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Updated: June 20, 2025
And so dost thou." "Wife, dost thou not think we might speak out honestly like true men, and trust the All-Merciful with the child's future?" "Well, if ever I did see a lame, wall-eyed, broken-kneed old pack-ass, he was called Abraham the son of Ursel!" And Licorice stood with uplifted hands, gazing on her lord and master in an attitude of pitying astonishment.
Slowly the horse slid forward to a ribbon of trail that led less precipitously to the camp. "'Lo, Joe. Fall off an' rest," a one-armed man invited. By the light of the camp-fire he was a hard-faced, wall-eyed citizen with a jaw like a steel trap. Yankie dismounted and straddled to the fire. "How-how; I'm heap hungry, boys. Haven't et since mornin'." "We're 'most out of grub.
She set up on the edge o' the bed, makin' wild stabs with 'er feet at 'er slippers, and lookin' wall-eyed an' scared. "'Pa, says she, 'this is one o' yore jokes. "'Joke a dog's hind-foot! says I. 'If you think it's a joke you jest step to that thar window an' look down at the peach-packin' shed. "Well, sir, you don't have to tell a woman twice how to verify an important report.
For in this advanced age of streamlined electric can openers and sleek pop-up toasters, who but the most naïve among us can fail to be titillated by the thought of a buck-toothed, wall-eyed moron building Rube Goldberg contrivances in his basement?
I can slip off the saddle, if need be, without danger." "That's all very well; but his eyes are vicious; he will serve you a trick some day." "When he does, I'll sell him for a cart-horse." Laura and Redmond rode Jones's horses. Harry Lothrop was mounted on his horse Black, a superb, thick-maned creature, with a cluster of white stars on one of his shoulders. Maurice rode a wall-eyed pony.
"Non," replied the wall-eyed guardian, shaking his head, "Non, il est mort sans le sou." At the mention of coin I distributed pourboire. The first guardian went away. I lingered at the tomb, alive now to its more sordid side.
With longer contact his fear of the caroj had lessened, and his self-esteem rose at his recognized ability as a hunter. He strolled arrogantly out into the knee-high grass, crossbow over his shoulder, whistling tunelessly through his teeth. Jason stared after him and once again felt a growing unease. "I don't trust that wall-eyed mercenary, I don't trust him for one second," he muttered.
Voyageurs tried to shoot the big canoe over a waterfall; for when Jean tilted one end of the long bench, they landed as cleanly on the floor as if their craft had plunged. But the copper-faced Le Borgne remained taciturn and tongue-tied. "Be curse to that wall-eyed knave," muttered Radisson. "He's too deep a man to let go! We must capture him or win him!"
And let me tell you, when Moses has trimmed them a little, they will cut a very tolerable figure. To this proposal I objected, that walking would be twenty times more genteel than such a paltry conveyance, as Blackberry was wall-eyed, and the Colt wanted a tail: that they had never been broke to the rein; but had an hundred vicious tricks; and that we had but one saddle and pillion in the whole house.
"We didn't know whether to laugh or to cheer, but most of us compromised by keeping an eye on Butch's gun. "Sally says, 'Sure I'll dance, and gets up. "'Wait! hollers Butch; 'are you leavin' me for this wall-eyed galoot? "There ain't nothin' Sally loves more'n a fight we all know that.
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