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Updated: May 4, 2025
He has been stuffing himself, and now he doesn't know what to do with his tummy! Get out of my sight, you confounded fellow! Plague take you!" The native looks sourly at him, and merely twiddles his fingers instead of answering. A school-boy of his acquaintance passes by him with his satchel on his back. Stopping him the native ponders a long time what to say to him, and asks: "Well, what now?"
She is a most secretive person, twiddles us all round her fingers and never lets us know anything until it's done. It is most exasperating. Oh, I say, Kate," added Harry, suddenly, "would you mind dropping me at the florist's here?" "Why? Oh, I see," said Kate, drawing in her team. "How do you do, Lily?
"Ru-b-y-y-y!" "Drat the chap!" exclaimed Ruby's father, wheeling round sharply. "What d'ye wa-a-a-nt?" he yelled back. "Come to know 'bout that chest o' dra-w-w-ers!" "Then come 'long round by th' ga-a-ate!" "Can't sta-a-ay! Want to know, as I'm drivin' to Liskeard, if Ruby thinks nine-an'-six too mu-u-ch, as the twiddles be so very cle-v-ver!"
Young Zeb, to be ready for married life, had taken a house for himself a neat cottage with a yard and stable, farther up the coombe. But stress of business had interfered with the furnishing until quite lately. "Rate meogginy, I suppose, as befits a proud tradesman." "No: painted, but wi' the twiddles put in so artfully you'd think 'twas rale.
No, no, 'twas the land had taken possession of us, as the New World ever does, fusing ancient hates and rearing a new race, of which I wot no prophet may dare too much! "He who twiddles his thumbs may gnaw his gums," M. Radisson was wont to say; and I assure you there was no twiddling of thumbs that morning.
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