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She felt dazed and giddy, sick with fear, and yet glowing with admiration in the midst of her agonized anxiety. To the men it was a wonderful and exciting sight that had altogether stirred them from their usual turnip-like lethargy. When the master came down, all shaking and bleeding, they bellowed hearty compliments in his ear. "Now," said the old charwoman, when Mr. and Mrs.
The crowd outside, which was now rampant of disorder, recognized in the short, corpulent figure before them, with the red hair standing erect upon a turnip-like head, the man of their wish, whom they greeted with three deafening cheers. The major bowed and spread his hands, in the left of which he held the engrossing emblem of his dignity, his three cornered hat.
"Ye feel a' richt, do ye?" returned the doctor, ignoring George's question. "Ye're no' hungry nor thirsty, eh?" "Not particularly," answered George. "And yet I think I could take some breakfast, if it would not be troubling " "Brackfast! Hear til him; brackfast! why, mon," drawing out a huge, turnip-like silver watch "it's nearly sax o'clock p.m. Will a bite o' dinner no' serve ye as weel?
The four cabins were inhabited by Maine Yankees who had come up the Mississippi to St. Paul and driven north over virgin prairie into virgin woods. They ground their own corn; the men-folks shot ducks and pigeons and prairie chickens; the new breakings yielded the turnip-like rutabagas, which they ate raw and boiled and baked and raw again.
How magnificent, to my eye, seemed the turnip-like canopy that hung over the minister's head, hooked by a long iron rod to the wall above! and how apprehensively did I consider the question, what would become of him if it should fall!
It is supposed to be a hybrid between the cabbage and the turnip and is often called the cabbage-turnip, having the root of the former, with a turnip-like or bulbous stem. The special reason for its more extensive cultivation among us is its wonderful indifference to droughts, in which it seems to flourish best, and to bring forth the most luxuriant crops.
I wanted something to engage my thoughts, and from that day forward I became fonder and fonder of tulips." The evening was passed more pleasantly than Owen had anticipated. Mr Fluke, indeed, appeared to be an altogether different person to what he had seemed at his first interview with his young relative. "Boys want more sleep than old men," said Mr Fluke, pulling out his turnip-like watch.
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