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........................ 202 Note 2.?STEELE, A COVENANTER, SHOT BY CAPTAIN CREICHTON. ................................................. 205 Note 3.?IRON RASP. ............................................................................................................................................. 207 Note 4.?COUNTESS OF EGLINTON................................................

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...ICHTON. ................................................. 205 Note 3.—IRON RASP.......................................................................... ...he Canongate was studded with iron nails, and formed of black oak; an iron rasp, as it was called, was placed on it, instead of a knocker, for the pur... ... a knocker, for the purpose of summoning the attendants. [See Note 3.—Iron Rasp.] He who usually appeared at the sum- mons was a smart lad, in a hands... ...lies bur- ied in the churchyard there.” 207 Sir Walter Scott Note 3.—IRON RASP . The ingenious Mr. R. Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh give the fol... ...bers’s Traditions of Edinburgh give the following account of the forgotten rasp or risp:— “This house had a pin or risp at the door, instead of the mo...

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...sts an ominous stare at me for daring to suggest we call it a day. "Don't be a jinx!" – he rasps – "You don't retire on a night like this with Lady... ... stare, turning the pages in my book in the wrong direction. "What did you tell her?" – he rasps. "Nothing whatsoever." "And she?" "Said none." ...

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...way. “How long, Claire? How long has it been since he died?” His voice was raspy with desire. “A little over a year,” I replied. “Then perhaps,” Eri... ...indeed a pair,” Erik said drily, rubbing his chin. I could hear the stubble rasp against his hand. “I would love a bath,” I sighed. “I do wish we...

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...fight. Nick. The farrier shook his head with disgust and smacked a long metal rasp against his leather apron. “Shoeing horses is hard enough witho... ...d enough without grown men leaping like apes. Scaring them.” Nick twirled his rasp with the authority of a nightstick. “I suggest you take your argum... ...ready. Nick stepped forward and stood beside him, a stalwart force with a big rasp. Otto jerked back. Cursed and stalked from the barn. Nick chuck... ...e tonight.” “You bought a cheap claimer?” Nick shook his head and slipped his rasp in the long side pocket of his apron. “Thought you Woodbine guys ...

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...t the lass will bite.” She thought she detected a hint of amusement in the rasping lilt of his brogue, but it tore at her heart to hear it altered s... ...lid like liquid velvet down his scorched throat. “How much?” he asked, the rasp in his voice soothed and muffled as it had not been since the fire. ... ...eathe, York had quietly seen to it that he did all three. Now, the chafing rasp in his own voice reminded Daniel that he should soon make York go. ... ... Comstock off. “I will not hear her name from your foul lips again,” Daniel rasped. “I’ll have you know, that is my fiancée you slander.” What?... ... around him. His chest rose and fell steadily, but she could hear the husky rasp in his breathing, almost as if his heart whispered to her, “Say yes... ...etter, I believe.” There was a mixture of scolding and pouting in Daniel’s raspy tone. He scowled at his silent guests, then turned his back on th... ...irtuous as a knight in armor in this Godawful velvet robe Helene gave....” A raspy yawn swallowed the rest of his sentence. “Anyway, I’m too tired.”... ...ad to see through the slits, but the friction of her head against the pillow rasped at her. “Help me sit up.” She felt his arms encircle her, cradl... ...“Six hundred steps?” Morgan’s throat, made raw by the cold winds, produced a raspy croak. “Don’t worry, Carr Bearnach hasn’t half so many.” It was...

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... at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If Alcaeus is dead, I will take poison—and I saw myself goi... ...kos and he pushed through the crowd to take the floor. Pittakos, with his rasping tongue and fish eyes—was there a more dishonest ruler? How ironica...

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... at the rail, no flags. I heard an oar drag and in that sound I heard the rasp of death. If Alcaeus is dead, I will take poison—and I saw myself goi... ...kos and he pushed through the crowd to take the floor. Pittakos, with his rasping tongue and fish eyes—was there a more dishonest ruler? How ironica... ...g or silent, often too silent, wading lustily. She loved to steal apples, raspberries, strawberries, turnips, hungry from morning till night. I peel... ... down once more. January 15, 1616 Stratford—Henley Street Viola bows rasped and recorders piped and rain hit the door and windows at Hall’s, th... ...vorably of yesterday’s battle, LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 611 speaks with a rasping voice, hand to his throat. Behind his chair lies a muddy saddle. I...

