time I sees you, you'll go 'ome on a shutter." The old man took that, and that, and went on his way. The next day he came again. "Clo'! Clo'!" he whimpered. "What!" said the ruffian, his coarse cheeks flooded with angry blood. "Ev yer forgotten what I promised yer?" He seized Sleepy Sol by the scruff of the neck. "I say, why can't you leave the old man alone?"
They have, in short, begged you to take me by the scruff of the neck and kick me out into the gutter where I belong. Well, kick me. You know as well as I do, that I can't kick back." "You hurt me very much," said Dr. Ferris simply, "if that is any pleasure to you." "It is," said Blizzard. "What your intuition has told you," continued Barbara's father, "is the truth.
This it seems was by no means an uncommon occurrence among the dishonest waterside knaves of those days, and it afforded vast sport to a mob of small craft that gathered round, and the people in which covered me with ridicule and abuse, calling me a Thames Bilk, and advising the waterman to hold me over the side of the boat by the scruff of the neck and give me a Ducking.
Idiot was one of the terms, the mildest, which I should have applied to that young man. I wanted very much to remove him from that car by what Lute would call the scruff of the neck. But most of all, just then, I wanted to be alone, to see the last of the auto and its occupants. "First turn to the right, second to the left," I said, sullenly. "Thank you, Reuben," vouchsafed the young man.
"I don't think your suggestion is a bad one," Solomin observed at last, "although there is not much hope of success. At any rate there is no harm in trying." "Of course not. Supposing they pitch me out by the scruff of the neck, what harm will it do?" "What is the time?" Solomin asked. "Five o'clock. We mustn't dawdle. You shall have the horses directly. Pavel!"
"Who's for Lebanon?" cried the big river-driver with an oath. "Who's for giving Lebanon hell, and ducking Ingolby in the river?" "I am I am I am all of us!" shouted the crowd. "It's no good waiting for to-morrow. Let's get the Lebs by the scruff to-night. Let's break Ingolby's windows and soak him in the Sagalac. Allons allons gai!"
"Ventre bleu, Vigo!" his young lord cried. "No," said Vigo. "I can't have her here, and Mayenne's army after her." "Coward!" shouted M. Étienne. I thought Vigo would take us both by the scruff of our necks and throw us out of the place. But he answered undisturbed: "No, that is not the reason, monsieur.
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