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He would like the right to have all intruders thrashed by the gillies within an inch of their lives; and he would have had a clause in his lease against the making of any new roads, opening of footpaths, or building of bridges. He had seen somewhere in print a plan for running a railway from Callender to Fort Augustus right through Crummie-Toddie!
If you was not a parson, I would not take these words; but your gown protects you. If any man who wears a sword had said so much, I had pulled him by the nose before this." Adams replied, "If he attempted any rudeness to his person, he would not find any protection for himself in his gown;" and, clenching his fist, declared "he had thrashed many a stouter man."
Amongst other instances of their laziness, I have heard him say that, upon the introduction of the mode of dressing the grain at night which had been thrashed during the day, all the servants in the neighbourhood refused to adopt the measure, and even threatened to destroy the houses of their employers by fire if they continued to insist upon the business.
"Now, over with it," said Donald, as he put the helm down. The huge mainsail fluttered and thrashed for an instant, and then flew over. Kennedy, who had been careful to catch a turn in the rope, held fast when the sail "fetched up" on the other tack, and then the yacht rolled her rail under on the port side. "Let off the sheet, lively!" cried Donald.
At last I thrashed soundly one Master Galloway, who called me a horse-cobbler, and after that no more trouble. I became strong and muscular as the work went on, and got to like our master, who was all for liberty, and sang as he struck, and taught me much that was useful as to the management of horses, so that I was not long unhappy.
"Well, you can always have the satisfaction of knowing that as your interest in Jim diminishes, so his will increase George Harcourt and I thrashed it all out the other day and you yourself admitted it, when we dined. To keep the hunting instinct alive is the thing You will have the fondest lover when you go back to Queen Street, Nina!"
To the legendary heroes Gargantua, Friar John, Panurge Olivier had added, on Christophe's inspiration, a new character, a peasant, Jacques Patience, simple, cunning, sly, resigned, who was the butt of the others, putting up with it when he was thrashed and robbed, putting up with it when they made love to his wife, and laid waste his fields, tirelessly putting his house in order and cultivating his land, forced to follow the others to war, bearing the burden of the baggage, coming in for all the kicks, and still putting up with it, waiting, laughing at the exploits of his masters and the thrashings they gave him, and saying, "They can't go on for ever," foreseeing their ultimate downfall, looking out for it out of the corner of his eye, and silently laughing at the thought of it, with his great mouth agape.
"Oh, they all conduct shamefully when I go to school in Albany," burst out Sammy; "and I thrashed that puling young patroon, too, for he saw me and refused my salute. But I think he will render me my bow next time." "Do the quality not visit you here?" I asked Dorothy. "Visit us? No, cousin. Who is to receive them? Our mother is dead."
The corn thrashed out is cleared away by the men, others winnow it, others heap it, others supply fresh layers. Every one seems happy and noisy, the women and girls singing, the men occasionally resting from their labour to pay their gallant attentions. The scene is so animated as to inspirit the beholder.
The same spectacle repeated itself here, except that Ellis, the dam watcher, was nowhere to be seen. "The dirty whelps," cried Thorpe, "they did a good job!" He thrashed about here and there, and so came across Ellis blindfolded and tied. When released, the dam watcher was unable to give any account of his assailants. "They came up behind me while I was cooking," he said.
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