Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 11, 2025
"'Well, says the nager, 'I'll take chance of that, any way." "I'm tould, Shane," observed the poacher, "that the Square was a fine man in his time, that wouldn't put up with sich treatment from anybody." "Ay, but he was ould now," Shane replied, "and too wakely to fight. A fine man, Bill! he was the finest man, 'cepting ould Square Storey, that ever was in this counthry.
"Why, Mickey O'Brian!" exclaimed the astonished soldier, who had by the gun-flash recognized the familiar features of a quondam friend; "why on earth didn't you tell your name, man? I might have killed you as dead as a door-nail." "An' a purty thrickit 'ud be for ye, too, Tommy Daily. It's not ashamed of my name I am, an' if I'd know'd it was you, I'd tould ye before.
"The boy here," she replied, pointing to Hanlon, "can tell you that betther than I can; for although I've been at his place three or four times, I never laid eyes on him yet." "Well," continued the pedlar, "you have both a right to be thankful that you tould me this. I now see the hand of God in the whole business. I know this box an' I can tell you something that will surprise you more than that.
"Told us," I say out of complaisance, but "tould" would be the better word, as all they uttered savoured so much of the brogue, that it was not always easy to get at their meaning. It was past noon when the Dawn anchored; and the wind got more to the eastward, about half an hour afterwards.
Its aginst their oath, I'm tould, as Ribbonmen, to prosecute one another; an' from hints I resaved, I'm afraid they can't do it, as I said, barrin' at the risk o' their lives." "Father," said John, "as far as I have heard, he speaks nothing but truth." "I believe he does not," rejoined the Bodagh, "an', by my sowl, I'll be bound he's an honest man upon my credit, I think you are, M'Cormick."
You are unfit to be a lubber, and would be log-booked for an or'nary by every gentleman on board ship. You, a full-jiggered sea-man! No, you are not even half-jiggered, sir; and I tell you so to your face." "Yes, and it is n't half that might be tould the likes of yees!" put in Biddy, as her mistress stopped to breathe.
"There's a town about three miles down yonder, and a fine inn, I 'm tould, sir," replied he, as he scrutinized my appearance with a shrewd eye; "but if I might make so bould, maybe you 'd as lief not go there, and perhaps you 'd take share of what we have here?" "Willingly," said I, accepting the hospitable offer as freely as it was made, and entered the cabin at once.
Hello! there's the bell, boys, so mind what I tould yez; we'll give him a farewell benefit, if it was only for the sake of poor Drywig. Ah, poor Drywig! how will he live widout him? Ochone, ochone! ha, ha, ha!"
There was a crowd av boats tied up, so I tuk wan an' wint across the river, Thin I came home acrost country, lyin' up by day." "How on earth did you manage?" I said. "How did Sir Frederick Roberts get from Cabul to Candahar? He marched an' he niver tould how near he was to breakin' down. That's why he is fwhat he is.
Then they came to the cudgel, and flaked me; but it was in a good cause, and I tould them that if I must die a marthyr to cleanliness, I must; and at last they dropped it, and so I got free of Bob Broghan. "The next was a little fellow that kept a small shop of hucksthery, and some groceries, and the like o' that.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking