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Updated: May 4, 2025
Knowing how soon the balloon follows the pilot, she immediately ranged the Stunner-tartan-clad children in the breakfast-room; and as the first whip's rate sounded as he rode round the corner, she sank into an easy-chair by the fire, with a lace-fringed kerchief in the one hand and the Mark Lane Express in the other. 'Halloa!
At last, as I had repeatedly warned him, the mate singled him out one morning, and commanded him to mount to the main-truck, and unreeve the short signal halyards. "Sir?" said Harry, aghast. "Away you go!" said the mate, snatching a whip's end. "Don't strike me!" screamed Harry, drawing himself up. "Take that, and along with you," cried the mate, laying the rope once across his back, but lightly.
Then, turning to the whip's wife as she re-entered the room carrying a jug of hot water, she went on, with that inborn instinct of hers to charm and give pleasure: "What a nice, sunny room you have here, Mrs. Denman. I'm afraid I'm making a dreadful mess of it. I'm so sorry." "Don't mention it, miss.
They were a painter and a poet, whom he had patronized in his prosperity. "Hail, worthy Timon!" said the poet. "We heard with astonishment how your friends deserted you. No whip's large enough for their backs!" "We have come," put in the painter, "to offer our services." "You've heard that I have gold," said Timon.
And then, while we counted out the last seconds of the half, came a snap like that of a whip's lash, and the bowl of Richter's pipe lay smouldering on the grass. The noble had cut the stem as clean as it were sapling twig, and there stood Richter with the piece still clenched in his teeth, his eyes ablaze, and his cheek running blood.
You're an advocate of patriarchal despotism. You want to have the whip in your hand! 'A whip's an excellent thing, remarked Bazarov; 'but we've got to the last drop. 'Of what? interrupted Evdoksya. 'Of champagne, most honoured Avdotya Nikitishna, of champagne not of your blood. 'I can never listen calmly when women are attacked, pursued Evdoksya. 'It's awful, awful.
"This whip's the real thing," said the young driver, displaying and surveying it as he spoke; "that is a whip now, fit for a man to use." "A man wouldn't use it as you do," said Daisy. "It is cruel." "That's what you think. I guess you'd see papa use a whip once in a while." "Besides, you came along too fast to see anything."
If I were to be exposed a second time to that same former danger of the plantations, I judged it must turn ill with me; there was no second Alan, and no second shipwreck and spare yard to be expected now; and I saw myself hoe tobacco under the whip's lash.
And then, while we counted out the last seconds of the half, came a snap like that of a whip's lash, and the bowl of Richter's pipe lay smouldering on the grass. The noble had cut the stem as clean as it were sapling twig, and there stood Richter with the piece still clenched in his teeth, his eyes ablaze, and his cheek running blood.
They may not all be very clever, or very learned, or very anything except gallant men; but they are all good enough company for me, or anyone; and each has his own specialite, for which I like him. That huntsman I have known for fifteen years, and sat many an hour beside his father's death-bed. I am godfather to that whip's child.
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