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If I had but Sam Smatch and his fiddle, I'll warrant people would say which was the right and which was the wrong way pretty quickly."
Also, in their knowledge, their learning, their skill in the sciences; they have globes and spheres, and a smatch of the knowledge of the mathematics; but when you come to inquire into their knowledge, how short-sighted are the wisest of their students!
True Blue had not danced a hornpipe for many a long year, it would not have been dignified while he was a boatswain, but he had not forgotten how to do so. That he very soon showed, to the satisfaction of all present, especially to that of Mary, and not a little to that of Sam Smatch, who, in defiance of all the rules of etiquette, kept shouting, "Bravo, Billy well done, Billy keep at it, boy!
These were drafted from several ships, and, to the no small satisfaction of Paul Pringle, he with Abel Bush, Peter Ogle, and Tom Snell were taken from the Fame. As the Fame had already a fiddler, and the Hector had none, they got leave for Sam Smatch to accompany them. Paul was anxious to let Billy live a little more on shore than he had hitherto done.
True Blue pricked up his ears, and then, running to the piano, exclaimed, "You play it very well indeed, Miss Julia that you do; but I wish that you could just hear Sam Smatch with his fiddle he'd take the shine out of you, I think you'd say.
We can call him no great author, yet he writes very much and with the infamy of the court is maintained in his libels . He has some smatch of a scholar, and yet uses Latin very hardly; and lest it should accuse him, cuts it off in the midst, and will not let it speak out.
The monarch was to see bright raiment, flowers, pageantry, smiling faces only; to hear only the voices of singing men and singing women; no smatch of the abounding wormwood of life was to touch his lip, no glimpse of its we to disturb his serenity. The master of an empire spreading from India to Ethiopia was not to be annoyed by a passing shadow of mortality.
'Yours I know already, and round-head as you are, you have some smatch of honour in you. With an air of condescension he held out his hand, which his adversary, oppressed with a sense of the injury he had done him, did not refuse. Richard hurried home, and to the stable, where he saddled his mare.
He was no other than Sam Smatch, who had, ever since the last war, followed the fortunes of Paul Pringle and his old shipmates. The whole party were now grouped together before the placard, with Billy True Blue in the centre.
Nor, in returning thanks, should it cause us trouble that our best thanks are poor, or even that they are mingled with an alloy of earthly regards, "mere man's motives " Alas, Friend, what was free from this alloy, Some smatch thereof, in best and purest love Preferred thy earthly father? Dust thou art, Dust shall be to the end.
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