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But it's all changed now; plenty staterooms above, no harvesters below there's a patent self-binder now, and they don't have harvesters any more; they've gone where the woodbine twineth and they didn't go by steamboat, either; went by the train.
"Oh, you'll be glad, I'm betting!" was the answer, half-rueful, half-relieved, for somehow Strong had "taken to" the doctor's guest and to doubting his own. "Those galoots at McDowell let up on their watch, and 'Tonio's walked off 'gone where the woodbine twineth' 'Patchie Sanchez with him!"
But it's all changed now; plenty staterooms above, no harvesters below there's a patent self-binder now, and they don't have harvesters any more; they've gone where the woodbine twineth and they didn't go by steamboat, either; went by the train.
The ban that led Fanny Mendelssohn to publish her music under her brother's name, has gone where the puritanic theory of the disgracefulness of the musical profession now twineth its choking coils. A publisher informs me that where compositions by women were only one-tenth of his manuscripts a few years ago, they now form more than two-thirds.
But it's all changed now; plenty staterooms above, no harvesters below there's a patent self-binder now, and they don't have harvesters any more; they've gone where the woodbine twineth and they didn't go by steamboat, either; went by the train.
Lopez looked a good deal like a man who might deal in dazzling futures, taking care that all the profit came to himself. He was swarthy and good-natured, but with a crafty eye. "The Fortunatus Syndicate?" he said, with an airy laugh. "Gentlemen, it is gone as you say where the woodbine twineth. Yes, for two years past.
Fast he stealeth on, though he wears no wings, And a staunch old heart has he. How closely he twineth, how tight he clings To his friend the huge Oak Tree! And slily he traileth along the ground, And his leaves he gently waves, As he joyously hugs and crawleth round The rich mould of dead men's graves. Creeping where grim death has been, A rare old plant is the Ivy green.
No Seagraves fit and bled here. Those are Geraldine's quarters up there behind the leaded windows. Those are Kathleen's where the dinky woodbine twineth. Mine face the east, and yours are next. Come on out into the park " "Not much!" returned young Mallett. "I want a bath!" "The park," interrupted Scott excitedly, "is the largest fenced game-preserve in America!
He answered dryly: "I wouldn't swear to it I wouldn't go so far as to make my affadavvy to it, but I think I seen your shirt wavin' from a p'int a rock about seventy mile to the south'ard over t'ward the Thunder Mountain country." "Gone?" "Gone" mournfully "where the woodbine twineth." "And my trousers?" "Where the wangdoodle mourneth fer his lost love. Blowed off.
Okada has been solemnly assured that, in dealing with certain white men, they will insist upon an eye for an optic and a tusk for a tooth; he knows that if he starts anything further he will go straight to that undiscovered country where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its mate." "What has become of Okada?" "He has dragged it out of here drifted and went hence for keeps."
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