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I hope something heavier than shame will light upon him for it soon. The American officers have sworn never again to give quarter to the British or tories." Marion. God forbid that my countrymen should have taken such an oath as that! Snipes. Why, general Marion, would you have the enemy go on at this rate, and we take no revenge? M. Revenge?
'Hush, pray pink eyes fancy dress little boy nonsense ensign 97th Honourable Wilmot Snipe great family Snipes very. 'Sir Thomas Clubber, Lady Clubber, and the Misses Clubber! shouted the man at the door in a stentorian voice.
"Not by a damned sight," replied Snipes, fingering the butt of his revolver nervously. "Then, by God," replied Tarrant, "if you won't take a shovel you'll take a pickax." With the words he raised his pick above his head, and, with a mighty blow, he buried the point in Snipes' brain. For a moment the men stood silently looking at the result of their fellow's grim humor. Then one of them spoke.
But for all that, when he came back, there he had a whole string of young snipes in his hand which he had shot. 'Oh, oh! said the Snipe, 'why did you shoot my children after all? 'What! these your children! said the Sportsman; 'why, I shot the ugliest I could find, that I did! 'Woe is me! said the Snipe; 'don't you know that each one thinks his own children the prettiest in the world?
But captain Snipes had no turn for investigations of this sort. Knowledge, by intuition, was all that he cared for; and having it, by instinct, that an "Englishman ought never to fight against liberty," nor an "American against his own country," he looked on them, to use his own phrase, as a "pack of d n-d rascals, whom it was doing God service to kill wherever he could find them."
Man of many snipes, I will sup with thee, Deo volente ei diabolo nolente, on Monday night the 5th of January, in the new year, and crush a cup to the infant century. A word or two of my progress. Embark at six o'clock in the morning, with a fresh gale, on a Cambridge one-decker; very cold till eight at night; land at St.
"Served the skunk jolly well right," he said. One of the others commenced to ply his pick to the ground. The soil was soft and he threw aside the pick and grasped a shovel; then the others joined him. There was no further comment on the killing, but the men worked in a better frame of mind than they had since Snipes had assumed command.
For Mary adored him; the rest of the village disliked and distrusted him; but she, with a strange perversity, loved him as it seldom falls to the lot of man to be loved with her whole heart and soul. "I have brought you some snipes, Mr. Thornton," said he, in his most musical tones.
The opposition show itself we wouldn't have minded, but the colored printing, streamers, and snipes that adorned the fences, barns and hen houses almost paralyzed us. "In sheer desperation we brought the tent ashore and prepared to tackle fate and the opposition, and trust to luck. We put out no bills, and got ready to make much big noise of the proper kind when the opportune moment arrived.
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