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Updated: May 21, 2025
A boy was lowered in the bucket, and soon announced by a joyful cry that he had gotten the bills. Upon being brought up and examined they were found to be uninjured, ex cept by a slight singeing at the edges. "Providence's agin managin' things," murmured Shorty gratefully; "but the Deacon's gumption helped out."
He who succeeds in leaping over the fire without singeing himself will be married within the year. At Vidovec in Croatia parties of two girls and one lad unite to kindle a Midsummer bonfire and to leap through the flames; he or she who leaps furthest will soonest wed.
Then there was a strange hissing sound in my ears, a bright light flashed across my eyes; a burning object passed over my face, scorching the skin; there was a smell as of singeing hair; I could hear voices, mixed with the roars of my adversary; and all at once the claws were drawn out of my flesh, the weight was lifted from my breast, and I was alone!
Somehow, his hats were never either old or new not that he bought them second-hand, but when he got a new one he took its 'long-coat' off, as he called it, with a singeing lamp, and made it look as if it had undergone a few probationary showers.
Nathan Hornby was to learn that legislative assemblies were death-traps to those whom providence had failed to coach in diplomacy and judgment, that legislation was a game at which none but gamesters might successfully play, a devouring flame singeing the wings of all who failed to distinguish between the light of a common candle and that of a real sun, that it was a nightmare to most, and ticklish business for all.
I will choose the best of all the ships in Ithaca for thee, and have her launched, and manned by a crew, all of them willing men." Then Telemachus returned to the palace. In the courtyard the wooers were slaying goats and singeing swine and making ready a great feast. "Here comes Telemachus, who is planning to destroy us," they mocked. "Telemachus, who speaks so proudly angry Telemachus."
Strangely enough, he was not burned at all. In this he had escaped better than Keller, whose hair and eyebrows and skin were all the worse for singeing. The nester noticed that Phyllis, in handing a bowl of water to Bess, used awkwardly her left hand. The right one, he observed, was held with the palm concealed against the folds of her skirt.
I was sure the first shot was fatal, for I knew just where his heart would be, but I dropped a second cartridge in, and gave him another bullet so as to make sure. Well, if either of you want his head or his claws, you had better say so at once, for the natives will be singeing his whiskers off directly; the practice is a superstition of theirs." "No, I don't want them," Wilson said.
Go, therefore, and talk with the suitors as before, and get ready food for a journey, wine and meal. And I will gather men who will offer themselves freely for the journey, and I will find a ship also, the best in Ithaca." Then Telemachus returned to the house, and the suitors were flaying goats and singeing swine in the court.
He had finished this process, and, suspending it by one wing in an attitude of patient suffering, was singeing it with a blazing paper, when Melissa appeared. "What you want, gell?" he demanded autocratically, noticing that she carried no pail. "Where is the young man, the tall one?" asked Melissa. "Young man? Mist' Stellin'? He take 'im gun an' go catchee labbit."
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