Your idea of a lark or a spree Is all Noise, Noodle-Nonsense, and Nastiness!
Perk must have suddenly remembered his lapse of manners, for in the midst of his drinking spree he stopped short and stepped back as though to invite his comrade to take his turn.
The wool-shed is getting along, though the carpenters went on the spree at Bochara for a fortnight.
I'll look arter the cart and hoss, and have all ready for a good spreeat Christmas.
We 'ad a bit of a spree last night, old man, didn't we?
It seems he had been out on the spree the day before, had inherited a bad headache, and had sent for me to say that he was going round to see his captain and confess his delinquency.
The passage ended in a great spree at Cape Town, and the party separated to their varying fortunes.
If everybody would knock off drinking for ten years, everybody, we'd have everything straightened out by then and nobody would ever want to go on the spree again.
And though Joe was not like many a woman's husband yet he did get on the spree occasionally, a little fact which in the opinion of the pious will account for all Mrs. Phillips' weariness and all the poverty of this crowded house.
You know, Miss Lawton, I'm not one of the fellows who swear off Monday mornings and get on the spree the next Saturday night.
Not that he seized the opportunity to go on a spree while Anderson was moon-gazing,--not at all.
Doubtless some of them might--" "How long after a man's been on a bad spree is he likely to think he sees snakes?
Sometimes he would disappear on a spree for days, get caught by the muckers, and come home with a tin can in tow.
They were finding fairly well, but their finds melted away before the claim was worked out, at least most of them did, though there would have been something left if they had not been fools and had that spree at Kimberley Races.
He has let his prospecting job down the river slide, and he is back in the camp again, and he has been back for a week, and been on the spree all the time.
He accepted a gin rickey, but declined rather curtly the suggestion of a little spree over Sunday to a resort on the Cape which formerly he would have found enticing.
We'll have a spree on Saturday--the circus is coming then.
So it is; but it would be a spree to see what he says about the race.
We might have chanced a spree of some sort, only if we get pulled up again he may expel us.
It is a vastly different affair from the Spreewe used to watch with chattering teeth at midnight, kneeling on the wet grass in front of Witherspoon, with a full moon watching over West College and Mat.
The heavy weight spree was usually the shortest and most exciting contest of the evening.
As a matter of fact winning the spree meant much more to the big placid farmer than a hickory cane to hang with ribbons over his mantelpiece, and more than a bit of fame in another kind of athletics, too.
But Jim couldn't see it in that light, and said one little spree wouldn't hurt Johnnie, so the day before Christmas we pulled out for Sacramento.
I have it by good authority that this was the last drunken spree that Johnnie West ever took.
While in Virginia City this time Slade made threats against several people, and during his spree did something, I never knew just what, and a warrant was sworn out and placed in the hands of a marshal for his arrest.
They and the other things will be safer here, where they have lain so long, than in the house which may get burned down through some drunken spree by the fellows I have to harbour.
Why in the world Mrs. Ellis should tie up her head and groan because the little Keeler person had gone on a spree was beyond his comprehension.
Was it possible that this odd, precise, dried-up little man had been on a spree for four days?
Apparently he had not yet embarked upon thespree which Captain Lote had pronounced imminent.
Every trip into the woodlands of the Spree offered an abundance of beautiful and pleasurable experiences, but I remember with still greater enjoyment my leafy nooks on the river-bank.
She regarded the Maoris who were present at the spree with sublime contempt and gathered skirts.
There was a spree at the township; an event that had been looked forward to by everybody for months past.
The scene of the spree was, of course, to be our Assembly Hall, although every citizen of Te Pahi township kept open house that night.
This was evidently going to be a spreeon a most superb scale.
And he got on the spree for a day or two and let out a few things that he’d better have kept to himself.
Tumberumba Dick stayed a day or two here last week, and got on the spree rather.
No, we've been on the spree enough for one evening, my old head is quite turned already.
But we were meaning to go on thespree a bit now that we've at last come out!
Uncle Max" 'lowed that before we left Berkeley we must go off on a spree with him, and suggested--imagine!
I have kept some little reminder of almost every spree we took in our four engaged years--it is a book of sheer joy from cover to cover.
In addition to such functions, Carl and I had our Wednesday night spree just by ourselves, when every week we met after his seminar.
Each night that we spared for a spree we sought out some beer-hall--as unfrequented a one as possible, to get all the local color we could.
We had a gay week of it after Christmas, when the whole eleven of us went on some Dutch-treat spree every night, before going back to our studies.
