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Consider what sort of a voyage Socrates and Aristides and Phocion had of it, on short rations, not venturing, for the filth, to stretch out their legs on the bare deck; and on the other hand what a comfortable, luxurious, contemptuous life it was for Callias or Midias or Sardanapalus. That is how things go on board your ship, sir wiseacre; and who shall count the wrecks?
And Wiseacre, Observer, and Wide-awake I am the Children's Owl. It is all owing to that little girl; the one with the fluffy hair and the wise eyes. On the occasion I am about to speak of, I could not help it. It was last summer that that Bad Boy caught me, and squeezed me into a wicker cage.
There was a lurking suspicion among them, fostered by Uncle Ben Rudder of Tuggle Bight, the wiseacre and oracle of the Bay, that Indian Jake's payment of the debt was not prompted by honesty but by some ulterior motive. Indian Jake emptied his plate. He refilled it with the last of the stew and again emptied it, in the interim swallowing several cups of hot tea.
Now, Miss Wiseacre, seeing that we have the frame, perhaps you will fulfil your promise of convincing me, once and for all, that yonder Rembrandt cannot possibly belong to me." "I am going to do so," Chris said, quietly. "You told me you had to cut the margin of your print by an inch or so round to fit that quaint old frame. So far as I can see, the print before you is quite intact.
"There you are!" shouted one wiseacre, "the corn in the granary was poisoned!" "And we borrowed of that very corn a fortnight ago to last us till harvest time." "Then now we'll pay them back with interest!" bellowed one of the rustics, fiercely flourishing a pitchfork.
Troubled as she was, Dolly laughed at the staid expression on her small, discreet face; but even as she laughed she caught the child in her arms and kissed her. "What should we do without you!" she exclaimed. "We need some one to keep us all straight, we Vagabonds; but it seems queer that such a small wiseacre as you should be our controlling power."
I overheard a sage, who was remarking: "Never has anybody acknowledged his own ignorance, excepting that person who, while another may be talking, and has not finished what he has to say, will begin speaking: A speech, O wiseacre! has a beginning and an end; bring not one speech into the middle of another.
If they did tell her, and Frank happened not to arrive, it might unnerve her so as to make her appearance in the evening doubtful. Richard, the wiseacre, the inexhaustible Richard, was caring for his cottagers and cutting the leaves of new books his chiefest pleasure at Greyhope.
ARTILLERYMAN. Heyday! you'll find you're a wiseacre yet. The above Two Yagers. Afterwards Sutler-woman, Soldier-boy, Schoolmaster, Servant-girl. FIRST YAGER. See! see! Here meet we a jovial company! TRUMPETER. Who can these greencoats be, I wonder, That strut so gay and sprucely yonder!
I have a Son too, whom I would fain have taught to gallant Fans, and should be glad to know what the Gentleman will have for teaching them both, I finding Fans for Practice at my own Expence. This Information will in the highest manner oblige, SIR, Your most humble Servant, William Wiseacre. To the SPECTATOR. The humble Petition of Benjamin Easie, Gent. Sheweth,
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