United States or Ukraine ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"Uncle Remus," said the little boy, after a while, "you know I wasn't crying just now." "Dat's so, honey," the old man replied, "but 't wouldn't er bin long 'fo' you would er bin, kaze Mars John bawl out lak a man wa't got a strop in he han', so wa't de diff'unce?" When they had finished eating, Uncle Remus busied himself in cutting and trimming some sole-leather for future use.
"Something like that." "Did you ever hear the like? I never did think much of the Irish." "Then ye'll take my advice and go home? Tell ye what, I'll drive ye to the station." Dickson got up from the bed, found his new safety-razor and began to strop it. "No, I think I'll bide. If you're right there'll be more to see than glaury roads." "I'm warning ye, fair and honest.
Whipping open one of the choice razors, and drawing the strop as if it were a short Roman sword, Sam made the Sheikh wince a little as the sharp blade was made to play to and fro and from end to end, changing from side to side, and with all the dash and light touch of a clever barbel, being finished off by sharp applications to the palm of the operator's hand.
Sometimes, after a long inspection of an epitaph, he would strop his beak upon the grave to which it referred, and cry in his hoarse tones, 'I'm a devil, I'm a devil, I'm a devil! but whether he addressed his observations to any supposed person below, or merely threw them off as a general remark, is matter of uncertainty.
"The old man thinks a rare lot of it. I think I shall have a little bit in that quarter, so keep your eye on the beggar." "Scratch Poll!" said the parrot, giving its bill a preliminary strop on its perch. "Scratch poor Polly!" It bent its head against the bars, and waited patiently to play off what it had always regarded as the most consummate practical joke in existence.
The clear metallic sound of the "strake" or sharpening strop, covered with pure white Loch Skerrow sand set in grease, which scythemen universally use in Galloway, cut through the slumberous hum of the noonday air like the blade itself through the grass.
"No, sir," he said, "I'm glad I made it;" and he proceeded to tell me his errand. It seemed that he had been so pleased with the book, that he "wanted a few more of the same sort," as the razor strop man says; and his father had told him that he might come to me, ask me to get all the Lucy books for him. Now you see how it was with that little fellow, before he read the book I gave him.
"Give him Gadsden's stuff," she whispered to me. "Do you shave yourself, sir?" said I, taking out the Stropine. "Vaseline and ground shells, and will last your life. Rub the size of a pea on your strop and spread it to an inch." I placed the box in Shot-gun's motionless hand. "And now, Gadsden, we'll take the train," said Mrs. Brewton. "Here's your lunch!
The barber had his strop fastened to himself, and not to the chair or a wall, as we see it at home. Great quantities of oats were being brought down from the interior on camels. The sacks were let down on the pavement, and laborers were busy carrying them away.
'Too much crumb, you know, said Mr Bailey; 'too fat, Poll. But there's many worse at her time of life. 'The very owl's a-opening his eyes! thought Poll. 'I don't wonder at it in a bird of his opinions. He happened to have been sharpening his razors, which were lying open in a row, while a huge strop dangled from the wall.
Word Of The Day