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That will leave you all shipshape in the morning, and you can then begin your cleaning up as soon as you please." The caretaker was as good as his word, and before ten o'clock the cots and bedding were in place, also an electric heater and an electric plate for cooking had been moved into the apartment.
Let's get her headed right, if we ever expect to turn the first mark. You see, 'twas this way: 'Twas in the early part of May follering the year that the "Old Home House" was opened. We'd had the place all painted up, decks holy-stoned, bunks overhauled, and one thing or 'nother, and the "Old Home" was all taut and shipshape, ready for the crew boarders, I mean.
But then, Nigel, poetry in your mother is poetry, an' she can do it, lad screeds of it equal to anything that Dibdin, or, or, that other fellow, you know, I forget his name ever put pen to why, your mother is herself a poem! neatly made up, rounded off at the corners, French-polished and all shipshape.
Now we're all taut and shipshape and nobody can get aboard to interrupt. Fire away, Zoeth. What is it you've got to tell?" Zoeth, his hand trembling, reached into the inside pocket of his coat, took out an old-fashioned wallet and from it produced a much-crumpled envelope. "Shadrach," he said, "I don't hardly know how to begin.
Then like a good and able leader, he brought matters shipshape, and later announced that the Horse Artillery would stay where it was for the night. The farmhouse in the orchard had been turned into a field hospital. Thither Pelham's wounded were borne. Of the hurt horses those that might be saved were carefully tended, the others shot. The pickets were placed.
She continued in the Spanish service till 1840, when she was sent to Bordeaux for repairs. The Spaniards, who are notorious slovens at keeping things shipshape, had allowed her to run down to bare rot after her Britisher-Canadian crew had left her. So the French bought her for a hulk and left her where she was.
So it happened that Bobby and Tucker, the two pirates, returned that day to their home under the escort of a tall young man who carried a bottle wrapped in pink paper in his hand, and looked serious. Old Pepy was at home. She ran about getting basins, and because Nikky had had his first-aid training, in a very short time everything was shipshape, and no one the worse.
There, beside the bank, was a little plank of wood, a child's plaything, roughly fashioned shipshape: two chips for funnels; red and yellow frosted leaves for flags; a withered dogwood blossom for propeller. He leaned closer, with whirling mind. In the clear cool surface of the pond he could see the sky mirrored, deeper than any ocean, pellucid, infinite, blue. He ran up the path to the house.
"I've saved your lives, anyway," declared Archie cheerfully, when their derision had spent itself. "And I'm going to again. I hired a lovely scrub-lady to come to-morrow and make this spot look shipshape " "O, Archie!" cried the girls, "you beautiful boy!" "Don't interrupt," said the beautiful boy sternly. "I am going to vindicate myself.
Twelve English, a hundred thousand Sniders run through the Amir's country in driblets I'd be content with twenty thousand in one year and we'd be an Empire. When everything was shipshape, I'd hand over the crown this crown I'm wearing now to Queen Victoria on my knees, and she'd say: "Rise up, Sir Daniel Dravot." Oh, it's big! It's big, I tell you!
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