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Updated: May 19, 2025
Salina put on her sun-bonnet and shawl, merely saying that "she was going out a spell," and took a short cut across the fields towards Judge Sharp's house, leaving the Old Homestead on her right, determined not to visit that till after her errand was accomplished.
The saddle, a famous Cheyenne and forty pounds in weight, was black, richly embossed, and decorated with bits of beaten silver which flashed back the sunlight. At the pommel hung a thirty-foot coil of braided horsehair rope, and at the rear was a Sharp's .50-caliber, breech-loading rifle, its owner having small use for any other make.
I sees that buck his horns eetches is what makes him jump eighteen feet into the air an' comb them antlers of his'n through the hangin' pine limbs. Does it to stop the eetchin' an' rub the velvet off. Of course I cuts down on him with the Sharp's. It's a new gun that a-way, an' the sights is too coarse you drags a dog through the hind sights easy an' I holds high.
One does not say: "You should see Brailsford's cat" or "You should see Adcock's cat" or "You should see Sharp's cat," but "You should see our cat." There is nothing we are more egoistic about not even children than about cats. I have heard a man, for lack of anything better to boast about, boasting that his cat eats cheese.
The majority felt that it was not wise at that conjuncture to quarrel with the clergy; and the subject was suffered to drop. While the Commons were discussing Sharp's sermon, the Lords had again gone into a committee on the state of the nation, and had ordered the resolution which pronounced the throne vacant to be read clause by clause.
"Now then, my lads, off with you." The postmen had come into the sorting-room, and were packing their bags and slinging their parcels. "Sharp's the word." Picking up his unopened letter, the postmaster went through the public office, stood on the outer threshold, and looked up and down the street.
Burnet quotes an exclamation of Archbishop Sharp's, after an attempt to assassinate him, and adds: This was the single expression savouring of piety, that ever fell from him in all the conversation that passed between him and me. Swift. Rank malice. Burnet. No body could ever tell me how the word "Ecclesiastical matters" was put in the Act.
The most important passages in Sharp's letters will be found in Burton's history, vii. pp. 129-146. "Memoirs of Captain John Creichton," pp. 57-9. The torture of the thumbkin is said to have been introduced into Scotland by Lord Perth, who had seen it practised in Russia.
That young officer had studied Caesar's Commentaries, Marshal Turenne's Works, Sharp's Military Guide, and many legal and standard works upon government and history, while drilling a militia company, the Kentish Guards, and following the humble labor of a blacksmith's apprentice. He fully appreciated the value of the hours spent before Boston.
The next important case was that of a negro named Lewis. He 'had formerly, says Mr Sharp's biographer, 'been a slave in possession of a Mr Stapylton, who now resided at Chelsea.
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