How the King sent for him from Oxford, and in what wonderful manner he pleased the King's Five Senses; also the Comical Pranks he played with a Courtier sent to fetch him.
Hereupon the Dauphin with a great number of men surprised and retook it.
We don't use towad in Scotland as you wad in England.
Says he, "I dinna doubt but she wad mak my parritch, but the plague is, she wad be fair to sup the hauf o' them.
No wad is required over a shell, but a selvageewad may be used in heavy rolling.
Mortars can also be fired with a bag of one-pound balls, or ordinary grape-shot, with very reduced charges, and a wad between the powder and the balls.
Sabots for the shell and a gromet wad over the shot.
Placing a grommet or other wad over elongated projectiles is positively prohibited.
The face of the rammer is hollowed, so as to embrace the front of the ball and press the selvageewad home in its place.
My Meg she is waitin' abeigh-- Ilk spunkie that flits through the fen Wad jealously lead me astray Frae my ain bonnie lass o' the glen!
He wad have been at this communion nae doot, if he hadna engaged to preach somewhere near Sanquhar this vera day.
But before I gang awa' I wad fain repay ye for the guid turn ye did to my bairns.
The adventures that puir man has had in the coorse o' mair nor quarter o' a century wad mak' a grand story-buik.
Then I wad ware my widowhood Upon a ranting Highlandman' This canticle, which excited a suppressed titter among the younger part of the audience, totally overcame the patience of the taunted man of the anvil.
As it's near the darkening, sir, wad ye just step in by to our house and tak a dish o' tea?
That I wad wi' a' my heart; and mickle obliged to your honour for putting me in mind o' mybounden duty.
It's a bonny place this, an' this hoose wad cost a big rent in Glesca.
He wad mak' a fine upstaundin' Captun fur wan o' yer boats some day, and I wad like tae see him get on!
Wha' wad have thought Cap'en Nickerson had a hame like this?
I pray thee tell to me; For gin the nicht were ever sae mirk, I wad come and visit thee, thee; I wad come and visit thee.
On both sides of the Nile the river mist spread wide, and the army of Ali Wad Hei and the defending forces were alike veiled from each other and from the desert world beyond.
He had them trained on that portion of the advancing infantry of Ali Wad Hei not yet covered by his own forces.
His own men were now between the position and Ali Wad Hei's shouting fanatics.
These came forward at the double, and, with a courage which nothing could withstand, the whole circle spread out again upon the discomfited tribes of Ali Wad Hei.
Ali Wad Hei scorned to make any reply with his guns, but sat in desultory counsel with his sheikhs, planning what should be done when the mists had cleared away.
Even fifty men, well intrenched, could hold the position until the main body of Ali Wad Hei's infantry came on.
Through the mist the guns of the city were pouring shot and shell out into Ali Wad Hei's camp, and Ali Wad Hei laughed contemptuously.
The deserters are all gone to Ali Wad Hei, Saadat.
After a long pause: "And he wanted you to say something to you folks that wad save my young life?
Europe; for whence could they have been derived, as these several countries do not possess a number of peculiar species as distinct parent-stocks?
The great and inherited development of the udders in cows and goats in countries where they are habitually milked, in comparison with the state of these organs in other countries, is another instance of the effect of use.
But to discuss whether they are rightly called species or varieties, before any definition of these terms has been generally accepted, is vainly to beat the air.
We have proofs that this is not so in some cases, in which exact records have been kept; thus, to give a very trifling instance, the steadily-increasing size of the common gooseberry may be quoted.
Indian cattle, that these had descended from a different aboriginal stock from our European cattle; and several competent judges believe that these latter have had more than one wild parent.
Canidæ--ever existed freely in a state of nature?
In favour of this view, I may add, firstly, that C.
Now, in this same catalogue, 53 acknowledged varieties are recorded, and these range over 7.
Certainly, a breed intermediate between two very distinct breeds could not be got without extreme care and long-continued selection; nor can I find a single case on record of a permanent race having been thus formed.
There are poor Mango's poems, which James Batter and me think excellent, and if any one think otherwise, I wad just thank them to write better at their leisure.
It's surely impossible--if the circumstance got wind aboon, that there was whisky in these parts, there wad be nae keepin folk out.
Do ye think the king wad think himsel demeaned by takin a nicht's quarters frae me?
If I had got my due, I wadhae been hanged, or at least sent to Botany Bay.
I see Satan himsel at the bellows, and it's no for ilka sinner he wad condescend to work.
Oh, if the puir prodigal wad return, sae blithely as the goodman wad kill the fatted calf!
Indeed, Reuben, you must not; for if you were asking me very sair I wad maybe tell you, and then I am sure I would do wrong.
Wha wad hae thought but mysell of making a bolt of my ain back-bane?
Oh, dear father, as ye wad desire a blessing on my journey, and upon your household, speak a word or write a line of comfort to yon poor prisoner.
Ane miller asked me to gang in and see it work, but I wad not, for I am not come to the south to make acquaintance with strangers.
And as to its being an unanimous call, I wad be glad to ken fat business the carles have to call ony thing or ony body but what the Duke and mysell likes!
The Captain's a queer hand, and to speak to him about that or onything else that crosses the maggot, wad be to set the kiln a-low.
