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If I am a little strange it is probably due to lack of sleep, nothing more." "Ye see, Peter, I tried so 'ard to kill 'ee, an' you said yourself as I come nigh doin' it " "But then, you didn't quite manage it," I cried harshly "would to God you had; as it is, I am alive, and there's an end of it." "'Twere a woundy blow I give 'ee that last one!
A member of the House with whom he was in touch, being one of that speculative party who opened the New Year at Chamberlin's with cards, was so conveniently good-natured as to offer a measure putting coal on the free list. This, if passed, would be a woundy blow to the Harley mines; also to that railway whereof Mr. Harley was a director, since it hauled the Harley coal to the seaboard.
Tomlinson answered by some cabalistic word; the door was opened, and a little boy presented himself. "Well, my lad," said Augustus, "and how is your master? Stout and hearty, if I may judge by his voice." "Ay, Master Tommy, ay, he's boosing away at a fine rate, in the back- parlour, with Mr. Pepper and Fighting Attie, and half-a-score more of them. He'll be woundy glad to see you, I'll be bound."
"I'd overhaul some of his letters. Steam will loosen a wafer, and a hot knife-blade, wax. I'd overhaul his money-letters and pay myself. Ha! ha! do you take? Now, that letter you've got in your fin, my boy, looks woundy like a dokiment chock full of shinplasters. What do you say to making prize of 'em? wouldn't it be a jolly go?"
"Noa, to be sure, Sir; the will was a woundy long one, and Maister Oswald there told me it was no use to read it over to me, but merely to sign, as a witness to Sir William's handwriting." "Enough: you may retire;" and George Davis vanished. "Mr. Oswald," said I, approaching the attorney, "I may wrong you, and if so, I am sorry for it, but I suspect there has been foul practice in this deed.
I was frightened by a species of fit which I had in February, which took from me my power of speaking. I am told it is from the stomach. It looked woundy like palsy or apoplexy. Well, be it what it will, I can stand it. May 27. Court as usual. I am agitating a proposed retirement from the Court.
Tomlinson answered by some cabalistic word; the door was opened, and a little boy presented himself. "Well, my lad," said Augustus, "and how is your master? Stout and hearty, if I may judge by his voice." "Ay, Master Tommy, ay, he's boosing away at a fine rate, in the back-parlour, with Mr. Pepper and Fighting Attie, and half-a-score more of them. He'll be woundy glad to see you, I'll be bound."
"Noa, to be sure, Sir; the will was a woundy long one, and Maister Oswald there told me it was no use to read it over to me, but merely to sign, as a witness to Sir William's handwriting." "Enough: you may retire;" and George Davis vanished. "Mr. Oswald," said I, approaching the attorney, "I may wrong you, and if so, I am sorry for it, but I suspect there has been foul practice in this deed.
I have a huge cur'osity to see her," said Wright, feigning more rusticity of manner and more simplicity than was natural to him. "I have, truly, a woundy cur'osity to see her, I've heard so much of her, even down in Lincolnshire." "The Romp! Odds! Is that her best character? Why, now, to my notion, bad's the best, if that be the best of her characters. The Romp! Odds so!
Quoth he, looking down at his swollen wrists: "Do we go free then, Roger?" "Aye, master though ye had a woundy knock upon the head." "And what of Giles?" "He is away to get him arrows to fill his quiver, and to fill his purse with what he may, for the dead lie thick in the road yonder, and there is much plunder." "And Walkyn?"
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