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...arms, and becoming the express image of irascible doggedness, ‘I have been rasped—rasped these forty years—by your taking such high ground even with m... ...d and great talent; but the strongest head, and the greatest talent, can’t rasp a man for forty years without making him sore. So I don’t care for you... ..., and get into Monday. Now, all this is a swallow- ing of me up alive that rasps me; so, feeling a little out of temper, and not being as strict as yo...

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.... If you call me Mrs. Gadsby, p’raps I’ll tell. CAPT . G. (Throwing Parade rasp into his voice.) Mrs. Gadsby , confessl MRS. G. Good Heavens, Phil! I ...

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...hem’s to blame. Jim begun to snore — soft and blubbery at first, then a long rasp, then a stronger one, then a half a dozen horrible ones like the las...

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...f yellow envelopes. From the telephone alcoves came the prolonged, musical rasp of the call bells. In the Western Union booths the keys of the multitu... ...hemselves off. At once there was a great silence, broken only by the harsh rasp of the carpenters’ saws and the voice of the jani- tor exchanging joke... ...he imagined, there issued a strange un- wonted note; as it were, the first rasp and grind of a new avalanche just beginning to stir, a diapason more p...

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...lenty of pocket- money, which he spent in treating his comrades royally to rasp- berry tarts, and he was often allowed to come home on Satur- days to ... ...They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hardbake and rasp- berry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent’s Park and the Ser...

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... into the Corner Shop an’ unstrapped lewnatic; but all I iver tuk from his rasp av a tongue was ginger-pop to fwhat Annie tould me. An’ that, mark you... .... If you call me Mrs. Gadsby, p’raps I’ll tell. CAPT . G. (Throwing Parade rasp into his voice.) Mrs. Gadsby, confess! MRS. G. Good Heavens, Phil! I n...

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... between the beach-comber’s teeth, then pushed it back slowly. The hideous rasp of the operation turned Wilbur’s blood cold within him. He looked away...

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...room, where the daggers were being sharpened, came the regular screech and rasp of iron against stone. Hadji Murad got himself some water from a tu...

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...reasons why the Gloucester boats de- spise the Frenchmen. Down below , the rasping sound of rough salt rubbed on rough flesh sounded like the whirring... ...d not known that tale more than twenty years. Uncle Salters went on with a rasp- ing chuckie: “Sim’on Peter Ca’honn he said, an’ he was jest right, ab...

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...e faces that he knew as friends, the savage grated his teeth together like rasps of iron, and swallowed his passion for want of a victim on whom to ve...

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... struggle was bit- ter; his teeth ground themselves together with a little rasp- ing sound; the blood sang in his ears; his face flushed scar- let; hi... ...d dinner, preoccupied, thoughtful. “A million dollars,” he muttered in his rasping, guttural whisper, his finger-tips wandering over his thin, cat-lik... ... whites of their eyes, while they drew in their breaths with prolonged and rasp- ing snarls. Each dog seemed to be the personification of fury and uns... ... and you know where it is.” Suddenly he pitched his voice at the prolonged rasping shout with which he made his street cry. He rose to his feet, his l... ...s.” The rest of the shift were sleeping soundly, filling the room with the rasping sound of snoring. Everything was in its accustomed place; nothing s...

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... said Minoret, gruffly. “Well, wait till Monday and you shall see how I’ll rasp her,” said Goupil, studying the expression of the late post master’s f...

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...s dropped, and the big head with them—dropped lower and lower, and the red rasp of a tongue grated on Mowgli’s instep. “Brother—Brother—Brother!” the ...

