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On the other hand, plain Dutch sea-captains, grim beggars of the sea, and the like, denizens of a free commonwealth and of the boundless ocean-men who are at home on blue water, and who have burned gunpowder against those prodigious slave-rowed galleys of Spain together with their new allies, the dauntless mariners of England who at this very moment are "singeing the King of Spain's beard," as it had never been singed before are not so much awestruck with the famous preparations for invasion as was perhaps to be expected.
This observation came from the very bottom of his soul, and at once gave me an idea of the magnitude of the disappointment he had sustained; the fact was, upon leaving the camp in the morning he had taken a firestick in his hand, and gone straight back to where we skinned the kangaroo on the 21st, with the intention of singeing off the hair and eating the skin, which had been left hanging over a bush.
The roads were fine, the sheets of water beautiful, the bridges handsome, the swans elegant in their deportment, the grass green and as short as a fast horse's winter coat. I could not learn whether it was kept so by clipping or singeing. I was delighted with my new property, but it cost me four dollars to get there, so far was it beyond the Pillars of Hercules of the fashionable quarter.
On the other hand, plain Dutch sea-captains, grim beggars of the sea, and the like, denizens of a free commonwealth and of the boundless ocean-men who are at home on blue water, and who have burned gunpowder against those prodigious slave-rowed galleys of Spain together with their new allies, the dauntless mariners of England who at this very moment are "singeing the King of Spain's beard," as it had never been singed before are not so much awestruck with the famous preparations for invasion as was perhaps to be expected.
Beneath the snug characteristics of the latter-day student his sweet abhorrence of a rag, his nasty delight in plays which he calls 'hot-stuff, his cigarettes and his chess-playing beneath these my head, like Henley's, is bloody but unbowed. Forgive a tear." The shower ceased; the tea was finished; the pretty waitress was coyly singeing her modesty in the attractive candle of Mr.
He commenced by eating a pound and a half of horse-flesh, and a little bread, he then ate the entrails, paunch, liver, lights, tail, and two hind legs of the young kangaroo, next followed a penguin, that he had found dead upon the beach, upon this he forced down the whole of the hide of the kangaroo after singeing the hair off, and wound up this meal by swallowing the tough skin of the penguin; he then made a little fire, and laid down to sleep, and dream of the pleasures of eating, nor do I think he was ever happier in his life than at that moment.
Since the introduction of the process of gas-singeing in finishing textiles, many improvements have been made in the construction of the machines for this purpose as well as in that of the burners, for the object of the latter must be to effect the singeing not only evenly and thoroughly, but at the same time with a complete combustion of the gas and avoidance of sooty deposits upon the cloth.
The natives of many parts of Australia when at a funeral cut off portions of their beards, and, singeing these, throw them upon the dead body; in some instances they cut off the beard of the corpse, and, burning it, rub themselves and the body with the singed portions of it.
"Next day a fat turkey had to be killed and plucked, and I had an old newspaper to burn for singeing the feathers.
'Why cant a wrong-doer have a hell of his own, and be saved from singeing innocent people? The smoke of my torment ascendeth, and even George goes coughing at the smell of brimstone. George would be much more comfortable if I had been virtuous Madge would have more to lend him. 'Now, if I had a bottle of whisky here, I'd put an end to this for an hour or two.
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