At the time of the Jameson Raid Rudyard Byng had gripped the situation with skill, decision, and immense resource, giving as much help to the government of the day as to his colleagues and all British folk on the Rand.
Wallie, in turn, took off his girlish sailor and swung it through the bus window and wafted kisses at the dear, amiable folk of The Colonial until the motor had passed between the stately pillars of the entrance.
The gathering was composed mostly of good, honest folk but plain ones.
Wallie felt suddenly nervous and wished he had taken more pains to dress, as he visualized the prosperous-looking, well-groomed folk of The Colonial Hotel.
If to look at one millionaire is a pleasure and a privilege for folk who are kept scratching to make ends meet, the citizens of Prouty might well be excused for leaving their occupations and turning out en masse to see a "bunch.
He had a notion that he had gotten the best of Canby and wished that Miss Spenceley and The Colonial folk knew he had made a shrewd bargain and gotten a herd started.
At every station between Bagdad and Sulphurville crowds of country folk got in, all of whom were wearing flags and flowers in their buttonholes and were in a state of perspiring festivity.
But, as I was saying, the folkround here they beat the band.
And oh, if I could hope that some nice folk would come here in our place--or even that it would be left vacant.
Doctors who have to be up all night waiting on sick folk don't feel very adventurous, I suppose," Anne said indulgently.
The little house folk lived much in it, and were given to taking picnic suppers in the grassy corner beyond the brook and sitting about in it through the twilights when great night moths sailed athwart the velvet gloom.
Sailors and fisher-folk travelled the red, winding harbor roads, light-hearted and content.
Well, nothing could do THAT--mother come of a race of sea-going folk and it was born in me.
The simple folk readily agreed to put Jack up for a few days; it would have been impossible to find more comfortable quarters during his period of waiting.
When I came here four years ago, the most of them looked on it with suspicion, even dread; now they use it as freely as the folk in Moscow or Petersburg.
Then, looking loftily round on the other women, "What ever do these factory folk find to grumble at?
Simple folk like me aren't used to get their way, like the gentry.
The folk hereabouts never come to us in these Union cases.
Dead folk have done more than that, sooner than want Christian burial," replied an old woman.
We sickfolk have sharp ears, and will keep them well opened.
That is, this was her obvious purpose, as it was of many Polktown folk abroad at the hour.
The teachings instilled into his daughter's mind by that really wonderful man, Mr. Broxton Day, to the end that she is always eager to begin the battle while other folk are merely talking about it, has served to put Polktown on the map.
I came to the land of Abruzzi, where the men and women go in pattens on the mountains, and clothe the hogs with their own entrails;(18) and a little further on I found folk that carried bread in staves and wine in sacks.
There tarrying accordingly, Messer Ruggieri very soon, as well by the splendid style in which he lived as by the prodigious feats of arms that he did, gave folk to know his high desert.
Wit and ruthless fatuity were the order of the day; these folk were wondrous full of the neatly turned phrase and the polished epigram.
As a fact, the dark-eyed, long-nosed folk that trudged these steep and narrow thoroughfares were a sluggish people; and sunlit Grasse snored away its day in drowsy fashion.
And I thought all you ranch folk had your wealth in cattle, and re'lly had no time for much social exchange.
The social gatherings at the church and schoolhouse at Jackleg had been attended by Frances and Captain Rugley; but the Bar-T folk really had no near neighbors.
I guess the granny-folk would go tongue wagging if they found it out.
Of course he could have done none of the things he did had he not first won the confidence of those poor ignorant folkthat are our neighbors and our friends.
Yet he was honest enough to admit inwardly that should victory fall to his banners there would be flotsam in the wake of his triumph, too; simple folk despoiled of their birthright.
Ye've done misled folkthet swore by ye, ef I sees hit a'right.
They are an honest, upstanding folk and they have always felt the pinch of privation.
Of a truth the poor trading folk of Dendermonde had never seen quite so much money all at once and in the same hand.
She gave the poor folk money and said kindly words of compassion to them.
Each of these books contains just half the pictures and text of "Red Folk and Wild Folk.
Poorer folk are satisfied with very rough mats of rushes.
The lack of an actual living person will be compensated for in a certain sense by the ever living folk spirit and the infinite series of its manifestations (folk-lore, etc.
Such is the legended land of the Selish, a land fit for gentle, poetic folk to dwell in, a land worthy for brave and devoted men to lay down their lives to save.
