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One whisk from the swinged tail of an avalanche would hurl us, like a fly, into the ruin of the gaping gorge. But this season little snow has fallen on the higher hills; and what still lies there, is hard frozen. Therefore we have no fear, as we whirl fast and faster from the snow-fields into the black forests of gnarled cembras and wind-wearied pines.
'Abominable naughty wench, the grizzled man went on. 'How had ye the heart to aid in that grim scene? Knew ye no duty to your elders? Margot closed the skirts round her ankles to keep away the upward draught and answered reasonably: 'Why, Neighbour Ned, my mistress made me go with her to see a heretic swinged.
By Jove, we are proud, sir, to have you among us!" "Perhaps you may not know that my uncle is the Viscount Saint George," said Tracy patronisingly. "Is he, though, by George!" said Henderson yawning. "Is that Saint George who "`Swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horseback at mine hostess' door?"
After this, we sailed by the islands of Nargues and Zargues; also by the islands of Teleniabin and Geleniabin, very fine and fruitful in ingredients for clysters; and then by the islands of Enig and Evig, on whose account formerly the Landgrave of Hesse was swinged off with a vengeance. How Pantagruel met with a great storm at sea.
"I ain't hurt, but I'm swinged like a fool miller moth in a lamp chimley," he complained. "Who was that shootin' around so darned careless?" "Jedlick, dern him!" "It's a wonder he didn't kill somebody upstairs somewhere." "First shot he hit a box of t'backer back of Wood's counter. I don't know what he hit the second time, but it wasn't me." "He hit the side of the store."
"Mistress Philippa! look you here: the Lady Mary left with me this piece of arras, and commanded me to give it unto you to be amended, and beshrew me but I clean forgot. This green is to come forth, and this blue to be set instead thereof, and clean slea-silk for the yellow. Haste, for the holy Virgin's love, or I shall be well swinged when she cometh home!"
He lifted his black eyebrows at sight of them, and rubbed his thin hands with satisfaction. 'Now we shall hear one of Crummock's henchmen swinged, he whispered. He raised a finger for them to lend ear and gazed through the crack of the door. They heard a harsh voice, like a dog's bay, utter clearly: 'Now goodly goodman Doctor, thou hast spoken certain words at Paul's Cross.
The Kingston center-fielder was the next at the bat, and he sent a little Roman candle of a fly that fell cozily into the third baseman's hands. Jumbo now came to the plate, and swinged at the ball so violently that one might have thought he was trying to lift Sawed-Off bodily from first base to second.
One ear was sot back on his neck, 'n' his tail was stove up, 'n' his eye-winkers was swinged off, 'n' he was all blacked up with powder an' smoke, an' all sloppy with mud 'n' slush f'm one end to the other. "Well sir, it warn't no use to try to apologize we couldn't say a word.
To others again he unjointed the spondyles or knuckles of the neck, disfigured their chaps, gashed their faces, made their cheeks hang flapping on their chin, and so swinged and balammed them that they fell down before him like hay before a mower.
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