United States or Bouvet Island ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
All thets left of my farm is on this ere boat an' I don't reckon its goin' to cost me much trouble to take care of it an' locate anywhare outside of this country. This ere cantankerous river has done me up, done me up brown, straanger." "It is a curious sort of river." "Cur'ous! Wall, I should snicker, Cur'ous ain't no name for it.
Not by one, Sir, but by a great many; this was a Cheesemonger they fell out over a Bottle of Brandy, went to Snicker Snee; Mr. Bellmour cut his Throat, and was hang'd for't, that's all, Sir. Bel. And did the young Lady believe this? Ral. Ralph. Bel. So, here's a hopeful Account of my sweet self now. Enter Post-man with Letters. Post. Pray, Sir, which is Sir Feeble Fainwou'd's? Bel.
"What's wrong with you, you young you?" began the captain. The snicker died slowly from Nipper's lips, and in his face dawned an infinite, surprised respect.... Then, after he had subdued us: "So you're stowaways, eh?... and you think you're going to be given a free ride to Brisbane and let go ashore, scot free?... not much!
"The folks up in the Jo Quacca Mountains will snicker in good shape when I tell 'em that Fightin' MacCracken let himself be dumped out of Duke Thornton's dooryard by a pack of lard-eating Quedaws," he sneered in the giant's ear. MacCracken swept away the first three men with swinging cuffs. He was thinking of his reputation at home. The taunt pricked him.
"Why, hello, have you arrived at last?" cried a voice from out of the darkness, and then Laura and Flossie appeared, standing by the gate. The three cadets looked glumly at each other, and then Pepper commenced to snicker and all burst into a hearty spell of laughter. "Don't you admire our very fashionable turnout?" questioned Pepper, as he came forward and shook hands with the girls.
But the Frenchman, he never laughs at us; that would his culture forbid. And, if he smile, his mouth goes placid before the siege. His attitude is the attitude of one beholding a Comstock come to the hill of Hörselberg in Thuringia, there to sniff and snicker in Venus's crimson court.
Then he began to snicker like a chump, and first thing he knew he was hanging over one of Tommy's bargain bedsteads just laughing, laughing, laughing, though it was more like crying too. The Scotchman started next, and every time he laughed he rolled into something until he fell on the floor and just lay there laughing. "I suppose we'd be laughing yet or else dead of it, only Tommy came in.
It is a curious conglomeration, and the result is very pitiful and disastrous. Bernardine and the prison scenes are retained. Measure for Measure was again profanely altered by Gildon in 1700, mutilated and helped out by 'entertainments of music'. p. 197 Snicker Snee. See note Vol. p. 198 Spittal Sermon. Mary Spital, founded 1197.
"I am always saddest at dinner, for I know that I have been asked because there is a tradition in society that I am a wit. If I speak of the gloomiest subjects people snicker; if I am eloquent or pathetic, they roar. I am by nature rather a lyric poet than a wit ah, you are laughing, Mrs. Carey, you are laughing. What did I tell you?" "But, my dear Mr. Sydney, you are funny, really you are."
The man with the mallet raised his right hand and said glibly, "You do most solemnly swear that what you are about to give before the court " He abruptly stopped and glowered at the man before him. "Take off your hat!" he roared, and a snicker went up from the crowd as the man obeyed. Then he of the mallet began again.
Word Of The Day