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"In the shack yonder, if your stomach's copper-lined. Better come over to my camp and take pot-luck there." Which Loring gladly did, and then went on his dusty way, leaving Blake with something to think of beside his own woes.
'Give an account of yourself, said the Head of the Grooms, to Little Tobrah after the meal had been eaten, and the servants lay at ease in their quarters behind the house. 'You are not of the groom caste, unless it be for the stomach's sake. How came you into the court, and why? Answer, little devil's spawn! 'There was not enough to eat, said Little Tobrah calmly. 'This is a good place.
Look at him as he stands there before the foul, reeking, sloppy bar, with the glass in his hand, which he has just emptied. See the grimace with which he puts it down, as though the dram had been almost too unpalatable. It is the last touch of hypocrisy with which he attempts to cover the offence; as though he were to say, "I do it for my stomach's sake; but you know how I abhor it."
The Abbot opened the conversation by motioning to his monk to take a stool, and inviting to a cup of wine. The courtesy was declined with respect, yet not without a remark, that the vesper service was past. "For the stomach's sake, brother," said the Abbot, colouring a little "You know the text." "It is a dangerous one," answered the monk, "to handle alone, or at late hours.
Paul's concession of a little wine for the stomach's sake for license to become sots.
It isn't the money I care for. There'll be mighty changes, be sure of that; but here I'll stay, and make people happy them that go by on the roads. It's a pleasant place here when people are merry; it's only when they're jealous, or mean, or tired, or eat up beyond any stomach's digesting, or when they got the drink in 'em that Satan comes into this garden.
My mind knows you won't, but my stomach's a lot less certain. And, sir I've never even heard of a junior officer being granted a private audience!" That was all until the shuttlecar pulled up before a door that was flanked by a pair of Palace Guards. As Hovan climbed out, the young Marine said, "Lieutenant Hovan, to see His Majesty."
"Now, don't you be uneasy about your sister Dahly." Old Anthony, as he spoke, fixed his small brown eyes on the girl, and seemed immediately to have departed far away in speculation. A question recalled him. "Is her health good?" "Ay; stomach's good, head's good, lungs, brain, what not, all good. She's a bit giddy, that's all." "In her head?" "Ay; and on her pins. Never you mind.
Why, I'll lay thee a wager, child, thy stomach's too full to eat, and so thou may'st fast till thy mannerly master comes home. Pray your ladyship, said her woman, let the poor girl sit down at table with Mrs. Jewkes and me. Said I, You are very kind, Mrs.
Three hours later he drove in before the stopping-house, and, hitching his team to the tree, left them a little hay to while the time. The "resteraw" was empty. Other breakfast guests had come and gone. "Oh, Bela!" he cried. She stuck her head in the other door. Her expression was severely non-committal. "Bela, my stomach's as empty as a stocking on the floor! I feel like a drawn chicken.
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