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Updated: June 22, 2025
A drizzling rain had set in at twilight, and, growing bolder with the darkness, was beating a dismal tattoo on the tent the tent of Mess 6, Company A, th Regiment, N. Y. Volunteers. Our mess, consisting originally of eight men, was reduced to four.
Ten minutes later she emerged in the limp and clinging little frock that toned down her colour and made her plumpness seem but rounded charm. The big store will talk for many a day of that afternoon and the three afternoons that followed, until Sunday brought pause to the thousands of feet beating a ceaseless tattoo up and down the thronged aisles.
Clancy wore bright green trunks, which if his name had failed would have betrayed his lineage, and his great chest and arms were covered with designs in tattoo. Jerry wore dark trunks. And as his wonderful arms and torso were exposed to view, a murmur of approval went over the audience.
But since the journey of Carl Semper it has been known that not only Malays but also Negritos tattoo; indeed, this admirable explorer has decided that the "Negroes of the East Coast" practice a different method of tattooing from that of the Mariveles in the west, and on that account they attain different results.
He could not have helped Park, and he could very easily have drowned himself. Though it was not thought of himself but of Mona that stayed his hand. They landed at the gate. Sunfish scrambled with his feet for secure footing, found it and waded up to the front door. The water was a foot deep on the porch. Thurston beat an imperative tattoo upon the door with the butt of his quirt, and shouted.
And at the same instant from just above her head there beat upon the air a violent, joyous tattoo a sound that was neither of the sea nor of the woods, a creaking, swiftly repeated sound, like the flutter of caged wings. Helen turned in alarm and raised her eyes and beheld the sailorman.
'Ye hae come rather early, my good lad, said he, descending; 'I question if the red-coats hae beat the tattoo yet, and we're not safe till then. 'Good news cannot be told too soon, said Waverley; and with infinite joy communicated to him the happy tidings. The old man stood for a moment in silent devotion, then exclaimed, 'Praise be to God! I shall see my bairn again.
Before Pericles, came the Seven Wise Masters; and we have the beginnings of geometry, metaphysics, and ethics: then the partialists, deducing the origin of things from flux or water, or from air, or from fire, or from mind. All mix with these causes mythologic pictures. At last, comes Plato, the distributor, who needs no barbaric paint, or tattoo, or whooping; for he can define.
She never once turned her head towards the mob who insulted her. She waited in complete passiveness until the yelling and shouting had subsided, motionless save for her finger-tips, which beat an impatient tattoo upon the railing in front of her. The Bulletin says that she took out her handkerchief and wiped her face with it. Elle s'essuya le front qui fut perle de sueur.
A chat over the events of the day, and the prospect of the morrow, the wonderful merits of each man's horse, and the disgusting irregularities of the mails from home, lasted until the silver-voiced bugle rang out the sweet, mournful tattoo of the Regulations, to the flowing cadences of which the boys had arranged the absurdly incongruous words: "S-a-y D-e-u-t-c-h-e-r-will-you fight-mit Sigel!
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