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Sheila put out her hand. "Wilmet Gaunt will go to the bad if you turn them out." "I am afraid I think she has gone to the bad already, and I do not mean her to take others there with her. I am sorry for poor Tryst, and I wish he could find some nice woman to marry; but what he proposes is impossible." The blood had flared up again in Sheila's cheeks; she was as red as the comb of a turkey-cock.
'I am very angry with the Baron, said Lord Rotherwood; 'he is grown inhospitable: he will not let me come here to-morrow the first Christmas these five years that I have missed paying my respects to the New Court sirloin and turkey. It is too bad and the Westons dining here too. 'Cousin Turkey-cock, well may you be in a passion, muttered Claude, as if in soliloquy.
From the empyrean we look down upon common humanity, talk turgid and swell up with the vain glory of a young turkey-cock with his first tail feathers! It were well for us to cease our foolish boasting and con well the stern lessons taught at the cannon's mouth. The first and greatest of these is that only by honest labor, by earnest endeavor, can a people become truly great.
You do not understand Ursula: she is a perfect saint: she is the simplest, most unselfish, grandest-hearted creature; and you make out that she is a silly flirt like Sara." And then I had to hold my tongue, though I was as red as a turkey-cock, for there was Mr.
"An' what fer do ye need food before y'r execution?" he added, with a twist of his mouth. "Before execution, ye turkey-cock before execution is the time to eat and drink. How shall the bloomin' carnage gore the Libyan sands, if there ain't no refreshment for the vitals and the diagrams?"
Crusoe observed them too, and would soon have put an end to the fight had Dick not checked him. Creeping as close to the belligerents as possible, he found that one was a wild turkey-cock, the other a white-headed eagle!
"I should say like cabbages from your description, father." "No insolence, sir. How dare you disgrace your family? Writing tales indeed! "And you took money I'll be bound, eh! eh!" "I have just informed you that I took all I could get," said Beecot junior, quietly. "I'll live in Town on my savings. When I make a name and a fortune I'll return." "Never! never!" gobbled the turkey-cock.
How my father came to hear of the matter we did not know at the time, but one morning he summoned Jem and me, and bade us tell him all about it. I was always rather afraid of my father, and I should have made out a very stammering story, but Jem flushed up like a turkey-cock, and gave our version of the business very straightforwardly.
Tom Long flushed up as red as a turkey-cock, and looked at his superior officer in the most shame-faced way. "I I I " he began. "Why, I believe you were delighted to hear that the steamer was aground." "Well, no, sir; not that the steamer is aground," said Tom. "I I was not sorry, though, that Roberts had made a mess of it. He is so bounceable, sir."
All the juice like goes to my arms now I've no legs that's how I reck'n it be." "We must get in before they come again. Quick!" "Ah, they won't come again, sir. Easy satisfied, the Gap Gang. Got no guts because they got no God.... Ah, here's Mr. Joy!" The Parson was coming across the greensward, high and mighty as a turkey-cock. The Gentleman was standing among the sycamores, laughing.
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