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He had been wisely deaf and had carried his lamp upstairs to the little turret chamber, where he chose to sleep on wild nights, that he might the better hear the wind swirl about him, the wind thresh and the sea roar and churn on the beaches and snore in the spouting-crags of the Burnfoot.
"I want to thresh out some things with you to-day, and I'll be as brief as possible," said Bassett when he and Harwood were alone. "You got matters fixed satisfactorily at Montgomery no trouble about your appointment?" "None; Mrs. Owen had arranged all that." "You mentioned to her, did you, my offer to help?" "Oh, yes!
In the autumn the owners of the herd call them in to thresh corn; the turf is removed, the ground beaten till it is very hard, and a railing placed round it; the corn is spread, and five hundred horses at a time are driven into the enclosure; they are terrified by the crackling straw and the noise of the whip over their heads, and the more frantic they are the sooner is the corn threshed."
"So I am," said the friar, "and I care not who knows it; but all in the way of honesty, master soldier. I am, as it were, her spiritual lover; and were she a damsel errant, I would be her ghostly esquire, her friar militant. I would buckle me in armour of proof, and the devil might thresh me black with an iron flail, before I would knock under in her cause.
The close-reefed foresail flew out from the brails, and began to thresh tremendously in the fierce blast. "Slack the weather vang!" continued Terrill to the hands who had been stationed at this rope. "Walk away with the sheet!"
It wasn't like what it is now, with debts and drinking and card-playing, so people had something then." "Well, now they'd like to thresh the corn while it's still standing, and they sell the calves before they're born," said Kalle. "But I say, grandmother, you're Black Peter!" "That comes of letting one's tongue run on and forgetting to look after one's self!" said the old lady.
Of Milton himself, he writes: 'Whatever be the advantages of rhyme, I cannot prevail on myself to wish that Milton had been a rhymer; for I cannot wish his work to be other than it is; yet, like other heroes, he is to be admired rather than imitated. Ib. vii. 142. I could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket. Southey's Cowper, iii. 315.
It was the very chance they wanted, for they could now fire without the danger of hitting Mr. Damon. "Ready?" asked Tom of his chum in a low voice. "Ready!" was the equally low answer. It was necessary to kill the serpent at one shot, as to merely wound it might mean that in its agony it would thresh about, and seriously injure, if not kill, Mr. Damon.
"Oh, no doubt, no doubt," said Hal Saddler, mockingly "We shall have but bread and milk, and thou shalt have a most glorious threshing from thy father when thou comest home again!" That was the last straw to Nick's unhappy heart. "'Tis a threshing either way," said he, squaring his shoulders doggedly. "Father will thresh me if I run away, and Master Brunswood will thresh me if I don't.
The children came in to breakfast with glowing cheeks and hair awry, crying excitedly in the same breath that they "had been to the chestnut trees and that Jack had opened the burrs all night." In answer to their clamorous petitions a one-o'clock dinner was promised, and Aunt Annie was to accompany them on a nutting expedition with Jeff as pioneer to thresh and club the trees. "Can I go too?"
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