Coming out of the cabin just before turning in, to take a last look round, I saw Lingo on top of the sled eating something, and I found that he had dug a slab of bacon out of the unlashed load and had eaten most of it.
Only the previous night Lingo had betrayed his trust for the first and last time.
His work was well-nigh done, and old Lingo had honestly earned his rest.
Lingo had never failed me; never let his traces slack if he could keep them taut, never in his life had whip laid on his back to make him pull; a faithful old work dog for whom I had a hearty respect and regard.
Some doubt I had had of old Lingo lasting through the winter, but none of Nanook, and they were the only survivors of my original team.
But Nanook and Lingo had seen boys come and boys go, and they knew better.
They were all glad to see me--Old Lingo and Nig, and even "Jimmy the Fake.
How could he send one of them ashore with the wineshops yawning wide on all sides, and not enough lingo to ask for the way.
Harshly jovial voices answered: "Stow your lingo and come before the captain.
He repeated the lingoof the Seventy-seven Travellers from beginning to end.
Sing that jinglinglingo the blood-supping Oomgar-mulgar taught you.
I knew by his Spanish lingoand by his full beard that he was the villain I have named, a renegade mongrel, and the worst murderer in Tierra del Fuego.
If the audience did not know the lingoof one song from another, it was no drawback to the merriment.
Biblical tones as he returned to the lingoof the old mission-room.
Langi, O ke mako," he murmured, lapsing into his nativelingo as he gazed steadily into the frightened girl's eyes.
Notorious for a "swearing rogue," who punctuated his strange sea-lingo with horrid oaths and appalling blasphemies, he made the responses required by the services of his Church with all the superstitious awe and tender piety of a child.
But you should hear our Jeromio sing hislingo songs some night astern: and though I do hate that cunning rascal, yet, my eyes!
In the rolling periods of the Trade Lingo the torch bearer identified himself as Groft, son and heir of the late lamented Paft.
Go in," he formed the Trade Lingo words with care.
The date of the story is 1809: and the author had for that period a fairly safe pattern in Miss Austen: but she does not use it at all, nor does she make the lingo frankly that of her own day.
The resulting lingo is far better than that part of the lingo of to-day where literary and linguistic good manners have been forgotten altogether: but it is distinctly deficient in ease.
Ah, you are a gentleman—gentlefolks always find it easier to learn to read a foreign lingo than to speak it, but it’s quite the contrary with we poor folks.
Lingo then thought he had had enough of the four brothers, so he determined to go and find the other sixteen score Gonds who were imprisoned somewhere as the brothers had told him.
Screamed the panther in the forest, Growled the bear upon the mountain, And our Lingo then bethought him Of their cannibal propensities.
Therefore Lingo took the guitar in his hand, And held it; he gave a stroke, and it sounded well; from it he drew one hundred tunes.
The uncle told him not to eat of the field of Lingo or all the nilgai would be killed.
Then Lingo told the Gonds to make fire and roast the deer as follows: He said, I will show you something; see if anywhere in your Waistbands there is a flint; if so, take it out and make fire.
So they all went back to the cave andLingo assigned two of the daughters each to the three elder brothers and one to the youngest.
Then Lingo disclosed himself to the giant and became friendly with him.
Lingo woke up and went to see his field, and found all the rice eaten.
The crow came and reported that Lingo was dead, and the god sent him back with nectar to sprinkle it over the body and bring it to life again, which was done.
The giant called his seven daughters and offered them all to Lingo in marriage.
Lingo said he was not marrying himself, but he would take them home as wives for his brothers.
Lingo invited him to come and feast on the flesh of the sixteen scores of nilgai.
I can't tell all we did for the next six months because Dravot did a lot I couldn't see the hang of, and he learned their lingo in a way I never could.
She taught me the lingo and one or two other things; but what happened?
Cotch thot there hekka, and tell t' driver iv yourlingo thot you've coorn to tak' his place.
I did hear him tell Ellis where to drive him to,--he kept saying it over and over again, in that queer lingo of his.
I expected that he would address me in the lingo which these gentlemen call French,--but he didn't.
I can't tell all we did for the next six months, because Dravot did a lot I couldn't see the hang of, and he learned their lingo in a way I never could.
An' you'll excuse me, shipmets, if I say that yer lingo ain't just so polished as it might be.
I'll not give 'em a word of the English lingo if they was to try to tear it out o' me wi' red hot pincers.
Some polytechnical idiot at a safe distance dubbed it The Big Sandy; and the Big Sandy it is to this day on map and in folder--but not in the lingo of trackmen nor the heart of the Sioux.
He tried to talk, and only stammered a lingo of switch-pidgin and the name of Shockley.
I've been trying to find out from him, but I'd defy Sherlock Holmes himself to make head or tail of the sort of lingo he talks, about mountain homes and the Orchestra of Life!
She can't talk English, an' I'm blest if I can make head nor tail out of the lingoshe DOES talk.
Of my father, I will only say that he was in no way behind his friend Bill King in bravery, and though he spoke the sailor's lingo like his shipmates, he was vastly his superior in manners and appearance.
