Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 2, 2025
His father had always scoffed at tramps and beggars. "They are spongers," he had often said, "and people cannot afford to have such useless people around." That word "sponger" as it came to Dan caused him to straighten himself up and step forward more quickly. He was not a sponger now. His face flushed at Farrington's insult.
"Maybe," I assented. "I don't pretend to love him, but " "If you don't mind," interrupted Charlie, "we'll let it go at 'but' ". And he rose. "The tide's beginning to run out. Send me word where you are, as soon as you get a chance; and good luck to you, old chap, and your doubloons and pieces of eight!" Then we walked down to his row-boat, and soon he was aboard the sponger.
The lad started at these words, and but for the darkness a flush would have been seen upon his face. "What does the parson mean?" he thought. "That was about what Farrington said. To get, and give nothing in return; to be a sucker and a sponger." But the parson needed no reply. He did not even notice Dan's silence. "Yes," he continued; "it's a mean thing.
"Why, I can see the bottom just as plain as looking through a window." "To be sure," said the old sponger; "an' that's the way we sees the sponges lying on the bottom. An' when we sees 'em we takes those long-handled rakes there an' hauls 'em up to the top. When they fust comes up they's plumb black, and about the nastiest things you ever did see, I reckon.
The parrot replaced the rammer by the side of the sponger, and waited for further orders, standing erect close to the rear of the gun. The trainer poured a pinch of priming powder upon the touch-hole, and lighted a small port-fire; this he gave to the parrot, which received it in its beak at a right angle, and then stood by its gun, waiting for the word.
"Instead of consulting people of experience ps, ps, ps first sponger that comes along. Have you seen the horses that Bois l'Hery has persuaded him to buy? Absolute rubbish those animals. And he paid twenty thousand francs for them. We may wager that Bois l'Hery got them for six thousand."
Then I got tired, and left the sponger with the captain and two or three men, while I went up the river with a couple of guns and Sailor, and a man to pole the skiff just for some duck-shooting, you know. We lay low, for two days, on the marshes, and then Sailor got sniffing the wind one morning, as if there was something around he didn't care much for.
Streeter, you don't know how grateful I am to you for all you are doing for me. The money is the least part of it and I can fix that all right. You wouldn't think I was a capitalist to look at me, would you?" said Dick, laughingly. "Since I left home I've rolled up quite a fortune as a fireman and a sponger and I can pay my little bills and have money to burn besides.
The rammer and sponger lay by the side of the small field-piece.
The Dragoons had the reputation of being scamps, a scapegrace crowd, witness the song: "Mama, here the dragoons come, Let us haste away." But you might have searched in vain through His Majesty's two regiments of Dragoons for a bigger rake, a more accomplished sponger, or a viler rogue than Cosme de Lespoisset. Compared with him, his brother was an honest lad.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking