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Updated: May 7, 2025
Things were happening too swiftly for them to be put into crisp sentences by a man whose thoughts were muddled by the fact that beside him waited a girl in a whipcord riding suit the same girl who had leaped from an automobile on the Denver highway and It crystallized things for him momentarily. "I 'm going to ask you something after a while something that I 've wondered and wondered about.
I was too much disconcerted and crestfallen to answer the question, and avoided my two prospective guests for the rest of the day. Already I was half repenting my venture. But there was no drawing back now. Letters or messages came from the rest of the "usual lot" the Twins, Flanagan, the Field-Marshal, Daly, and Whipcord, every one of them saying they'd be there.
To make the mosquito covering take 18 feet of ordinary strong cheese cloth, and two pieces of strong calico of the same size as the canvas bed; put hems in the ends of the upper one large enough to take half-inch sticks, to all four extremities of which 8 feet of whipcord is to be attached.
He did not wish to disturb the plots and counterplots that he was confident were forming in Clay's brain, and his devotion would have been severely tried had he known that his hero's mind was filled with a picture of a young girl in a blue shirt-waist and a whipcord riding-skirt.
I seen you as I was a-comin' back from the racket school. My eye, wasn't you tidy and screwed though! You don't ought to be trusted with 'orses, you don't." "I wasn't screwed, Billy," said I, "and I wasn't driving." "No, that you wasn't driving. But I knows the bloke as was." "Do you know Mr Whipcord?" "Yaas, I knows the animal," he replied, with a grin.
He is a picturesque figure in the firelight, this thirty-year-old son of the renowned General Brabant, ten stone weight I should say, all whipcord and fencing wire, rather a hard-faced man; no feather-bed frontiersman this, but a tough, hard-grained bit of humanity, who has fought niggers and hunted for big game at an age when most young fellows are thinking more of poetry and pretty faces than of hard knocks and harder sport.
Toonda, on the other hand, was a man of singular temperament. He was good-looking and more intelligent than any native I had ever before seen. His habit was spare, but his muscles were firm, and his sinews like whipcord He must indeed have had great confidence in his own powers to have undertaken a journey of more than 200 miles from his own home.
I know who it is." "Who is it?" cried the others. "Why, can't you guess?" yelled Whipcord. "No! Who?" "Jack Ketch!" This new idea was taken up with the utmost rapture, and my uncle was forthwith dubbed with his fresh title. "Three cheers for Uncle Ketch, you fellows!" shouted Whipcord. The cheers were given with great hubbub.
Captain Coxe, that celebrated humorist of Coventry, whose library of ballads, almanacs, and penny histories, fairly wrapped up in parchment, and tied round for security with a piece of whipcord, remains still the envy of antiquaries, being himself the ingenious person under whose direction the pageant had been set forth, rode valiantly on his hobby-horse before the bands of English, high-trussed, saith Laneham, and brandishing his long sword, as became an experienced man of war, who had fought under the Queen's father, bluff King Henry, at the siege of Boulogne.
A pendent shrub, 4 ft. or more high, growing on rocks and the mossy trunks of trees. Branches numerous, flexuous, with small branchlets or joints springing from the ends in clusters, smooth, round, the thickness of whipcord, leafless, with numerous brown, dot-like marks scattered over the surface; under a lens these dots are seen to be tufts of very fine hairs.
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