Merrylegs could not be resisted, so we broke
off our long conversation, and got up our spirits by munching some very sweet apples which lay scattered on the grass.
Tell him to slack
off the mainsheet, and before you know it, he'd drop the peak.
Now the reason hair falls
off is because it hangs DOWN--things never fall UPWARDS, you know.
But besides the fact that cutting
off Napoleon with his army would have been senseless, it was impossible.
Hans brushed his coat, wiped his face and hands, rested a while, and then drove
off his cow quietly, and thought his bargain a very lucky one.
I don't believe, mother, that harmless cheerfulness and good humour are thought greater sins in Heaven than shirt-collars are, and I do believe that those chaps are just about as right and sensible in putting down the one as in leaving
off the other--that's my belief.
They are out again and up; coachee the last, gathering the reins into his hands and talking to Jem the hostler about the mare's shoulder, and then swinging himself up on to the box--the horses dashing
off in a canter before he falls into his seat.
He said he would watch out, and if they tried to come any such game on him he knowed of a place six or seven mile
off to stow me in, where they might hunt till they dropped and they couldn't find me.
The distance to the killing-grounds was only half a mile, but it took an hour to cover, because if the seals went too fast Kerick knew that they would get heated and then their fur would come
off in patches when they were skinned.
The approach of night put an end to the skirmishing fire of the adverse parties, and the savages drew
off without renewing their hostilities.
We will now talk about yourself a little, if you have no objection: you were to carry
off Mlle.
The executioner's argument was, that you couldn't cut
off a head unless there was a body to cut it
off from: that he had never had to do such a thing before, and he wasn't going to begin at HIS time of life.
