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Robert Hays Cunningham
Hamilton, Adams, 1889 - 350 страници

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Страница 158 - ... sleep, and looked me full in the face, and never the word did he say, but lifting up his tail, he splashed me all over again with the cold salt water till there wasn'ta dry stitch upon my whole carcass; and I heard somebody saying - 'twas a voice I knew too - "Get up, you drunken brute, off...
Страница 157 - Just as we were talking, a ship hove in sight, scudding so beautiful before the wind : ' Ah ! then, sir,' said I, ' will you drop me on the ship, if you please?' ' We are not fair over it,' said he. ' We are,' said I. ' We are not,' said he : ' I I dropped you now, you would go splash into the sea.
Страница 152 - I got ashore, somehow or other, but never the one of me can tell how, upon a dissolute island. " I wandered and wandered about there, without knowing where I wandered, until at last I got into a big bog. The moon was shining as bright as day, or your fair lady's eyes, sir (with your pardon for mentioning her), and I looked east and west, and north and south, and every way, and nothing did I see but bog, bog, bog ; — I...
Страница 157 - tis falling you are, Daniel,' says he. ' You may say that, sir,' says I. ' And where are you going all the way so fast ?' said the gander. So I told him how I had taken the drop, and how I came on the island, and how I lost my way in the bog, and how the thief of an eagle flew me up to the moon, and how the man in the moon turned me out. ' Dan,' said he, ' I'll save you : put out your hand and catch me by the leg, and I'll fly you home/ ' Sweet is your hand in a pitcher of honey, my jewel...
Страница 244 - I heard of play-acting and of pjayers making themselves kings and queens, and saying a great many wonderful things, but I had never before an opportunity of making myself a witness to the truth of these hearsays. So Maister Glen, being as fu...
Страница 119 - Dick now tried to rise, but was obliged to lie down again, being too weak to stand, for he had not eaten...
Страница 247 - Nae sooner said than done. In he stappit her into a closet ; and after shutting the door on her, he sat down upon a chair, pretending to be asleep in a moment. The auld faither came bouncing in, and seeing the fellow as sound as a tap, he ran forrit and gaed him sich a shake, as if he wad hae shooken him a' sundry, which sune made him open his een as fast as he had steekit them.
Страница 126 - A day for the wedding was soon fixed ; and they were attended to church by the Lord Mayor, the court of aldermen, the sheriffs, and a great number of the richest merchants in London, whom they afterwards treated with a very rich feast. History tells us that Mr. Whittington and his lady lived in great splendor and were very happy.
Страница 235 - Anne, sister Anne, dost thou see anybody coming?" And sister Anne answered : — " I see nothing but the sun, which makes a dust, and the grass, which is green." " Come down quickly," cried Blue Beard,
Страница 66 - Fe, Fi, Fo, Fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman; Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread...

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