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That's 'ow they wykes you up at stand-to, or w'en your turn comes fer sentry. Not bad, wot?" I said that it all depended on whether one was doing the waking or the sleeping, and that, for my part, when sleeping, I would lie with my head out. "You wouldn't if you belonged to our lot. They'd give it to you on the napper just as quick as 'it you on the feet. You ain't on to the game, that's all.
Edward. Trivet, p. 162. T. Wykes, p. 37. Innocent beheld with regret the disturbances which had arisen in England, and was much inclined to favour John in his pretensions.
Mebbe 'e'll be better when 'e wykes up. 'E don't talk sense now, that's sure. If you arsk me, I sye 'e's balmy and no 'ope for 'im." Contradictory to the hopeful prognosis of Captain Stryker, his unaccredited passenger was not "better" when, after a period of oblivious rest indefinite in duration, he awoke.
I happened to meet him in the train yesterday; he was coming to spend a few days with his relatives. It occurs to me that he's the man to give us a lecture to-morrow evening." The others lent ear, and Mr. Wykes talked at some length of Mr. Denzil Quarrier, with whom he had a slight personal acquaintance dating from a year or two ago.
Shall I send him here?" "Mr. Wykes! What about, I wonder? Yes, let him come." A clumping was heard without, and the bright face of the Institute's Secretary, so strongly in contrast with his wretched body, presented itself in the doorway. Quarrier received him with a friendly consideration due rather to pity than to any particular interest in the man himself.
T. Wykes, p. 23. H. Hunt. p. 370. Hoveden, p. 460. M. West. p. 229. Flor. Wigorn. p. 641. Chron. Abb. de Petri de Burgo, p. 51. M. Paris, p. 8. The king was naturally a great economist; and though no prince had ever been more bountiful to his officers and servants, it was merely because he had rendered himself universal proprietor of England, and had a whole kingdom to bestow.
Chron. T. Wykes, p. 58. W. Heming, p. 580. Chron. T. Wykes, p. 58. He himself resided at London; and employing, as his instrument, Fitz-Richard, the seditious mayor, who had violently and illegally prolonged his authority, he wrought up that city to the highest ferment and agitation.
The draper tall, bearded, with goggle eyes and prominent cheek-bones had just rushed in; as soon as Mr. Wykes had spoken, he exclaimed in a hard, positive voice: "It's nothing! it's nothing! I have it on the best assurance that it was only a fall over a footstool. Muscles strained a bruise or two nothing worse." "I'm very glad to hear it, on every ground," said Wykes.
In Arabia the mother is generally addressed in this way as a mark of respect for having borne children, and the eldest gives the title. From a paper on "Comparative Folk-lore," by W. Goonetilleke, in The Orientalist, i., p. 122. Mery Tales, Wittie Questions, and Quicke Answeres, very pleasant to be Readde. Imprinted at London by H. Wykes, 1567.
You have heard that the other party are going to start a Society of their own?" "I have a Society with an imbecile Dame." He pondered. "Suppose I were to talk about 'The Position of Woman in our Time'?" "Capital, Mr. Quarrier! Couldn't be better, sir! Do permit me to announce it at once!" "It's rather a ticklish responsibility I'm undertaking but very well, I will do my best, Mr. Wykes.
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