" "Now you are mocking me!" cried Allen, and as I related to Colonel Washington the story of his little bout with Langlade, we rode on laughing, the best of friends.

Preliminary bout.

"Yon was a merry bout, Andrew," he said, and his voice sounded very far away.

In the good town of Blyth there lived a stout tanner, celebrated far and near for feats of strength and many tough bouts at wrestling and the quarterstaff.

How they illustrate the absolutely instinctive and necessary tendency of the natural man (notwithstanding occasional bouts of fury) to aid his fellow and fall into some sort of understanding with him!

A sharp bout of paddling, puffing, and splashing shot us into the peaceful waters of the Dal Lake, over which every traveller has gushed and raved.

I hate that baronet, and Ruyven knows it, and harps ever on a foolish drinking-bout where all fell to the table, even Walter Butler, and that slow adder Sir John among the first.

[Footnote 9: He makes a sudden attack, without warning of the fourth bout.]

His gaoler told me he had been mighty wild during his examination before the Council, and had had frequent bouts of madness since, but for the moment he was peaceable.

Is this murder or jest a friendly bout?

One of the girlsMiss Fannie's girlsmarried bout when I did.

Perhaps a snake or a lizard had dropped on his mother from the roof before he was born; perhaps it was the memory of some hideous fever-bout in a tent.

He was no match for his sister in the humorous bouts waged over his head against his father's prejudices and cherished social schemes.

Ah use ter get a many lashin bout pickin cotton.

That was what the Ku Klux was mad bout.

Wes had come into the house for another shirthe had split the one he was wearing in a mighty bout with the grubbing hoeand he entered the kitchen from the inner door just in time to catch the words.

My sister has had The modest bout with them: 'tis such a wench.

You know the value the King sets on his nightly smoking-bouts.

Run me clear from the plum orchard bout a mile from the house.

I wot this was no playful bout at quarterstaff, but a grim and serious fight of real earnest.

I heerd plenty bout the Ku Klux.

He could also do a little fighting if it came in his way, and in the course of his Town Council career he had one or two pretty bouts with some of his opponents.

The story is this:At a prolonged drinking bout, one of the party remarked, "What gars the laird of Garskadden look sae gash?"

His supply was then exhausted, but before the Turk could use his weapons Smith got to grips and a rare wrestling bout followed.

" "Nay," quoth Will Stutely, "I hold with our master, that he hath had the pleasanter doings of the two, for he hath had two stout bouts at quarterstaff this day.