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"Plenty of paddies on all the streams about here," replied the native. "And they can't oondershtand Kilkenny Greek! They're moighty quare paddies, thin." "They are; and I am very sure they won't answer you when you speak to them with that brogue," added Louis. "We will let that discussion rest till we come to the paddies," interposed the captain, as he completed his toilet, and left the cabin.
So bashful the Widow Malone. Till one Mister O'Brien from Clare, How quare! It's little for blushin' they care Down there; Put his arm round her waist, Gave ten kisses at laste, "Oh," says he, "you're my Molly Malone, My own; Oh," says he, "you're my Molly Malone." And the widow they all thought so shy, My eye! Ne'er thought of a simper or sigh, For why?
"Sure, that's jist like yersilf, Miss Mattie!" exclaimed Rosa, with a faint, merry little laugh. "An' quare enough, I knew a lady once't of the very name, in the ould country. Miss Gloriana O'Dowd she was; an' the beauty o' County Kerry. My Lady Kinawley, she came to be. 'Deed, but I'd like to do it, for the ould times, an' for you thinkin' of it! I'll ask Peter, anyhow!"
Old Donald Finch looked at his visitor in speechless amazement. At length Long John grew excited. "Man alive!" he exclaimed, "it's a quare father you are. You may be thinking it disgrace, but the section will be proud that there is a boy in it brave enough to stand up for the weak against a brute bully."
It 'ud be a quare thing to go afore your Maker an' you stinkin' wi' drink!" The men went on, leaving Sheila and Henry together. She stood watching the men, oblivious seemingly of Henry's presence, until he put out his hand and touched hers. "Sheila!" he said. She snatched her hand away from him. "Lave me alone!" she exclaimed, and moved to the side of the road further from him.
And, in our mind, though far inferior as a moralist to the Stoics, Aristotle is often less of a pagan than Paley. Coleridge's dislike to Sir Sidney Smith and the Egyptian Lord Hutchinson fell under the category of Martial's case. 'Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare, Hoc solum novi non amo te, Sabidi.
I expect you'll find him quare and altered, even after one week of prison, Bet." Bet's face brightened, "I'm glad that you, too, understand Will," she said. "I knew that the prison would kill my lad. He's free now." "And why arn't you with him, honey?
They were next wrapped in dark blue clothes, in peasant fashion, and turbans wound round their heads. Hossein then, examining them critically, announced that they would pass muster anywhere. "I feel mighty quare," Tim exclaimed; "and it seems to me downright ondacent, to be walking about with my naked legs." Charlie laughed.
"Ain't she?" returned Mandy enthusiastically, as Johnnie of the "quare notions" helped Mavity Bence upstairs with the one small trunk belonging to Laurella. "Look out for that trunk, Johnnie," came her mother's caution, with a girlish ripple of laughter in the tones. "Hit's a borried one. Now don't you roach up and git mad.
I do be tired listenin' to it in the night sometimes." "Sure there's ne'er a dhrop of say-wather nearer us, ma'am, than the place you're after quittin' out of," said Judy Ryan, "it's the quare whillaloo it 'ud have to be risin' before we'd hear it that far."
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