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...- ing off over the fields beyond the town, his frown lower- ing, his teeth rasping upon his pipestem. The station agent came to the door of the depot,... ...he flageolet and the deep-toned snarl of the big horn, with now and then a rasping stridulating of the snare drum. A sense of gayety began to spread t... ...the violins, the vigorous snarling of the cornet, and the harsh, incessant rasping of the snare drum. And at times all these various sounds mingled in... ...complaining. The stout gentleman snored monoto- nously in two notes, one a rasping bass, the other a pro- longed treble. At intervals, a brakeman or t... ...sing, all but pitched the conductor from his seat. A hideous ear-splitting rasp made itself heard from the clamped- down Westinghouse gear underneath,... ...it seemed endless, and the persistent snor- ing of the whiskered gentleman rasped the nerves like the scrape of a file. “Well, how long are we going t... ...hews of iron, and roared out upon the open track, filling the air with the rasp of its tempest-breath, blotting the sunshine with the belch of its hot... ... voices and footsteps, one terrible sound made itself heard—the prolonged, rasp- ing sound of breathing, half choked, laboured, agonised. “Where is my... ... his opened mouth, there issued that loud and terrible sound of guttering, rasping, laboured breathing that gagged and choked and gurgled with every i...

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... father of a French Roll, that the brushes of All Nations were laid in, to rasp Augustus George? Am I to be told that his sensitive skin was ever inte... ... and glide swiftly down the river with the tide. And while the shrewd East rasped and notched us, as with jagged razors, did my friend Pea impart to m...

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...Scott before a base mechanical burgo-master, who shall menace him with the rasp-house, the cord, and what not, as if he were one of their own mean, am...

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..., Pigs, idiots!” Oftentimes he croaks harsh sarcasm, having really a rough rasping tongue, and a very deep fund of contempt for fine outsides; and onc... ...h thunder to the general ear and heart. And deft Stock-makers do gouge and rasp; and all men bestir themselves, according to their cunning:—in the lan...

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... of light they changed to lustreless sheets of lead, with a surface like a rasp. But that spectacle did not affect her preoccupation. Her countenance,...

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...V anity Fair ested Mrs. Blenkinsop by evincing the deepest sympathy in the raspberry-jam preserving, which operation was then going on in the Housekee... ...lenty of pocket- money, which he spent in treating his comrades royally to rasp- berry tarts, and he was often allowed to come home on Satur- days to ... ...They both had a taste for painting theatrical characters; for hardbake and rasp- berry tarts; for sliding and skating in the Regent’s Park and the Ser...

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...house, or Bridewell, which you know is beside the Custom-house.” “Yaw, the Rasp-house; I know it very well.” “I will take care that the red-coats are ...

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...ness which he recommended. When he was silent, the Earl still continued to rasp his hand, until, with an effort at calm decision, he was able to artic...

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...ts and cart wheels, and evinced a strong desire to run on the pavement and rasp himself against the brick walls. It was not, there fore, until they h...

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...reverent in calling him, made up for the dulness of his high career with a raspberry-jam tart, for which, my father told me solemnly, the illustrious ... ...y I remember his repeating a couplet, ‘Billy Pitt took a cake and a raspberry jam, When he heard they had taken Seringapatam.’ At any r... ... the days of Chatham, and William Pitt (our old friend of the cake and the rasp- berry jam), and Burke, and Sheridan, encouraged the ora- 32 The Adve...

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...odic start, and by other demonstra tions of that nature, so file down and rasp, as it were, the patience of the locksmith, that after looking at her ...

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... to the Lion de Belfort, and in a new street that led out of the Boulevard Raspail found Mrs. Otter. She was an insignificant woman of thirty , with a... ...at her as though she were some re- pulsive animal, and his voice grew more rasp- ing. “It appears that you do not think I pay enough attention to you.... ...tudio which was vacant in one of the streets that led out of the Boulevard Raspail. It was very cheap. It had a room at- tached, which they could use ... ... soul. “He keeps his feet nice and clean, doesn’t he?” said Jacobs, in his rasping, cockney voice. The attendant students giggled. Philip noticed that... ...e?” “What’s the matter with Mrs. Fletcher?” called out Doctor South in his rasping voice. The child took no notice of him, but addressed herself again...

