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... save the blaz- ing torches and the melancholy apparatus placed on the al- tar or table before it. The doctor led the ladies, who greatly required his...

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...heavy job at tarring to be done, he is pitched neck and shoul- ders into a tar-barrel, and set to work at it. Moreover, he is made to fetch and carry... ...y that the circumscribed device was his. Folded, and sealed with a drop of tar, the Round Robin was directed to “The English Consul, Tahiti”; and, han... ... its legitimate results. The 94 Omoo boy becomes, in time, a thoroughbred tar, equally ready to strip and take a dozen on board his own ship, or, cut... ...make a man a seaman, he should be put to no other duty. Indeed, a thorough tar is unfit for anything else; and what is more, this fact is the best evi... ...snatched from his hands, and passed round, like a jovial decanter. The old tar had com- plained of the effects of an immoderate eating of fruit. Upon ... ...indiscriminately inflicted. The missionaries have prepared a sort of penal tar- iff to facilitate judicial proceedings. It costs so many days’ labour ... ...rican sailor is generally distin- guished by his red frock; and an English tar by his blue one: thus reversing the national colours. The circumstance ...

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...translation of “hinc illae lachrimae,” or the num- ber of products of coal tar. He awed Babbitt by confess- ing that he often sat up till midnight rea... ...is “I know, old man.” “I ought to have been a fiddler, and I’m a pedler of tar- roofing! And Zilla—Oh, I don’t want to squeal, but you know as well as... ...th gigantic wire-glass windows, surly old red-brick factories stained with tar, high-perched water-tanks, big red trucks like locomotives, and, on a s... ... and an interestingly unhappy husband, he was also a very able salesman of tar-roofing. He listened to the fat man’s remarks on “the value of house-or... ... and automobiles, and some- where about third in cheese, leather findings, tar roofing, breakfast food, and overalls! “‘Our greatness, however, lies n... ...withered, was Paul Riesling, and Paul was supposed to be in Akron, selling tar-roofing. The woman was tapping his hand, mooning at him and giggling. B... ... doggone good and well that you and her weren’t 220 Babbitt talking about tar-roofing, no, nor about playing the vio- lin, neither! If you haven’t go... ...cied him (rescued from prison, from Zilla and the brisk exactitudes of the tar-roofing business) playing his violin at the end of the canoe. He vowed,... ...here all morning getting hot and dusty, and no wonder he wants to beat the tar out of those sons of guns!” Gunch said nothing, and watched; and Babbit...

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...ue with a tang, Would cry to a sailor, Go hang! She loved not the savor of tar nor of pitch, Yet a tailor might scratch her where’er she did itch: The...

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...thing,—streamed out. “They know that flag, sir,” said the good-natured old tar, quite solemnly, in the evening afterwards:“they respect it, sir. ”The ... ...The sword of the last-named famous corsair (a most truculent little scimi- tar), thousands of pikes and halberts, little old cannons and wall-pieces, ... ...d-like, impar- tial, stony Athenaeum. Misseri, the faithful and chivalrous Tar- tar, is transformed into the most quiet and gentlemanlike of landlords...

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...90 Would cry to a Sailor goe hang: 1091 She lou’d not the sauour of Tar nor of Pitch, 1092 Yet a Tailor might scratch her where ere she did...

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... lawless hollies. “D’you remember the old maid in ‘Providence and the Gui- tar’ who heard the Commissary swear, and hardly reckoned herself a maiden l... ...’t think we’re careless about our earthstoppers. We’ve a Hunt fund for hot tar. Tar’s a splendid dressing if the toe-nails aren’t beaten off. But hunt...

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...Madame Guillaume. Some few months after this memorable Sunday the high al- tar of Saint-Leu was the scene of two very different wed- dings. Augustine ...

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... signal for the populace of Bos ton to assemble in the street. Before the tar barrels, of which the bonfire was made, were half burned out, a great c... ...im show his white wig among us an hour hence, and we’ll give him a coat of tar and feathers!” The chief justice, however, knew that he need fear no vi...

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...him a friendly look. “Good day , Kotkildy ,” said Butler, repeating the Tar- tar greeting he had learnt. “Saubul!” (“Be well!”) replied Hadji Mu...

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...e worsted hose instead of boots, had his gloveless hands much stained with tar, and observed an air of deference and respect towards his com- panion, ... ... wise than weel wi’ Grace Armstrong, I’se gie you a scouther if there be a tar-barrel in the five parishes.” So saying, he rode off; and Elshie, after...

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...important, but they had been known to generations of school-boys as Sighs, Tar, Winks, Squirts, and Pat. They all knew Tom Perkins. The first thing ab... ...is success at other schools and serving under his leadership in their own. Tar had fre- quently given him lines, and Squirts had boxed his ears. They ... ...ly . But conversation halted. They were too much disturbed for words. When Tar and Sighs were walking together to the Chapter House on Speech-Day a we... ...ghs were walking together to the Chapter House on Speech-Day a week later, Tar, who had a bitter tongue, remarked to his colleague: “ Well, we’ve seen... ... favour , but after all it was a favour which could not be refused, and as Tar, otherwise Mr. T urner, said, it was undig- nified for all parties. He ... ...e than an ability to read Latin at sight. Then they fell into the hands of Tar. His name was T urner; he was the most vivacious of the old masters, a ... .... In his clerical dress there was indeed some- thing in him to suggest the tar -barrel; and though on principle he gave five hundred lines to any boy ... ...et Maugham I thought it wasn’t worth while to spoil the ship for a coat of tar. ” “If you feel happy and comfortable I don’t mind a bit about the expe... ...in front of that in which things useful to seamen were sold, sea-boots and tar- paulins and tackle, and remembered that he had felt there in his child...