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Irving took the offered hand, and answered, good humoredly: "That would punish the innocent as well as the guilty, so I am not with you there, though, like you, I recoil in horror from the perpetration of that fiendish attack upon peaceable troops. I was there myself, and did what I could to quiet the tumult, receiving more than one brickbat for my interference.
Even down by the lake, where the huge white many-storeyed palace contemplates its dark-latticed windows and high balconies mirrored in still water unimaginably blue nothing which could be described as energy is visible. You may see an elephant kneeling placidly in the lake while an attendant polishes up his trunk and his forehead with a brickbat.
The old negro preacher rose, too, a little behind Jim Pink. "Now, boys! boys!" he placated. "You jes think dat, Persimmon." "Yeah," admitted Persimmon, "I jes think it; but ef I b'lieve ever'thing is so whut I think is so, I'd part Jim Pink's wool wid a brickbat." Parson Ranson tried to make peace, but the Persimmon spread his hands in a gesture that included the three men.
If these are some of the beauties of brickwork, I pray you have me excused. If you have anything better to offer, go ahead, I'm open to conviction; would rather be knocked down by an argument than a brickbat any time. Mrs. John says she doesn't care a straw about bricks, and hopes you won't spend much time talking about them.
When we ride forty miles, at an expense of at least ten dollars, extras not included, to hear a couple of itinerant Dutchmen torture a brace of unoffending instruments into fits, until the very spirit of music howls in sympathy, if some one will cave in our head with a brickbat, we will feel greatly obliged.
He is trying to behave well, and I am sure we could help him. Can't we?" All the boys looked sober, and Joe, otherwise Brickbat, said, bluntly, "I won't. He's a bad lot, and we don't want any such here. Let him go with chaps of his own sort." "That is just what I want to keep him from!
Some time after, dreadful yells were heard in the street: the mob had attacked them on their return from the barrack Major Eustace being now in coloured clothes, they did not recognise him as an officer. They had struck Mr. Edgeworth with a brickbat in the neck, and as they were now, just in front of the inn, collaring the major, Mr.
But this was the fancy of a passing moment, for I was waiting for the big fellow to speak. He did speak, and rather spoiled the impression. "What'n the hell kind of a dump is this anyway?" he exploded. I was hit as with a brickbat, but I tried not to show it.
I wish the reader would prepare himself an object lesson as to how little life can be supported on for any length of time, by procuring a piece of corn bread the size of an ordinary brickbat, and a thin slice of pork, and then imagine how he would fare, with that as his sole daily ration, for long hungry weeks and months.
Their memories had been stocked, but not their understandings. It was a case of brickbat culture, pure and simple. There are several curious "compositions" in the little book, and we must make room for one. Girls are very stuck up and dignefied in their maner and be have your. They think more of dress than anything and like to play with dowls and rags.
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