United States or Vietnam ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"That stupid servant!" squealed Madame Rousseau, hugging the baby to her breast in frantic relief. "Oh, what a fright I have had. Take the baby, Jean. Mon dieu! Do not let it fall! Oh, m'sieur, madame, you will never know how I was anguished. I thought I had lost my darling, my adored one. The black-hand what-you-call-him non, non, the kidnapper. My baby!
"No, 'pon my word!" said Vavasor earnestly, "nothing farther from my thoughts. I was only admiring the coolness of the man who would actually creep into the mouth of the the the jungle after a what-you-call-him a man-eating tiger." "Well, you see, what was a fellow to do," returned the major suspiciously. "The fellow wouldn't come out! and by Jove I wasn't the only fellow that wanted him out!
"I don't wonder the girls laughed," replied Leopold. "Why so?" asked Mr. Redmond, blankly. "You didn't quote it just as the poet 'What-you-call-him' wrote it, Stumpy can give it to you correctly." "'Water, water everywhere; Not any drop to drink," added Stumpy; "and Coleridge was the fellow that wrote it." "Not correct," protested Mr. Redmond, emphatically.
His other fellow-students did not care about discussions with a lad who appeared to have a monopoly of the truth. "Professor So-and-So is a beast; What-you-call-him is a talented chap; that fellow is a thick-witted chap. This kid is all right; that one is not."
They'll give three hundred dollars fer the lion an' five hundred fer the eddicated chim -what-you-call-him. You know." "The educated chimpanzee," said Shep. "That's it. It looks as if that chimpanzee was wuth a lot to them. He was a whole show in hisself." "Well, we've got the lion right enough," said Snap. "We don't know anything about the monkey."
The judge leaned forward, his old eyes yet more brilliant, and said in specially distinct tones: "Do you really mean to say that when Sir Wilson Seymour saw that wild what-you-call-him with curves and a woman's hair and a man's trousers, what he saw was Sir Wilson Seymour?" "Yes, my lord," said Father Brown.
Word Of The Day