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Updated: June 10, 2025
And drinking off the tumbler of tea which Mrs. Petty was holding to his lips, he sank almost immediately into a deep slumber. The old lady, whose name was Sinkin, and whose interest in Mr. Lavender had become so deep, lived in a castle in Frognal; and with her lived her young nephew, a boy of forty-five, indissolubly connected with the Board of Guardians.
You ask Dad if a tum-jack don't keep a horse from sinkin'! Say " sticking forward his face in a whisper "Senator oughtn't to sink eh?"
As they came near, the smell o' fire an' sulphur met them. A hush, like death, seemed to hang over her. The colored boatmen quit rowin', but the harbor-master forced them on. Her ladder was still down. The harbor-master climbed aboard. "On deck, nothin' moved. The harbor-master stepped down into grey ashes, sinkin' above his knee. With a scream he drew back.
"Awh, mother," cried Joan, "whatever can be the manin' of it? My poor heart's a sinkin' down lower than iver. Oh Lord! if they should ha' cotched un, anyways!" "Now, doan't 'ee take on like that, Joan," said Mrs. Tucker. "'Tis like temptin' o' Providence to do such like.
What they needed was the justice of the law to tackle the injustice; and they hadn't got it, and couldn't get holt of it: so they had to set with hands folded, or lifted to the heavens in wild appeal, either way didn't help Paul any, and see him a sinkin' and a sinkin', slippin' further and further down; and they had to let him go.
"Give not that which is holy, the best nater, and goodness of boys and men to the dogs, the brutes that lay in wait for 'em in whiskey laws. The God in man is murdered every 'lection day by professors of religion and ministers." "Why whyee," sez Elder Wessel, sinkin' back in his chair.
If it's wet in the road, you can bank on sinkin' in to the hocks the minute you turn out." He carefully removed the mud pancakes from his shoes by scraping them across the hub of the stalled car and edged back to stand with his arms on his hips while he surveyed the full plight of them. "She sure is bogged down a-plenty," he observed, grinning sympathetically.
Blee felt a leaden weight about his newly polished boots, and a distinct flutter at the heart, or in a less poetical portion of his frame. "Same auld feeling," he reflected. "Gormed if I ban't gettin' sweaty 'fore the plaace comes in sight! 'Tis just the sinkin' at the navel, like what I had when I smoked my first pipe, five-and-forty years agone!"
"Suspect what?" growled Spofford. "That there must be some abnormal cause for so abnormal a proceeding. Think, now, Algy." "I've heard of rats leavin' a sinkin' ship. The building might have been sinkin'," suggested the visitor hopefully. "Is that the best you can do? I'll give you one more try." "I know," said Spofford. "A cat."
I dunno whether he did have another or not, but one night, he seemed to be sort o' sinkin' away. Lyddy Ann she begun to turn white, an' she set down by him an' rubbed his sick hand. He looked at her, fust time he had, fair an' square, an' then he begun to wobble his lips round an' make a queer noise with 'em.
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