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One of the officers lowered his glasses and barked a series of sharp commands. The crew on deck leaped to attention. One leaned over the conning-tower hatch and shouted to his mates below. A hatch forward of the tower opened, and a quick-firing gun on a disappearing carriage swung smoothly and silently up from its lair. The other officer, looking down, started violently. "Verdammt! What's this?"
Ve did had some liddle troubles mit der cards, and ven mine foot was slipped on dis verdammt grease-grass, he did not run me t'rough so like he might." "Oh; an affair of honor? Well, we'll count that in his favor. Take him away, Trelawny, and quarter yourself and twenty men upon him at Jennifer House. You have your parole, Mr.
Thirdly, I would import some strong words from the English tongue to swear with, and also to use in describing all sorts of vigorous things in a vigorous way. "Verdammt," and its variations and enlargements, are words which have plenty of meaning, but the SOUNDS are so mild and ineffectual that German ladies can use them without sin.
I noticed that the two men, who now stood idly looking out of the windows, did not wear uniforms. They were dressed in ordinary rough-looking clothes of foreign cut; it struck me as very strange. I asked them who they were. "Are you the warders of the prison?" I said. "Hein!" the dark one inquired. "Are you the warders of the prison?" I repeated. "Find out, verdammt Englander," the man replied.
On July the 5th, however, there came a hurried summons from Captain von Tappken for me to report at Koenigergratzerstrasse 70. I lost no time in getting around, nor did I have to wait to be ushered up. I was shown direct to the Captain's office and as he received me, I noticed that he was in a rather excited frame of mind. "Verdammt! Doctor! I am going to lose you.
Then he got his fingers between the noose and his neck; now the thing loosened and he pitched forward, but kept his feet. "Gott verdammt!" roared a voice above him; "Von Steyr! here! get back there! get back!" "Rickerl!" gasped Jack "tell tell them they must shoot not hang " He stood glaring at the soldiers before him, face bloody and distorted, the rope trailing from one clenched hand.
He screwed up his eyes against the sun, in order to see her better he was short-sighted, too, but vanity forbade him to wear glasses and when, at the corner of the street, Ephie rather spoilt the effect of her behaviour by throwing a hasty glance back, he laughed and clicked his tongue against the roof of his mouth. "VERDAMMT!" he said with expression.
Thus she sat without a sound or a motion, her heart within her torn with fear and pain, all through the long hours of that night; when the cold, white dawn came up, she was still pressing him to her bosom, sobbing and whispering faintly, "Oh, David! Oh, my poor, poor David!" Hast du im Venusburg geweilt, So bist nun ewig du verdammt! "Then said I, 'Woe is me!
"Now that's enough-plenty out of you, seien die boots verdammt, and mach' dass du fort gehst muddy boots, hell! put mal ein egg in die boots and beat it, verleicht maybe I'll by golly arrest you myself, weiss du! I'm a special deputy sheriff." The young man stood stockily.
When Tarleton would have made him choose between the taking of the king's oath and captivity in the hulks at Charleston, a burly Hessian captain at the table spoke the word in season. "Verdammt! mine Colonel; I vill know dis Mr. Yennifer. He is a prave yoong schalavags, and he is not gone out mit der rebels. Give him to me for mine plunders." The colonel laughed and showed his teeth.
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