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I'd rayther have a dog behind barking than a chap singing like that. I hates singing." "I've been to Paris and I've been to Dover." "Look here," said Ike; "I shall just draw to one side and wait till he've gone by. Steady, Bony; woa, lad! Now he may go on, and sing all the way to Dover if he likes."
The little cabin had the utterly forlorn look of a house that has long been unoccupied. "Woa there! Stand still, can't you?" said Sharp, tugging at the reins. "A tidy pull, that last bit," said Frank. "Trail's very bad." "Stand still, you brute! Wait a minute, Mrs. Taylor." "I guess she wants to get home."
Drawing up the gig with a "Woa!" he had invited the old clergyman to a lift by his side on the gig's seat, which was cushioned with a sack of hay. The parson had accepted the invitation, and with a preliminary "Aisy!
"Woa, Bony!" roared Ike with such vehemence that the horse stopped short, and there, kneeling on the top of the high load of baskets, we could dimly see a well-known figure, straw-hat and all. "You want me to come down, an' 'it you?" he cried, writhing. "Here, give me that whip," cried Ike fiercely. "How did you come there?" "Got up," said Shock sulkily. "Who told you to come?" "No one.
At last the drunken man said something which startled him so much that he instinctively drew himself together with such suddenness as to frighten the horse and almost make him rear up straight. 'Woa! Woa! Steady, boy. Gently! he said, quieting him. Then turning to his companion said in a voice hollow with emotion and vibrant with suppressed passion: 'What was it you said?
Instantly I remembered my running-bag, and flew upstairs to get it, escaping just in time from the scene which followed on the gallery which was afterwards most humorously described to me. Walters, trying to scale the carriage, was pulled out by Uncle Will, who shouted to his plunging horses first, then to the other unreasoning creatures, "Woa, there! 'Tain't safe! Take to the fields!
There are several varieties, including L. japonicum microphyllum, with smaller leaves than the parent; and one with tricoloured foliage and named L. japonicum variegatum. Shining-leaved Privet, or Woa Tree. China, 1794. A pretty evergreen species, with oval leaves, and terminal, thyrsoid panicles of white flowers.
She was standing in the middle of the room and watched him go out, smiling at him and nodding her head in a friendly way. As he got near the door he saw a handsome, stoutly built, dark man in a bowler hat and in leather gaiters. This must have been the lady's escort. "Woa!" he heard from the yard. At the front door Yegorushka saw a splendid new carriage and a pair of black horses.
I said 'Woa, and he stopped, so gradually that my equilibrium was not seriously disturbed; he trotted, and still I accommodated myself to his movements without any positive inconvenience. I could have embraced him for gratitude: never before had I been upon a beast whose paces were so easy, whose behaviour was so considerate.
Why was not the "off ox" called the "in ox?" Where and what is the reason for this distinction in names, when there is none in the things themselves? After initiating me into the "woa," "back" "gee," "hither" the entire spoken language between oxen and driver Mr.
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