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They'll run as fast as geese don't you see they're web-footed?" These were the cries which the soldiers vaguely understood to be jeers, and probably threats. But every one seemed disposed to give invitations of this spirited kind rather than to act upon them.
Seabury, when they got to the bungalow. "I congratulate you," said the elderly gentleman. "You deserve great credit for what you did." "Well, we had good luck," admitted Jerry. "But where is the professor?" "Out searching for horned toads and web-footed lizards," said Nellie. "He has enlisted the services of Ponto, and they are continually on the hunt. I hope he gets what he wants."
They are so call'd, because they are plentifully met withal under the Tropicks, and thereabouts. He is Web-footed, like a Goose, and shap'd like a Duck, but is a very large Fowl, bigger than a Goose. He is never eaten as Food; They make Tobacco-pouches of his Maw. His Fat or Grease, is as yellow as Saffron, and the best thing known, to preserve Fire-Arms, from Rust.
In former days every Yankee shipmaster was not a live, wide-awake, pushing, driving, web-footed Jehu, who disregarded fogs, was reckless of collisions with ships, fishing vessels, or icebergs, and cared little whether he strained the ship and damaged cargo, provided he made a short passage, as is the case in this enlightened age when "Young America" is in the ascendant.
Expedition against the Doboduras We hear reports about a Web-footed Tribe Landing at the Mouth of the Musa River A Good Bag Barigi River Reached A Flight of Torres Straits Pigeons A Tropical Night Scene Brilliant Rues of Tropical Fish Arrival of Supplies Prospects of a Stiff Fight Landing of the Force Pigs Shot to Prevent them from being Cooked Alive Novelty of Firearms A Red Sunrise Beauty of the Forest Enemies' War Cry First Heard Rushing a Village Revolting Relics of Cannibal Feast Doboduras eat their Enemies Alive Method of Extracting the Brains Extensive Looting Firing at the Enemies' Scouts An Exciting Chase When in Doubt Turn to the Right Another Village Rushed Skirmishes with the Enemy Relics of Cannibalism general in the Villages Camp Formed at the Largest Village Capture of Prisoners An "Object, Lesson" Carriers ask Leave to Eat one of the Slain Arigita's Opinion Cannibal Surroundings at our Supper Expectation of a Night Attack.
But you're the greatest fool, the dullest young ass out, notwithstanding. You won't suit me though you are web-footed! Why, damn it, boy! don't you understand yet that I'm your father?" "Mrs. Manson told me so, sir." "Oh, rot Mrs. Manson! she told you a damned lie! She told you I wronged your mother! I tell you I married her! What a blockhead you are!
Now, Ponto, lookout that no horned toads or web-footed lizards get the young ladies, and, above all, don't lie down alongside the road and take a nap." "Hu! Guess I ain't gwine t' sleep when I's 'scortin my massa's daughters home," declared the colored man, rather indignant that such a slur should be cast on him. "Don't worry," called Jerry, as the girls walked along the dock to shore.
But, as Hercules held on so stubbornly, and only squeezed the Old One so much the tighter at every change of shape, and really put him to no small torture, he finally thought it best to reappear in his own figure. So there he was again, a fishy, scaly, web-footed sort of personage, with something like a tuft of seaweed at his chin.
Upon a brisk sprightly chamber-maid entering my room one day at an inn in Glasgow, I heard a sound which resembled the pattering of some web-footed bird, when in the act of climbing up the miry side of a pond. I looked down upon the feet of this bonny lassie, and found that their only covering was procured from the mud of the high street adieu! to the tender eulogies of the pastoral reed!
It is somewhat larger than a sparrow; the feathers of the back are dark, and those of the belly are white; the bill is straight, short, and thick; and it is web-footed: they are almost one lump of fat; when roasted, of a most delicious taste, and are reckoned to exceed an ortolan; for which reason the gentry hereabouts call them the Irish Ortolan.
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