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"I know where that shoe pinches," retorted Graves. "You mean I've consistently neglected to vote for you. Somehow I never could swallow your assumption of divine right to hold office all the time." Shelby's fingers knotted round his whip-handle. "I'd like to trounce you," he menaced. "It's a hiding you need." "For presuming to run against you?
So he sont 'im to school to ole Miss Lawry down dyar, dis side o' Cun'l Chahmb'lin's, an' I use' to go 'long wid 'im an' tote he books an' we all's snacks; an' when he larnt to read an' spell right good, an' got 'bout so-o big, old Miss Lawry she died, an' ole marster said he mus' have a man to teach 'im an' trounce 'im. So we all went to Mr.
Now, he was being set to the straightening-out of some twist in Oceana, to the healing of a sore which threatened one of her limbs. Then, when Oceana, in that quarter, was waxing strong on his regimen, Downing Street, not having prescribed it all, would trounce him. The calls to South Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa were in the agreeable key.
We concluded that the people had been detained either by the Dutch or the natives. Yet as the remaining part of the Lascars were desirous to be landed, we stood in with the long-boat, and put them on shore near the point where we supposed the cutter to have landed her people. Our number in the long-boat were now reduced to seventeen, consisting of Mr. Trounce, Mr.
Johnson. "Elfrid, pass the mustid down." Miriam leaning across the table: "Elfrid!" "Once she got us all kept in. The whole school!" Miriam, more insistently: "Elfrid!" Uncle Pentstemon, raising his voice defiantly: "Trounce 'er again I would if she did as much now. That I would! Dratted mischief!" Miriam, catching Mr. Polly's eye: "Elfrid! This lady knows Canterbury.
US Treasury bonds and notes compete on scarce domestic savings with businesses in countries from Japan to Russia and trounce them every time. Savers and governments prefer to channel their funds to acquire US government obligations dollar bills, T-bills, T-notes, equities, corporate bonds, and government bonds rather than invest in their precarious domestic private sector.
"Oh, I'm not going to hurt you, old Mr. Woodchuck," said Fido. "I have too much respect for your gray hairs." "Thank you," replied the woodchuck, sarcastically, "but I'm not afraid of any bench-legged fyste that ever walked. It was only last week that I whipped Deacon Skinner's yellow mastiff, and I calc'late I can trounce you, you ridiculous little brown cur!"
But Irus kept on shouting, 'I'll knock the teeth out of your jaws. 'I'll trounce you. Antinous, the most insolent of the wooers, saw the squabble, and he laughed to see the pair defying each other. 'Friends, said he, 'the gods are good to us, and don't fail to send us amusement. The strange beggar and our own Irus are threatening each other. Let us see that they don't draw back from the fight.
I have plenty more to say to you, Peter; but I don't like writing what, perhaps, may never be read, so I'll wait till I hear from you; and then, as soon as I get through my business, we will set to and trounce that scoundrel of an uncle.
"Well," said Jeannin, "it is getting late. Are we going to wait for the chevalier?" "Let us call, for him." "Very well. Perhaps he has made up his mind to stay. If so, we shall make a horrible scene, cry treachery and perjury, and trounce your nephew well. Let's settle our score and be off." They left the wine-shop, both rather the worse for the wine they had so largely indulged in.
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