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After luncheon we fished for an hour or two with no result worth recording, and then we started for home. A couple of partridges ran across the road some distance ahead of us, and these gave Peter an idea. "Do you know," said he, "if things go on as they're goin' on now, that there'll come a time when it won't be considered high-toned sport to shoot a bird slam-bang dead.
Have you got something slam-bang for me? Is the Governor coming here? Couldn't you raise any dinner?" Carrie's questions came out so fast that her mother never could have answered them, even with the breath of a Corliss engine; much less, panting as she was now. "Yes, I saw him; I managed to see him," she gasped out. "The guns were firing, the cannon were booming, the bells were ringing " "Oh!
In this manner the reading-club continued in peace, absorbed, contented, the world well forgot until a sudden, violently irritated slam-bang of the front door startled the members; and Mrs. Schofield burst into the room and threw herself into a chair, moaning. "What's the matter, mamma?" asked her husband laying aside his paper.
Killigrew, when the laughter had subsided. "You oughtn't object to a good shindy, Molly," slyly observed her husband. "You'll never forgive me that black eye." "I'll never forgive the country you got it in," grimly. "But what's the harm in a good scrap between two husky fellows, trained to a hair to slam-bang each other?" "It isn't refined, dad," said Kitty.
Perk seemed to be hanging on with the tenacity of a bulldog, for not another peep did the wolfish man, whose throat he squeezed, give vent to as the slam-bang fight continued.
I took that money Pennington gave me for my Squaw Creek timber and put it back into redwood in Township Nine, slam-bang up against your holdings there. John, I'd build a mill on tidewater if you'd sell me a site, and I'd log my timber if " "I'll sell you a mill-site, Bill, and I won't stab you to the heart, either. Consider that settled."
He went out to sea in a ship and sailed for three months, and when he least expected it ran slam-bang up against the Western Hemisphere. It was like shooting at a barn door with a Gatling gun. He was bound to hit it sooner or later." "You don't give him any credit for tenacity of purpose or good judgment, then?" asked Mr. Brief. "Of course I do. Plenty of it.
Robert Knox, of England, somewhat known as an ethnological lecturer and author, a thinker in a sort, though of the "slam-bang" school, of far more force than faculty, and of a singular avidity for ugly news, dogmatically proclaims that all Americans are undergoing a physical degeneration, involving, as he thinks, an equal lapse of mental power, proceeding with swift fated steps, and sure ere long to land them in sheer impotence and imbecility; and he appeals to the common loss of adipose tissue and avoirdupois as proof.
"If it had been sung by itself, it would have been uncommon sweet, I don't deny it; but what they wanted to mix it up with 'Old Bob Ridley' for, I can't make out. Why, they don't go together, at all. They are not of the same nature. 'Bob Ridley' is a common rackety slam-bang secular song, one of the rippingest and rantingest and noisiest there is.
He folded the paper, replaced it in his pocketbook, which he slipped back in his inside coat pocket; then resumed his story: "We were returning to Winchester when we almost ran slam-bang into some of Mosby's guerillas. To avoid them, we had to go miles out of our way.
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