The Indians did not know, the priest himself could not understand, that he was the channel through which these simple, happy folk should embark upon dangerous, devouring seas.
When the day of the journey arrived the whole community departed, the chiefs and wealthy warriors on horseback, the poorer folk afoot.
The folk songs were singing in his soul, and the lines of Abel's We Are Free, the friendships of Spenski and Samarc, of these in the room, and the love of Berthe Wyndham.
And the women-folk of his land are bearing their share of this task; they do not shrink; they are helping their fathers, brothers, and sons in this fight.
The women-folk at the Cape were as anxious as the men, first to prevent, and then to stop, the unfortunate war, the burdens of which they shared with their husbands.
During these months of incarceration the natives are separated from their women-folk and families.
All the same; just now you were pitying your folk at home, and prisoners and that.
Roberts says workin' folk have always lived from hand to mouth.
You don't let your women folk do just as they like?
There's plentyfolk ain't 'alf as Christian as 'er be.
And I'm none the worse for that when I have to deal with folk like you.
These county folk talk soft sawder, but to get anything from them's like gettin' butter out of a dog's mouth.
There's puzzivantin' folk as'll set an' gossip the feathers off an angel.
I'm sometimes tempted to believe there's nothing for some of these poor folk but to pray for death.
A myriad of unseen folkwere peeping at him from limb and stump and shadow.
The leaves fell in countless millions, and the voices of the feathered folk seemed to have blown away with the autumn leaves.
They did not seem to think much here of people from Galilee because all kinds of heathenish folk lived there--as if any one who was born in Bethlehem could be a heathen!
Jesus had observed that, while they were feeding so luxuriously in the hall, needy folk were harshly turned away in the courtyard, to slink off hungry and embittered.
Only poor folk and little children were attracted to him: he cheered the former and played with the latter.
You'll fall on those defencelessfolk from an ambush?
The disciples who had not hitherto travelled much, found a new world in the harbours of Tyre and Sidon, a world of folk and wares from every quarter of the earth, strange people and strange customs.
Early as it was, some of their women-folk had arrived from the village, and cooked and made ready a meal of baked fish and chickens.
The little folk are being taught to cut out patterns, and shapes of special objects or symbols to be studied.
Several shoryobune which I saw at Inasa were really beautiful, and must have cost a rather large sum for poor fisher-folk to pay.
And in after years he attained to great holiness, so that folk still pray to him, and his memory is venerated throughout the land.
And old Izumo folk say they remember that the Thunder-Animal was once exhibited in the court of the Temple of Tenjin in Matsue, inclosed in a cage of brass; and that people paid one sen each to look at it.
The wealthy can lie upon five or six quilts, and cover themselves with as many as they please, while poor folk must content themselves with two or three.
In former times the samurai women wore their hair in two particular styles: the maiden's coiffure was ichogaeshi, and that of the married folk katahajishi.
Some nurse-girl or elder sister loosens her hair in front, so as to let it fall over her face, and pursues the little folk with moans and weird gestures, miming all the attitudes of the ghosts of the picture-books.
By hundreds of thousands do the silent populations of the hakaba outnumber the folk of the hamlets to which they belong--tiny thatched settlements sprinkled along the leagues of coast, and sheltered from the wind only by ranks of sombre pines.
But this is the knowledge of old men: the young folk of these times who learn the things of the West do not believe.
A NORSE FOLK TALE EAST OF THE SUN AND WEST OF THE MOON Once there was a poor woodcutter who had so many children that it was hard to get enough for them to eat.
They are quite the strangest folk Anybody ever knew, Shapes of shadow and of smoke Living in the chimney flue.
They were in debt, too, though I had sent them double the money after I had the shop than before; but they just thought that a rich auntie in Australia was a mine of wealth, and the folk very unwisely gave them trust whenever they asked it.
To see folk dressed up and painted, rampaging about and talking havers, just making fools of themselves.
But what with the rent and the schooling, and one thing and another, I found that the rent of my bit shop would not pay all expenses, so I took in washing and dressing for the folk about Swinton.
All the folk about me called me Miss Walker, very much to my surprise; and as I was thought to be making money, I had no want of sweethearts.
It is a great good Providence that you have happened so well; but all folk have not your good luck.
I have heard," said Peggy, "that the folk hereabouts think you will be getting up a subscription.
I had to rule with a high hand at Barragong, and really to demean myself as if I were the mistress, to keep folk in their place.
