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The shrieks of the miserable beings excited no compassion; on the contrary, it afforded amusement to their executioners: so that games of skittles upon the same principle were played the whole length of this meadow.
As, for instance, on the occasion just referred to, shortly after Dave had gone on a visit to the tenant of the belted Earl, Uncle Mo having gone away for an hour, to spend it in the parlour of The Rising Sun, a truly respectable house where there were Skittles, and Knurr and Spell. He might, you see, be more than an hour: there was no saying for certain.
Only one room high they were, and not placed opposite each other, but in and out as skittles are; only that the first of all, which proved to be the captain's, was a sort of double house, or rather two houses joined together by a plank-bridge, over the river. Fourteen cots my mother counted, all very much of a pattern, and nothing to choose between them, unless it were the captain's.
But we have had a good time out here. Do you really think farming is all beer and skittles?" "It has been smooth sailing for me thus far, and I believe it is simply a business with the usual ups and downs; but I mean to make the ups the feature in this case." "Are you really glad to get back to it? Didn't you want to stay longer?"
He meddled with no other person's business; but he was a silent man, and by no means popular. He was reserved in company; and he used to walk alone by the shore of the lake, while other fellows played at fives or skittles; and when he visited the kitchen of the George, he had his liquor to himself, and in the midst of the general talk was a saturnine listener.
There are plenty of malicious spirits about still, and now that an heir is coming to Rush they are keener than ever to try and work some mischief. He will only laugh, and say it is all skittles. But tell my little sister-in-law to PRAY PRAY PRAY. That is all they need and all she needs either." Now this was not exactly the message one cared to send to a rather recent acquaintance.
He seemed determined that Bertie should be on easy terms with him, and he was in a great measure successful. Though reticent, Bertie was undoubtedly cordial. At the appearance of dessert Nap rose. "I must be getting back to Lucas," he said. "Oh, skittles! He won't be wanting you," Bertie protested. "Sit down again, man. You haven't been here an hour." But Nap was not to be persuaded.
It certainly was a fact that no one ever saw the landlord of the Auer, and that the landlady's two smart boys, who helped so cheerfully in picking up the skittles, bore a striking resemblance to the major. It was in the courtyard of the Auer tavern, when, after one of these excursions of Major Schrader's, they were getting their bicycles out of the shed, that Landsberg's rancour broke out.
No legal document could be treated in this way; and in like manner the Bible is one great whole, or else it is just "skittles."
They took a studio apartment and set up their crafts jointly. If either had had the real stuff of the artist, it might have gone well; but two idle and rather uninformed persons in the same studio produce disaster. Munich soon became an affair of beer, skittles, and music in company with the more careless spirits that gathered there that winter. Among them happened to be Sadie Paul.
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