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Updated: June 6, 2025
He blandly and sweetly took his tooth-pick out of his mouth between his fingers, as if it were a cigar we were just in the act of climbing an overhanging big tree, and the passengers were scudding astern like rats and lifted up these commands to me ever so gently 'Stop the starboard. Stop the larboard. Set her back on both.
A signal, and Jim pushed upon another lever that brought the steel arm back to first position, dangling the immense pine over the flat sledge as if it were a tooth-pick. A man was waiting to use his cant-hook to steady the log at one end while the cable deposited its freight lengthwise on the floor of the sledge.
He agreed that the measurement and transportation should not cost me the value of his tooth-pick quite an old and worthless one which he showed me. Yet I was surprised into the payment of a youth whom this man called to assist at the measurement, and I had to give the boatman drink-money at the end.
The man in the knickerbockers tilted his hat at a rakish angle, stuck a tooth-pick in the corner of his mouth, put his thumbs in his jacket arm holes, shot Wayland a quick look of questioning, grinned at the old man and nodded towards a white pergola standing apart from the veranda of the ranch house. "Find it there," he indicated, "drop a nickel then, ring!"
During the quarter of an hour which had elapsed, the officers of the household had made preparations for the royal repast by tasting the bread and the salt, and by testing the plates, the fork, the spoon, the knife, and the tooth-pick of the king, so as to be assured that no poison could be thus conveyed.
Some people 'ave the cheek to say this isn't my invention, see? It is, you know THAT'S all right; but I don't want that gone into. I want a fair and square agreement saying that's all right. See?" His "See?" faded into a profound silence. The secretary sighed at last, leant back in his chair and produced a tooth-pick, and used it, to assist his meditation on Bert's case.
As he finished his meal, and took out his gold tooth-pick, and felt a comfortable joy of such misery and sympathy, Vesta opened the door, and said: "Papa!" "My child?" "Let me speak with you."
"What was that name?" he asked at last, putting away the tooth-pick; "I must write it down." "Albert Peter Smallways," said Bert, in a mild tone. The secretary wrote it down, after a little difficulty about the spelling because of the different names of the letters of the alphabet in the two languages. "And now, Mr.
WISE said in one of his speeches during the last session of Congress, that he was obliged to go armed for the protection of his life in Washington. It could not have been for fear of Northern men. They all carry knives here, or pistols. There are several kinds of knives in use a narrow blade, and about twelve inches long, is called an 'Arkansas tooth-pick."
As to powder, why, you'll come across that 'most everywhere, an' lead too; and, for the matter o' that, if your life depended on it you could shove a handful of gravel or a pen-knife or tooth-pick into your gun an' blaze away, but with a breech-loader, if you run out o' cartridges, where are you?" So, as Nigel could not say where he was, the percussion-gun had been purchased.
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