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Updated: June 20, 2025
"Jimmy!" cried Billy excitedly. "Bet the captain is going to take us to a lighthouse for the night!" "Can't be your uncle's light, Mark, where we saw the spongers on the way down," commented Chester thoughtfully. "We're too near home for that." "I have an idea " began Hugh slowly. "And so have I!" interrupted Alec, glancing at Mark.
It is not for ten Ajaxes or Achilleses that he prays; no, Troy would have been taken long ago, if he had had in his host ten men like that old sponger. Idomeneus, of Zeus's own kindred, is also represented in the same relation to Agamemnon. Tyc. I know the passages; but I do not feel sure of the sense in which they were spongers. Si. Well, recall the lines in which Agamemnon addresses Idomeneus.
The voice had a cold, incisive note in it the touch of steel to warm flesh. "Impertinence! Your ideas of hospitality, Sam, are peculiar." Any topic was better than the one she feared. "Hospitality!" he retorted hotly. "Do you call it hospitality to squander my money on the cheap spongers you are continually inviting here?
Losing money every time he sold a beast, wasting stamps galore on letters to endless auctioneers, frequently remaining in town half a week at a stretch, and being hail-fellow to all the spongers to be found on the trail of such as he, quickly left him on the verge of bankruptcy. Some of his contemporaries say it was grog that did it all.
We were told one franc each, but after our breakfast, we were told one and a half each, and no talking with the landlord would alter his determination to demand his price. There is no remedy for travellers; they must pay or be delayed. "At one o'clock we left this hole of a place, where we were more beset with beggars and spongers than at any place since we had been in Italy."
The old familiar click announced that he had secured a picture of the three spongers at a time when they stood out plainly. "Hey, you fellers! What yuh mean a-comin' an' stealin' my nephew out o' my boat? He signed for the cruise, he did. It's ag'in the law, what yuh did, an' yer liable ter git yerselves in trouble," the red-bearded man now called. "We can stand it if you can.
Sudden news has come of a hostile invasion; it has to be met; we are not going to sit still while our outlying territory is laid waste; the commander-in-chief issues orders for a general muster of all liable to serve; the troops gather, including philosophers, rhetoricians, and spongers. We had better strip them first, as the proper preliminary to arming.
Near the head of the cove was an old ordnance storehouse, or magazine, which proved upon examination to contain nothing more interesting than a few ancient gun-carriages, a lot of solid six-inch projectiles, an assortment of rammers and spongers for muzzle-loading cannon, and a few wooden boxes of brass-jacketed cartridges for Remington rifles.
There is nothing that a Corean fears so much as that people should speak ill of him, and especially this is the bugbear under which the nobleman of Cho-sen is constantly labouring, and upon which these black-mailers and "spongers" work. High officials, whose heads rest on their shoulders, "hung by a hair," like Damocles' sword, suffer very much at the hands of these marauders.
Wheedlers flattered him for gain: "The watch of a nobleman you carry" and "The ring would buy a field," said those about Sion; "Never seen a more exact fact simily of King George in my life than you," cried spongers in London public-houses.
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