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...e, at that season of the day, a scraped and frosty look, as if it had been rasped; while a similar phenomenon devel- oped itself in her humour, which ... ...glass doors, developing cold fowls and noble joints, and tarts wherein the raspberry jam coyly withdrew itself, as such a precious creature should, be... ...fie for shame!’ Here Mrs Prig seized the patient by the chin, and began to rasp his unhappy head with a hair-brush. ‘I suppose you don’t like that, ne... ...other, by invisible means, was a massive cameo, in size and shape like the raspberry tart which is ordinarily sold for a penny, representing on its fr... ...enly said he was a long-headed man, a dry one, a salt fish, a deep file, a rasper; and made him the subject of many other flattering encomi- ums. At t...

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...Valhalla, or wherever you come from?” I said. “‘I’m afraid not, “ he said, rasping away at the hoof. He had a wonderful touch with horses. The old bea... ...he Chapel and threw down all his shoeing-tools—his hammers and pincers and rasps—to show that he had done with them for ever. It sounded like suits of... ...h a red horse-tail that flicked in the wind. She could hear the long hairs rasp on his shimmery shoul- der-plates. ‘What does the Faun mean,’ he said,... ...dear preceptress politely off the premises they got a cabbage-leaf full of raspberries from the gardener, and a Wild Tea from Ellen. They ate the rasp... ...ar blue eyes. They shook hands, and the children could hear the hard palms rasp together. ‘You ain’t lost none o’ your grip,’ said Hobden. ‘Was it thi... ...said, and they stumped upstairs laughing. The children heard their shovels rasp on the cloth where the yellow hops lie drying above the fires, and all...

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...ms, and becoming the express image of iras- cible doggedness, ‘I have been rasped—rasped these forty years—by your taking such high ground even with m... ...d and great talent; but the strongest head, and the greatest talent, can’t rasp a man for forty years without making him sore. So I don’t care for you... ...ck, and get into Monday. Now, all this is a swallowing of me up alive that rasps me; so, feeling a little out of temper, and not being as strict as yo...

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...rench marigold, flos Africanus; cherry tree in fruit; ribes; figs in fruit; rasps; vineflowers; lavender in flowers; the sweet satyrian, with the whi...

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...tchets, saws, adzes, planes, chisels, gouges, gimlets, files, spokeshaves, rasps, hammers, nails, knives, scissors, razors, needles, thread, crockery-...

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...ja!” each word dropping out like so many soft pellets of suet; the subdued rasp of the official would come: “Zum Befehl Durchlaucht,” like five revolv...

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...e, awkward way, and even to squabble, his little throat vibrating with a queer rasping noise, (the forerunner of the growl), as he worked himself into... ...breast. But he was, further, the fiercest of the litter. He could make a louder rasping growl than any of them. His tiny rages were much more terrible ... ...om the making of ferocious sounds through the many years since his first little rasp of anger in the lair of his cubhood, and he could not soften the s...

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...ddle-stick, or even set your teeth hard together, you could do nothing but rasp like the fellows that play in bands for a few shillings a night.” “How...

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...ht. The skin of a shark is like sandpaper, but the skin of a ray fish is like a rasp. In the South Seas the natives use it as a wood file in smoothing d... ...perfumed, luminous night, and their lips made uncouth noises and their throats rasped approval of Koolau’s speech. They were creatures who once had be... ...rval, Kelly, the promoter, came and talked to Rivera. “Throw it, damn you,” he rasped in a harsh low voice. “You gotta lay down, Rivera. Stick with me...

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..., Pigs, idiots!” Oftentimes he croaks harsh sarcasm, having really a rough rasp- ing tongue, and a very deep fund of contempt for fine outsides; 434 ... ...h thunder to the general ear and heart. And deft Stock-makers do gouge and rasp; and all men bestir themselves, according to their cunning:—in the lan...

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...summer-drinks. In his house, lemonade, currant-juice, orange-mixtures, and rasp- berry-vinegar were used by the quart. He frequently dis- approved of ...