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He had scarcely spoken before there were half-a-dozen throbs of flame in the mist behind, and as many balls sung among our rigging. One cut away the end of the yard, and left it dangling; another grazed the bowsprit, and sent a puff of white splinters into the air. 'Warm work, Captain, eh? said old Silas, rubbing his hands. 'Zounds, they shoot better in the dark than ever they did in the light.
I have not seen him since. Waiter, a 'bock." A waiter brought him his "bock," which he swallowed at a gulp. But, in taking up his pipe again, trembling as he was, he broke it. Then he made a violent gesture: "Zounds! This is indeed a grief, a real grief. I have had it for a month, and it was coloring so beautifully!"
She drew back, and looking him full in the eyes, she exclaimed: "Then you have been in M. de Valorsay's confidence, sir? Would you be willing to swear that you never helped him in his designs?" A silent and ignored witness of this scene, Victor Chupin was secretly delighted. "Hit!" he thought "hit just in the bull's-eye. Zounds! there's a woman for you! She has beaten the guv'nor on every point."
They say that a good rider makes a good horse; they ought to say that a good master makes a good workman. Zounds! when I think of that fellow!" cried Sleepinbuff, striking his hand violently on the table. "Come, Jacques think of something else!" said the Bacchanal Queen. "Make him laugh, Rose-Pompon."
At these words Mr. Morton stayed his hand, the whip fell to the ground. "Yet it is all for the boy's good," he muttered. "There, child, I hope this is the last time. There, you are not much hurt. Zounds, don't cry so!" "He will alarm the whole street," said Mrs. Morton; "I never see such a child! Here, take this parcel to Mrs.
John yielded his shoulder to the push his father gave him towards the door, but suddenly turning back, "Zounds! father, a fortnight!" he exclaimed: "why there won't be time to buy even boots!" "And what are even boots," replied his father, "to such a man as you? Go, go, man; your legs are better than all the boots in the world." Flattery can find her way to soothe the dullest, coldest ear alive.
"What! is it you, Sir Thomas Metcalfe?" cried the squire. "Do you commit such outrages as this do you break into habitations like a robber, rifle them, and murder their inmates? Explain yourself, sir, or I will treat you as I would a common plunderer; shoot you through the head, or hang you to the first tree if I take you." "Zounds and fury!" rejoined Metcalfe.
My Lady Castlemaine, I hear, is in as great favour as ever, and the King supped with her the very first night he came from Bath: and last night and the night before supped with her; when there being a chine of beef to roast, and the tide rising into their kitchen that it could not be roasted there, and the cook telling her of it, she answered, "Zounds! she must set the house on fire but it should be roasted!"
With a sweep the speaker brought the flat side of his sword down. But, if perchance, he thought that the boy would await the blow he found surprise for that worthy skillfully evaded the weapon's downward thrust. Now then was Sir Pellimore doubly wroth. "Od's zounds, and you need a trouncing. And so shall I give it you, else my dignity would not hold its place."
I would not turn my back on her, but face her manfully. Look at her picture, Dick. Was ever countenance sweeter than hers lips more tempting, or eyes more melting! Is she not adorable? Zounds!" he exclaimed, suddenly pausing, and staring at the portrait "Would you believe it, Dick? The fair Isole winked at me I'll swear she did.
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