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"It was through that fiend's having killed Hallijohn; that was what brought the ban upon me." "It's a most extraordinary thing, if anybody else did kill him, that the facts can't be brought to light," retorted Miss Carlyle. "Here you tell a cock-and-bull story of some man's having done it, some Thorn; but nobody ever saw or heard of him, at the time or since. It looks like a made-up story, Mr.
Other strangers who draw nigh to this Patagonia termination of our Continent, with their souls full of its shipwrecks and disasters top-sails cautiously reefed, and everything guardedly snug these strangers at first unexpectedly encountering a tolerably smooth sea, rashly conclude that the Cape, after all, is but a bugbear; they have been imposed upon by fables, and founderings and sinkings hereabouts are all cock-and-bull stories.
And you mean to tell me that the sacred truth would not endear you to your child far more than the usual cock-and-bull story about the doctor and the gooseberry-bush? A friend of mine has three boys of widely opposite character and temperament. Owing to circumstances, the eldest lad had to be sent to school at an early age. Young as he was, she resolved to follow Dr.
I don't take no more stock in that cock-and-bull story about the lost Mexican mine. I don't catch on to that Sunday-school yarn about the pious, scientific sharp who collected leaves and vegetables all over the Divide, all the while he scientifically knew that the range was solid silver, only he wouldn't soil his fingers with God-forsaken lucre.
They couldn't come out without a story of some kind with the whole world expecting a death in that cabin so they framed a crazy cock-and-bull story about being brothers. I can hear them say that, Donnegan, and it makes me wild!" "Do you call me Donnegan?" said Donnegan sadly. "No, no. Garry, don't be so touchy. You've never got over that, I see. Still all pride and fire."
Among others to whom he told this cock-and-bull story was a clergyman who came to the prison to visit Valentine Morris, the ex-governor of St. Vincent, who was then one of the inmates; and he succeeded in persuading the unsuspecting divine to visit the Duke of Rutland, and lay his case before him as that of a near relative.
"Humph!" ejaculated Buck, "didn't I tell you not to trouble Roarin' Bull that he and his boys could lick you if you had been twenty instead of ten. But how came ye to hear o' this cock-and-bull story about the Redskins?" "We got it from Hunky Ben, an' he's not the boy to go spreadin' false reports."
"If Jean didn't tell you this cock-and-bull yarn, how would you know anything about it?" "I am not lying, Ben Stubbles. There were eyes watching your every action that night on Long Wharf; there were ears listening to what you said, and but for these hands of mine Jean Benton would be dead, and you would now be arrested for murdering her." "You! You heard, and saw, and saved her!"
"You don't mean to tell me that the bank people have set about that cock-and-bull story of repudiated checks? I told them they were wrong. I thought they understood." "Ay, you told them they were wrong; but your wife told them they were right at least, that's how the story goes. The boy altered her checks, and robbed his grandfather if you call it robbing.
Whether it was the “captain’s” excited face, or the foolish conviction of the “rake and spendthrift,” that he, Samsonov, could be taken in by such a cock-and-bull story as his scheme, or his jealousy of Grushenka, in whose name this “scapegrace” had rushed in on him with such a tale to get money which worked on the old man, I can’t tell.
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