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Updated: June 5, 2025
"This is no place for schoolmasters." "On the contrary," retorted Old Dut, as coolly as before, "this is just the proper place for me, for I've appointed myself to teach you a lesson, my man. Throw off your overcoat, I don't want to take you unfairly." As Old Dut spoke he "shucked" his own coat, tossing it to the curb. "Wait, Mr. Jones, and we'll get a policeman," urged Dick.
"Over there," the Lieutenant went on, "there would be no facilities for assembling the parts. That is why the work was done here." "Of course," laughed Frank. "And this floating dry dock," continued the officer, "will be roofed over and its contents kept secret. A short distance from the Taya Islands, she will be shucked of her shell and take to the water. No one will know what her mission is."
“Doggone my corn shucked bones, Le-loo, we’ve had a visitor but it got away mighty slick and quick. I hain’t determint yit whether it wa’ man er beast er both, er jist a thing wha’ might change into ’tother. We’ll hafter investigate later. Here git these duds on.”
And indeed her cheeks were ruddy with outdoors, the corners of her eyes relaxed. But she was so stiff that they had hobbled a mile, and Father had shucked several tons of corn in return for breakfast, before she ceased feeling as though her legs were made of extraordinarily brittle glass. Sometimes they were fêted adventurers who were credited with having tramped over most of the globe.
In the autumn season, after a debauch of weeks, I have hired out and shucked or husked corn in order to get money with which to buy myself boots and winter clothing. I occasionally taught school in the country, but not for money, for I have made more at my profession, when in a condition to practice it, in a single day than I got for teaching a whole month.
I've caught them before. Used to be a sort of specialty of mine. And there's one thing about them they'll blab their pointed little heads off if you can get one alive and promise it its catnip...." He'd shucked off his jacket and taken out of it a very large handgun with a bell-shaped mouth. He laid the gun down next to the view screen. "In case," he said, unreassuringly. "Now just a moment."
The people seemed to have shucked off the culture of centuries in as many months, and to have gone back for the most part to sheer brutishness. The majority harboured on the bare ground. Few owned shelter, and these were merely bowers of mud and branches. Many who passed my vision I saw were even gnawing the soft inside of tree bark. The dead lay where they fell.
Near by was a thicket of bramble and cane where, out of reach of cattle, bushes of holly thrived: the same fingers would be gathering that. Bordering this woods on one side lay a cornfield. The corn had just been shucked, and beside each shock of fodder lay its heap of ears ready for the gathering wagon.
"Ce'tainly, but if y'u decide that way y'u better step out on the porch and talk it over with us where there ain't ladies present." "Isn't this a costume dance? What's the matter with my guns? I'm an outlaw, ain't I?" "I don't know whether y'u are or not, seh. If y'u say y'u are we're ready to take your word. The guns have to be shucked if y'u stay here.
And once more the tears came into the little girl's eyes. "Well, I'll fix it all right," said Mrs. Bunker. "Don't cry, Rose. Even if her buttons are all shucked off we can sew more on. Don't cry!" So Rose dried her tears and hurried on after her mother out to Grandma Bell's corncrib.
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