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Updated: August 15, 2024
"How much powder have you, Bill?" Jack asked. "Four twenty-pound cans." "Let us let off ten pounds at a time," Jack said. "Just damp it enough to prevent it from flashing off too suddenly; break up fine some of this damp wood and mix with it, it will add to the smoke."
It was all the change out of a twenty-pound note which dear old Binnie gave me before we set out, with a quotation out of Horace, you know, about Neque tu choreas sperne puer. O me! how guilty I felt as I walked home at ever so much o'clock to the Hotel de la Terrasse, and sneaked into our apartment! But the Colonel was sound asleep.
This is done so that no one unit will become too much at home in any one line of trenches and so get careless. This moving about involves a good deal of hiking. Now if some chap happens to get a twenty-pound box of good things just before he is shifted, he's going to be in an embarrassing position. He'll have to give it away or leave it. So send the boxes two or three pounds at a time, and often.
If my wife that is to be wants anything in the way of new clothes, I shall be happy to put down a twenty-pound note or I'd go as far as thirty towards 'em." Ellen shook her head impatiently. "I want nothing new," she said; "I have as many things as I care to have."
Because, you jade, you've all but driven a twenty-pound rooster clean through it beak, spurs and tail feathers that's why!" bawled the doctor. "Gad! I shall be black and blue for a fortnight! I'm colicky now: I need a mustard-plaster!" "Two mustard-plasters," I insisted severely: "one on your tongue and the other on your temper!" "Temper?" flared the doctor, and flung up his arms. "Temper?
The next day, Wood asked for change for a twenty-pound bill. Hayes said he had but three guineas. And, when asked by Catherine where the money was that was paid the day before, said that it was at the banker's. "The man is going to fly," said Wood; "that is sure: if he does, I know him he will leave his wife without a shilling."
"My late brother, Hugh Fraser Johnstone, of Delhi and Calcutta, has sent me his own last instructions and orders. I have here the last receipt for the stipend which ye have been allowed and, I'm duly following his orders, when I give ye this check for the six months that has yet too to run. "And-look ye here! A twenty-pound note to take ye back to Geneva!
It only occurred to me after Bert told me about it, that I ain't been in the house alone for years." He ordered some more beer, and, drawing Mr. Chase to a bench, sat down to a long and steady argument. It shook his faith in human nature to find that his friend estimated the affair as a twenty-pound job, but he was in no position to bargain.
Barnabas had a huge twenty-pound iron club in his hand; grinding his teeth, and with eyes darting fire, he seemed capable of meeting single-handed the whole troop. He was followed by the widow, with two loaded pistols in her hand, and old Simon, who entreated them not to use violence or exasperate the enemy. "Conduct yourselves bravely!" replied the widow dryly; "let us not die in vain."
"That's a better sort of strength than swinging twenty-pound dumb-bells or running races; I guess I'll try for that kind, too, and not howl or let her see me squirm when the doctor hurts," thought the boy, as he saw that gentle face so pale and tired with much watching and anxiety, yet so patient, serene, and cheerful, that it was like sunshine.
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