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"You have no right whatever to pass judgment upon my feelings." "Pardon me, but how can I help it? Perhaps you mean that if Bob left off slang and smoking he would be all right?" "And if I did, how would it concern you?" "Oh, merely that I think you ought to tell him, or let me." "You think he would do it?" "Like winkin'. Oh, I beg your pardon.
"I didn't sleep a wink, confound it," grumbled Beverly, rubbing her eyes and turning on her back to glare up at the tapestry above the couch. "Yo' wasn' winkin' any when Ah fust come into de room, lemme tell yo'," cackled Aunt Fanny with caustic freedom. "See here, now, Aunt Fanny, I'm not going to stand any lecture from you this morning. When a fellow hasn't slept a "
Indeed, their faces ain't onlike the moon in a gineral way; only one has got a man in it, and the other hain't always. It tante a bright face; you can look into it without winkin'. It's a cloudy one here too, especially in November; and most all the time makes you rather sad and solemncoly. Yes, John is a moony man, that's a fact, and at the full a little queer sometimes.
"Ta-ta, little silly goosey, and AU REVOIR!" "Mind he don't pitch you out of the cart, Polly!" "Good-bye, Polly, my duck, and remember I'll come to you in a winkin', h'if and when ..." which speech on the part of Mrs. Beamish distressed Polly to the verge of tears.
"As I looked up at him saying 'Yes, sir, I thought I saw him winkin' at his friend; but I could not be sure. "'Well, says he, 'be sure you put it under your bolster every night, it will keep the ald girl's claws aff ye. "And I got such a fright when he said that, you wouldn't fancy!
They had both discarded their tunics in favour of what they called blouses, loose holland garments like long Norfolk jackets, and Gerrard had exchanged his cap for a hat of white feathers lined with green, the precursor of the sun-helmet. "Good job we ain't in Khemistan. Old Harry Lennox would have court-martialled us like winkin'," said Charteris.
Before the end of the fourteenth century, paper-mills had been established in many parts of Europe, first in Spain, and then successively in Italy, Germany, Holland, and France. They seem to have come late into England, for Caxton printed all his books on paper imported from the Low Countries; and it was not till Winkin de Worde succeeded him, in 1495, that paper was manufactured in England.
"Did you ever toss a hunk of buffler meat to a hungry hound, and seen how nice he'd catch it in his jaws, and gulp it down without winkin', and then he'd lick his chops, and look up and whine for more. Wal, that's just the fix you folks are in. Lone Wolf and his men will swallow you down without winkin', and then be mad that there ain't somethin' left to squinch thar hunger."
"Fine for them," said Tam sarcastically, "they've nawthin' to do but be oot or in A've no patience wi' the stars puir silly bodies winkin' an' blinkin' an' doin' nae guid to mon or beastie chuck me ma breeches an' let the warm watter rin in the bath." In the gray light of dawn the reliefs stood on the ground, waiting for the word "go."
But you go out with a gas-pipe gun an' ketch the little peacockses or somethin'. You kin get one day's leave easy as winkin'. Go along an' get it, an' get peacockses or somethin'. 'Jock, said Mulvaney, turning to Learoyd, who was half asleep under the shadow of the bank. He roused slowly. 'Sitha, Mulvaaney, go, said he.
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