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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...

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...oachman, too, was old—an ancient, ancient old man with a constant smell of tar and cart-oil about him. His beard began just below the 110 Virgin Soil... ... face, no more pushing and shoving, no more stench of spirits, sheep-skin, tar, nor leather… . He was again sitting beside Pavel in the cart, struggli... ...ves over the tops of the grass and made the trees rustle. A whiff of coal, tar, and tallow was borne along from the yard, but the noise and rattling i...

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...magination as if the ghost of her husband arose between them in his bloody tar- tans, and laying his finger on his lips, appeared to prohibit the topi... ...mbarrassed; “I may wear the breacan [That which is variegated—that is, the tar- tan.] at the gate of Fort-Augustus, if I like it.” “Oh, be not too dar... ...cealed her from view. As she approached more closely, her mantle of bright tar- tan, in which the red colour much predominated, her stat- ure, the lon...

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...cess—prob ably set the table’s legs in pans of water, or drew a circle of tar around the cup, I don’t remember. At any rate, he watched to see what t... ... can safely be war ranted to wash. Whenever we have been furnished with a tar baby ostensibly stuffed with jewels, and warned that it will be dishono... ...belief in him cannot come swiftly, disbelief in a healthy and deeply loved tar baby has never been known to disintegrate swiftly; it is a very slow pr...

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... sat on a spar, very busy splicing a strop, and dipping his fingers into a tar-pot, as if utterly unaware of their existence. When I returned in comma...

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... hour’s start, and then run me down if they could; and if they got me they’d tar and feather me and ride me on a rail, sure. I didn’t wait for no brea... ...nd lanes was just mud; they warn’t noth ing else but mud — mud as black as tar and nigh about a foot deep in some places, and two or three inches d... ...hinking you had pluck enough to lynch a man! Because you’re brave enough to tar and feather poor friend less cast out women that come along here, d... ... — that is, I knowed it was the king and the duke, though they was all over tar and feathers, and didn’t look like nothing in the world that was hum...

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...OOP of amber slips away Upon an ether sea, And wrecks in peace a purple tar, The son of ecstasy. 142 CIX OF bronze and blaze The no...

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...was behind me. Grinding my teeth and swearing horribly, I drew that scimi- tar which never yet failed its blow, {2} and rushed at the In- dian. He cam...

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...xcuse her absence, but her sister interrupted her with an inquiry about Miss Tar Chapter 12 75 rant. ‘Mr. Ransom thinks her wonderfully charming. Wh... ...therefore not interested in appearing to cultivate relations with them. Mrs. Tar rant, I may mention, had a further motive: she was consumed with the... ... in which her feet—that is, her head—failed her at times for weariness. Mrs. Tar rant found Miss Chancellor at home, but she was not gratified by even... ...r 24 A little more than an hour after this he stood in the parlour of Doctor Tar rant’s suburban residence, in Monadnoc Place. He had induced a juven...

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... of a river, from which river, Mudfog derives an agree able scent of pitch, tar, coals, and rope yarn, a roving popu lation in oilskin hats, a prett...

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... Just then flew down a monstrous crow, As black as a tar barrel; Which frightened both the heroes so, ...

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...e counted the day almost fair. Long lines of barges lay one after another along the ca- nal; many of them looking mighty spruce and shipshape in their...

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...g; ballast of heavy bour- geoisie; working-men and sailor-men touched with tar; in her cabins the lucky passengers; elegant midshipmen smoke their cig...

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... face injected with blood, and features set close together like those of a Tar- tar,—a likeness to which his crinkled red hair conveyed a sinister exp...

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...e. She won’t ever know.” “Oh, I dasn’t, Mars Tom. Ole missis she’d take an’ tar de head off’n me. ‘Deed she would.” “She! She never licks anybody — w... ...atly helped to ease Tom’s con science. The villagers had a strong desire to tar and feather Injun Joe and ride him on a rail, for body snatching, but...

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...d it and thrown back the lid in a twinkling. A strong smell of tobacco and tar rose from the interior, but nothing was to be seen on the top except a ... ... my life, I seemed never to have been near the sea till then. The smell of tar and salt was something new. I saw the most wonderful figureheads, that ...