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Sim Squires spat out the name contemptuously and laughed with a short hyena bark of derision. "Thet woods-colt from God-knows-whar? Him thet goes hand in glove with Bas Rowlett an' leans on his arm ter git married? Hell!" Aaron took refuge in studied silence, but into his eyes had come a new and dangerously smouldering darkness.
Say, you woods-colt with the humps on your shoulders and a stalk-knife by your side, help drive these hogs into the Ohio River. They've got more devils in 'em than what's-his-name, in the Holy Scripture, cast into all the swine of Jerusalem. Git out, I say, you knock-kneed jackasses!" Loquacity was Byle's riches, but he could transmute speech into action.
A choleric or fretful person is tetchious. To disfurnish or disconfit means to incommode: "I hope it has not disconfit you very bad." To shamp means to shingle or trim one's hair. A bastard is a woods-colt or an outsider. Critter and beast are usually restricted to horse and mule, and brute to a bovine.
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