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"We says, sir," he began, addressing the major "I mean they says as we I mean they ain't fighting men, never having 'llsted or gone in the ryle navy; but in a case like this they will no, we will, for of course I ar'n't going to stand back have no objection to a bit of a set-to so as to lick the niggers.
Both lads bustled about trying to make him comfortable near the cheery blaze, and then filling a pannikin with the canoeist's stew of corn beef, succotash and left-over potatoes, they invited him to set-to, nor wait for them a second.
When this had been accomplished, there came a busy time of routing out various matter of which we should have need in jury rigging her; for they had been so long in disuse, that none remembered where to look for them. At this a day and a half was spent, and after that we set-to about fitting her with such jury-masts as we could manage from our material.
Then Sponge thought he shouldn't have an opportunity of showing the horse till Thursday, for Jack had satisfied him that the next day's meet was quite beyond distance from Jawleyford Court. 'It's a bore, said he, rising in his stirrups, and tickling the piebald with his spurs, as if he were going to set-to for a race.
My folks here don't care nothin' about fun they even frown on it, Alf with the rest, and I hold that he ought to know better, bein' a man, but so it is. I've got a chicken house back here, with a high picket fence around it, and I keep it locked, I tell you. After we get a snack we'll slip off and have a set-to. What do you say?" I hardly knew what to say.
Ivan the Terrible did undoubtedly make his subjects feel very serious indeed; and stupid people are apt to believe that this sort of terror-stiffened seriousness is virtue. It is not. Any person who should set-to deliberately to contrive artificial earthquakes, scuttle liners, and start epidemics with a view to the moral elevation of his countrymen, would very soon find himself in the dock.
He dearly loves to see a set-to, self the same. What prettier? And if you would be so obliging some day as to favour us with a display, we'd head a cap conformably, whether you'd the best of it, according to your expectations, or t' other way: For there never was shame in a jolly good licking as the song says: that is, if you take it and make it appear jolly good.
He threw Wagg from him with a force that sent the man staggering; the guard stumbled over a rock and fell on his back. He turned on the convicts. By his set-to with Wagg he had gained their full attention. "You low-lived scoundrels, do you know an honest man when you lay eyes on him? I declare that I am one. Dispute me, and I'll knock your teeth down your throats guns or no guns.
If we had a jolly good light he'd forget all about it, and I shouldn't hear any more about the miserable business. Here, what can we do to make the Boers come on? I might get killed in the set-to, and then I should escape this awful wigging." "Who ought to go and see the doctor now?" I said. "Who's going mad?" "I am, I believe, old fellow; and enough to make me.
Charge of corrupting the Scriptures. Ben Mousa Ettanee. The Bishop of Gibraltar. Continue teaching Geography. Ruin of the Country. Approaching end of the World. Seeing the New Moon. My Taleb disputes about Religion. Movements of Banditti. The small Force by which the Turks hold Tripoli. 28th. HEARD the Shâanbah شعانبة and Touaricks are about to have a set-to.
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