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Some of them wish to convert her but I have undertaken to divert her, which she will like better. You must help me to plunge her headlong into all sorts of skylarking jollity." "We will plunge her into anything you please." "She shall dance like sixty!" said Rose-Pompon, humming a popular tune. "She will overawe the police."
"Just the same, many's the time she's told me if she could land a regular fellow and do the regular thing and settle down on seventy-five a month in a Harlem flat, why she'd drop all this skylarking of hers for a family of youngsters, so quick it would make your head swim." "Sure, that's just what I say, she "
'How long will they be? Starlight said. 'Just remember that you're not skylarking at a pound-yard, my boy. 'All right, Captain, he answered, quiet enough. 'I started on ahead the moment I saw 'em leave the camp. They're safe to be here in ten minutes now. You can see 'em when they come into the flat. I'll clear out to the back for a bit.
The rebels played and sang, and there was a little skylarking amongst the younger men; but Done and his companions, wearied by their long tramp and the drilling, had spread their blankets on the ground, and made themselves as comfortable as possible, Jim watching the antics of the rebels through half-closed eyes, the others smoking thoughtfully. 'Well, ole man, what d'yer think of it? said Josh.
A constant carousal, therefore, was kept up, and drinking, singing, dancing, and "skylarking" were practised from morning to night. You may be surprised to know that a ship so evidently fitted out for slave-traffic could have thus openly and directly sailed out of a British port.
It is not so uncommon as you think. But its exercise is rather dangerous, and I hope she is well instructed." "How?" I asked. "Oh," Mrs. Besant replied, "it is all right if she knows what she is about, but it is just as dangerous to go waltzing about on the astral plane as it is for a girl to go skylarking down a dark slum when roughs are about.
"Why, do ye see, the old man is hard bent after that White Whale, and the devil there is trying to come round him, and get him to swap away his silver watch, or his soul, or something of that sort, and then he'll surrender Moby Dick." "Pooh! Stubb, you are skylarking; how can Fedallah do that?" "I don't know, Flask, but the devil is a curious chap, and a wicked one, I tell ye.
Bringing water from the town pump had always been hateful work in Tom's eyes, before, but now it did not strike him so. He remembered that there was company at the pump. White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking.
Probably they hope to start a big row among us that way." "We'll await Weir's advice." "Well, I've waited all I'm going to to-night. Seems to me for a steady, quiet, self-respecting, dignified, unhooked, unmarried, unmortgaged, unromantic man he's skylarking and gallivanting around pretty late."
'This is not the place to preach the theory of direct inspiration, said the Nilghai, returning Torpenhow's large and workmanlike bellows to their nail on the wall. 'We believe in cobblers' wax. La! where you sit down. 'If you weren't so big and fat, said Dick, looking round for a weapon, 'I'd 'No skylarking in my rooms. You two smashed half my furniture last time you threw the cushions about.
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