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Goldsmith, Mr. Chamier, and Sir John Hawkins. They met at the Turk's Head in Gerard Street, Soho, one evening in every week at seven, and generally continued their conversation till a very late hour.
I met her by setting about to meet her. I had for t' meet her. I got Harry Burisford, th' manager o' th' theatre thou knowst, for t' introduce us. Then I give a supper, nephew I give a supper at Turk's Head, but private like." "Was that the time when you were supposed to be at the Ratepayers' Association every night?" Herbert asked blandly. "It was, nephew," said Si, with equal blandness.
Walden, "in that bag, the one-hundred-and-one kind, and a bushel and three pecks of clover seed in the other bag. You can get a barrel of 'lasses, half a quintal of codfish, half a barrel of mackerel, and a bag of Turk's Island salt." "Don't forget," said Mrs. Walden, "that we want some pepper, spice, cinnamon, nutmegs, cloves, and some of the very best Maccaboy snuff. Oh, let me see!
For of this am I very sure: If we had the fifteenth part of the love for Christ that he both had and hath for us, all the pain of this Turk's persecution could not keep us from him, but there would be at this day as many martyrs here in Hungary as there have been before in other countries of old.
Outlaws and desperadoes were always to be met with on Western trails in those rugged days, and more than once Turk's constant vigilance warned father in time to prevent attacks from suspicious night prowlers. The attachment which had grown up between Turk and his young master was but the natural love of boys for their dogs intensified.
No originality of thought, and but little curiosity. Few ideas ever penetrated the Turk's slow mind, and the few that did penetrate were received as military orders, to be obeyed without question and adhered to without reflection. Such was the being who took over the leadership of Islam from the Saracen's failing grasp.
Then we had no sleep no rest but were forced to work as fast as we could, and go on again all next day the same as usual. Work work work Oh that Turk's Island was a horrible place! The people in England, I am sure, have never found out what is carried on there. Cruel, horrible place! Mr. D had a slave called old Daniel, whom he used to treat in the most cruel manner.
As in a dream, or as if he had been looking at something at the play, he was conscious that the Turk's hair and beard lay upon the table, and that Lord Sannox was leaning against the wall with his hand to his side, laughing silently.
"He has got a bird, close under his nose; and it will get up, and steal away directly. That's a trick they will play very often." "He haint got no bird," said Tom, sulkily. And Frank paused doubtful. "Step up, I tell you, Frank," said Harry, "the old Turk's savage; that's all." And Frank did step up, close to the dog's nose; and sent his foot through the grass close under it.
Again and again these boats, roped together and tugged by a little launch, went back and forth from the S.S. Canada to the "Turk's Head Pier"-a tiny wooden jetty built by the Engineers. I asked one of the straw-hatted men of the Naval Division, who was casting off the painter, what the place was like "Sand an' flies, and flies an' sand nothinkelse!" he replied.
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