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They stood looking at each other like a couple o' game-cocks, and I could see as plain as a pike-staff 'ow frightened both of 'em was o' losing me.

Then he set off down the street in quest of a staff.

He did not, however, work as one of the regular staff of lecturers until the next year.

A capable editor was found in Edmund Yates; "Phiz" and other well-known artists and writers joined the staff, and 100,000 copies of the first number were printed.

When The Comic Times changed hands in 1856, and was reduced to half its size, the whole staff left it and started a new venture, The Train.

As Mr. Dodgson knew several members of the Punch staff, he used to send up any little incidents or remarks that particularly amused him to that paper.

Each was commanded by a governor and garrisoned by a score or two of soldiers; and each with its outlying factories had a staff of perhaps a dozen factors, as many sub-factors, twice as many assistants, and a few bookkeepers and auditors, as well as a corps of white artisans and an abundance of native interpreters, boatmen, carriers and domestic servants.

Others housed and tended them separately under the charge of a select staff of nurses and guardians and with frequent inspection from headquarters.

The overseer's house had its proportionate staff of nine domestics with two seamstresses added, and it was also headquarters both for the nursing corps and a group engaged in minor industrial pursuits.

The bachelor staff was most probably responsible for the mulatto and quadroon offspring and was doubtless responsible also for the occasional manumission of a woman or child.

Worthy Park bought nearly all of its hardware, dry goods, drugs and sundries in London, and its herrings for the negroes and salt pork and beef for the white staff in Cork.

With my knapsack and pilgrim-staff, I ask not their aid.

END OF PART I. VIEWS A-FOOT; OR EUROPE SEEN WITH KNAPSACK AND STAFF.

We cut off the bends of the road by footpaths up the rocks, which we ascended in single file, one of the Americans going ahead and little Pietro with his staff and bundle bringing up the rear.

"I beg your pardon, sir," he said, very politely, "but would you mind giving me a sketch of the military situation round your part?" I gave him an outline of the affair which had caused the Belgian headquarters staff to shift from Furnes, and though it was, I fancy, slightly over-coloured, he was very much obliged...

Some of the officers of the Belgian staff were in the room downstairs, but not a soul was hurt.

They were crossing these flagged stones on the way to the shambles, or coming back from the shell-stricken towns, bas, as the place of blood is called, or taking out new loads of food for guns and men, or bringing in reports to admirals and the staff, or going to churches to pray for men who have done these jobs before, and now, perhaps, lie still, out of it.

Motor-cars came whirling up with French staff officers in dandy uniforms (the stains of blood and mud would only be omitted by Mr. Willie Clarkson).

I suppose the agony of hanging forward from the arms, and the blows of staff and stone, had stunned the ladwho had offended Ibrahim, it appeared, by preventing him from entering my brother's houseprobably to poison his water-lotah[20] and gurrahat the door of which he, Moussa Isa, lay sick.

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