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I, myself, my boy, have come through fire, water, and copper pipes. TISHKA. I know you did. TISHKA. Ha, just try it! I'll sure tell, honest to goodness I will. PODKHALYÚZIN. What are you going to tell, you devil's pepper-pot? TISHKA. What'll I say? Why, that you scold! PODKHALYÚZIN. Great impression that'll make! You're quite a gentleman! Come here, sir! Has Sysóy Psoich been here?
"I've no idea, unless Lord Kitchener is about to pay us a visit. There were rumors of it, a week or so ago." "Guess again. It's a mightier than Lord Kitchener, this time." "Can't be." Weldon laughed. "It is, for it is a man trained to two weapons, who has beaten his kettles into a helmet and his pepper-pot into a cartridge-box." "Paddy?" "Yes, Paddy.
"Well, wait until your trusty right hand is healed before you try garroting anybody," she suggested dryly. "Suppose you cool off, Mr. Pepper-pot, and tell me more about this terrible menace?" "You are interested really?" "I could be made to listen without interrupting you, if you could bring yourself to cease glaring at me with those terrible chile-con-carne eyes.
Malay krisses, double-handed Chinese execution swords; old pepper-pot revolvers, such as may still be found on the African coast; knob-kerries, assegais, steel-spiked balls swinging from whips of raw hide; weapons wild and savage and primitive as those with which Attila drove before him the hordes of the Huns, and modern weapons of to-day and yesterday; the big elephant gun which has been supplanted by the express rifle; the deadly magazine rifle, the latest products of Schaunard of the Rue de la Paix and Westley Richards of London.
He is a governor, and sometimes goes there, and I suppose asked about you, and heard so. 'I never thought of that; of course that's it! cried Vava; and then they met the other two and lunched together. 'Have some pepper? said Eva suddenly, and produced a quaint little pepper-pot from her bag. 'Is this another piece of furniture? demanded Stella, smiling. 'Yes, it cost a halfpenny, said Eva.
"Ef it be you uns as takes the aigs," she murmured thoughtfully, "a kittle o' bilin' water to yer backs ain't none too bad fer ye! But ef it be only my old herrin'-tub ye're after, then bilin' water's too ha'sh!" In the end, the weapon she decided upon was the big tin pepper-pot, well loaded. Through the twilight, while the yard was all in shadow, Mrs.
He exercised his pastoral ministry with piety, governed his clergy with wisdom, taught the people, and feared not to remind the great of Justice and Moderation. He was liberal, profuse in almsgiving, and set aside for the poor the greater part of his wealth. His castle proudly lifted its crenelated walls and pepper-pot roofs from the summit of a hill overlooking the town.
Soon a sort of cylindrical box, in shape like a pepper-pot, with a pointed roof, rose on the spot chosen. The four frames which formed the sails had been firmly fixed in the center beam, so as to form a certain angle with it, and secured with iron clamps.
"I don't care to go into any further details, because some of you well-meaning friends of mine might suggest to Mr. ahem ha well, never mind his name that he should return the pepper-pot, and I know that that is what he would do if he were familiar with the facts that I have just narrated." It was at about this point that the gathering broke up, and, after our cigars, Holmes and I left the club.
The statement as to the length of the planters' dinners is probably an accurate one, for I myself have been the recipient of Barbadian hospitality, and had never before even imagined such an endless procession of fish, flesh, and fowl, not to mention turtle, land-crabs, and pepper-pot.
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