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Updated: May 15, 2025
"We want something we can get our teeth into. No, we expect a khakur from you." "What's a khakur?" asked Frank. "It's the muntjac or barking deer," replied Dermot. "You wouldn't know it if you haven't shot in forests. It gets its English name from its call, which is not unlike a dog's bark." "Whin ye hear one saying 'Wonk!
But that bull, stretch himself all he could, couldn't gain an inch on Shorty, and Shorty couldn't gain an inch on the bull, till the bull come to the other end of the forty-foot rope, and then, whang! up goes the heels of the bull and down goes his head, and his heels comes over wonk! and hits Shorty right square on the head.
What about bacon and eggs, and some tins of cocoa and milk, and a cake and some sardines " "Wonk," interrupted the caterer, "we're only going to have tea ashore. We aren't going to camp out for the week-end." "I tell you what," said Mouldy Jake's patron, "I'll bring my line and we'll catch pollack and fry them for tea too."
So my Betty sits down and braces herself for the tug. "In the meantime little Shorty, he sits up and lays a hand to his head, and same time he sees that bull come tarin' for him. Up he jumps. And jest then the bull come to the end of the line and wonk! down he goes, head over heels, and hits the sand with a bang that must of jostled his liver some, I'll be sayin'!
What are you going to do, Harcourt?" "Me and Mordy are going to attrapay the wily trout," was the reply. "He's going to spend part of the leave with me, and I'm going to spend part with him. We're going to clean out the pond at his place. Topping rag." "And you, Wonk?" "Cricket," was the reply. "And strawberries. Chiefly strawberries." "What about you, Bosh?"
Wonk! in the jungle, Wargrave, get up the nearest tree; for the khakur is warning all whom it may concern that there's a tiger in the immajit vicinity." Frank had already learned to distrust most of Burke's statements on sport, for the doctor was an inveterate joker. So he looked to the Political Officer for confirmation. "Yes, it's supposed to be the case," agreed the Colonel.
"What are you going to do on leave?" queried the tall sandy-haired Midshipman popularly known as "Wonk." "Do?" echoed Matthews. "Do?" He allowed his imagination full rein for a moment. "Well," he said, "by way of a start I shall make my soldier brother take me to dinner somewhere where there's a band and fairies in low-necked dresses with diamond ta-rarras on their heads."
I had my victories, but they were always followed by a series of defeats. I would have a manuscript accepted by an editor. Let the thing go on." I would send him off another manuscript. He would take it. Victory, by Jove! Then wonk! Back would come my third effort with the curtest of refusals.
All morning he had gone about his errands very calmly, playing the man of action, in a new philosophy learned overnight. But now he forgot to imitate his teacher, and darted in, so headlong that all the dogs came with him, bouncing and barking. "Look," he called, stumbling toward the farther window, while Flounce the terrier and a wonk puppy ran nipping at his heels. "Come, look at them!
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