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"For there's many a girl, as I know well, A-looking for you in the town," Beth concluded, her spirits rising uproariously. "Beth!" her mother remonstrated, but with a smile. "The worst of it is, the ones on the look-out are not the ones with the good looks," the doctor observed, also smiling. "But they are the ones with the money," Beth rejoined.
"`Meanwhile the brig overhauled us fast, and old Nesbitt kept a-looking round at her every two or three minutes. At last he says to the mate, "Take the wheel a bit," and he goes first and looks over the quarter.
"Just then a little rascal stuck a hot iron into him, and off he ran in the flames, 'cacheing' on the cool side of a big chunk of fire, a-looking at us for water; but I cared no more for him than the Pawnee whose scalp was tucked in my belt for stealing my horses on Coon Creek; and I said:
The old man was the oracle of the village on all matters secular as well as those connected with his calling. "Well," he said, "what you wants is a nice pretty little cow, not a great big beast as'll stand a-looking and a-staring at you all day long."
'He'll come back, I suppose? murmured Lightwood. 'Ay! and go through with it, murmured Eugene. He came back after a very short interval indeed. 'Gaffer's out, and his boat's out. His daughter's at home, sitting a-looking at the fire. But there's some supper getting ready, so Gaffer's expected. I can find what move he's upon, easy enough, presently.
He was surveying the airless parlor rather heavily, and his curt manner was not pleasing to the head of the house of Zapp, who remarked, funereally: "It ain't taken just now, Mist' Wrenn, but Ah dunno. There was a gennulman a-looking at it just yesterday, and he said he'd be permanent if he came.
Then he give a kind of a coughing groan, Carver said, and come inside the Pullman there wasn't no other passengers that night in the Pullman and plumped himself down on a seat anyways, a-looking as white as a clean paper collar; and for a while he just set there, like he had a pain.
Lors!" added Bob, laying down his pack on the gravel, "it's a thousand pities such a lady as you shouldn't deal with a packman, i' stead o' goin' into these newfangled shops, where there's half-a-dozen fine gents wi' their chins propped up wi' a stiff stock, a-looking like bottles wi' ornamental stoppers, an' all got to get their dinner out of a bit o' calico; it stan's to reason you must pay three times the price you pay a packman, as is the nat'ral way o' gettin' goods, an' pays no rent, an' isn't forced to throttle himself till the lies are squeezed out on him, whether he will or no.
I noticed the window was up; so he had clumb in by the shed. He kept a-looking me all over. By and by he says: "Starchy clothes very. You think you're a good deal of a big-bug, DON'T you?" "Maybe I am, maybe I ain't," I says. "Don't you give me none o' your lip," says he. "You've put on considerable many frills since I been away. I'll take you down a peg before I get done with you.
When Zachariah came to himself he was in a large, long, whitewashed room, with twenty beds or more in it. A woman in a greyish check dress was standing near him. "Where am I?" he said. "Where are yer?" she said; "why, in the workus infirmary, to be sure, with me a-looking after yer. Where would yer be?" Zachariah relapsed and was still. The next time he opened his eyes the woman had left him.
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