United States or Tokelau ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Poh?" exclaimed Basset, affecting a courage he was far from feeling, "you're skeary, Prime. So, in your judgment, it's safer to go by night, is it?" "My 'pinion is made up on all de pints," said Primus, resolutely, and bringing all his batteries to bear. "Dis case hab two hinge, de fust is de 'spectability, and de second de safety.
Well, it was a skeary thing to the young creaturs, said Natty, while he retrod the path toward the plain. It might frighten an older woman, to see a she-painter so near her, with a dead cub by its side.
But first of all we will give them a feed of corn. You see they are skeary of us at present. Indian horses are always afraid of white men at first, just as white men's horses are afraid of Indians. A feed of corn will go a long way towards making us good friends, for you may be sure they have never had a feed in their lives beyond what they could pick up for themselves."
Edson, was, to use his own words, "mighty skeary of Northern folks," and as soon as he became convinced that the stranger was from that way, he got up, thinking to himself, "Some confounded Abolitionist, I’ll warrant. The sooner I go home and get my gang together, the better ’twill be."
"'Tis fancy, Mabel; when the mind gets to be skeary, especially a woman's mind, she often concaits things that have no reality. I've known them that imagined there was truth in dreams." "Nay, I am not deceived; there is surely one below, and in pain." Pathfinder was compelled to own that the quick senses of Mabel had not deceived her.
It's true, Mabel seemed to be consenting, though it all came from a wish to please her father, and from being skeary about the savages " "Pathfinder!" "I understand you, Mabel, and have no hard feelings, I haven't.
Your uncle is still on the roof; and, as for myself, I've run the gauntlet of too many rifles to be skeary about such a thing as a howitzer, and that in Indian hands." Mabel murmured her thanks, and tried to give all her attention to her father, whose efforts to rise were only counteracted by his debility.
Brave, because a skeary comrade in the woods," suffering his eyes inadvertently to rest a moment on the person of the abstracted naturalist, "is apt to make a short path long; and honest, inasmuch as craftiness is rather an instinct of the brutes, than a gift becoming the reason of a human man." "But the object, that you saw was it a Sioux?"
Johnson was packing up with all haste and was going to leave, and so I said I would take my canoe and come down the lake, giving you all warning on the way. I stopped at Burns' and Hooper's. Burns said he should clear out at once, but Hooper talked about seeing it through. He's got no wife to be skeary about, and reckoned that, with his two hands, he could defend his log hut.
Wilmot declined, saying he was not much accustomed to horses; he preferred that Mr. Middleton should choose any horse he pleased. "Very well," said Mr. Middleton; "from the accounts I have heard of your horsemanship it may be improved; so I reckon I’ll not give you a very skeary horse to begin with. Thar’s Aleck’ll just suit you.
Word Of The Day