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But, death alive, sir, sure when we put both conclusions together myself bein' sich a worthy man, and Ellish such a tip-top wife, who could blame me for smellin' the bottle? for divil a much more I did about two glasses, sir an' so it got up into my head a little when I was wid your honor to-day before." "But what is the amount of all this, Peter?"
Though his head was hardly in a condition to follow the game intelligently, he won, or at least Bill and Jack told him he had, and for the first time Lawrence felt the rapture of the successful gambler, as he gathered in his winnings. "He plays a steep game, Bill," said Jack. "Tip-top A No. 1." "I believe I do play a pretty good game," said the flattered Peabody.
Some years after the period in question, when I paid him a visit, in the month of August, the very tip-top was bare, and the thermometer at 70°. Under more favourable circumstances, we might possibly have seen Teneriffe from the Volage, for our distance was not above a hundred miles.
Queer reasoning this of Mr. Horn's, he said to himself. He had always thought that he and his father were on the tip-top of any kind of tide, flood or ebb and as for Kate, she was the white gull that skimmed its crest! Again Harry dropped into deep thought, shifting his legs now and then in his restless, impatient way.
Wrecked? Why, Captain, you haven't ever been wrecked?" And he looked him all over as if he expected to see "WRECKED" branded on him by the elements. "Ay, James, wrecked on the French coast, and lost my chronometer, and a tip-top sextant. But what of that? I saved It. I have just landed It in the Bank. Good-bye; I must sheer off: I long to be home." "Stay a bit, Captain," said Maxley.
"Oh, do not frown Upon this crown Of green pinks and blue geranium But think of me When this you see, And put it on your cranium." "O Molly, you will never hear the last of that if Grif gets it," said Jill, as the applause subsided, for the boys pronounced it "tip-top."
"Well, now," said the ardent youth, moving over to the sofa where she was sitting, and settling himself down beside her, "why shouldn't we get married? You're just the kind of girl I like tip-top, you know. I like a girl with style about her. Come, say yes." And here the crude outlines of something like a joke, for the first time in Mr.
The town runs right up the mountain to the tip-top where the monks are clear up in d' clouds. Dey say it snows up dere almost all d' time." Later on, from the loquacious guard, the two Americans learned quite a good bit about the country and city to which they were going. His knowledge was somewhat limited along certain lines, but quite clear as to others.
Ephemeral pleasure he finds in the hop-room, for he dances well; perennial attraction, his detractors say, he finds at the card-table, but Ray is never quite himself until he throws his leg over the horse he loves. He is facile princeps the light rider of the regiment, and to this claim there are none to say him nay. A tip-top soldier too is Ray.
Why, of course I do." "Everybody seems to know everybody in Friendship. It's funny," Rosalind commented thoughtfully. "Then you can tell me just what sort of a person she is." "She is tip-top; I like Miss Celia," Maurice replied, with emphasis. "Do you think she is kind?" "Yes, indeed.
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