I think I have made a mess of myself."

By this time I had become pretty well acquainted with Major Brown and Captain Sweetman, who invited me to mess with them on this expedition; and a jolly mess we had.

"He was in our mess in the Philippine campaign, on the North Dakota.

" "And in any case," I continued, "what the devil is he doing messing about with George?

It was a gloomy mess on the warship.

" "No, I know it," said Patty; "and yet, papa, you wouldn't expect me to have that gorgeous French mess for dinner when we're all alone, would you?

"Nonsense, Willie," returned Tibbie, still out of temper because of the mess at the door.

He kicked the only sound chair in the Mess to splinters, cursed for two hours and sulked for twenty-four.

Also they achieved merit in other messes by peddling yarns of his wonderful innocence and his incredible absent-mindedness.

Whereas six French troopers fling their messes into the same pot, and extract a delicious soup, ten times more nutritious than the simple Rôti could ever be.

So we two agreed with old "Maggie," for a small consideration, to prepare us a separate mess without onions.

"True for you, lad; but I'm free to say that, while we've had considerable experience in the business of fightin', I never run up agin quite sich a mess as this.

With a grin he calmly unwrapped the one-time white shirt and with it began to wipe the slimy mess from his boots.

Muddling work, I calls it, messing over books.

Sally Ann, but I've got a nice mess aboard me, and I'm hanged if I know what it's all going to come to!

A slice of bread, soaked in a glass of water and kneaded into a soppy ball, struck Dalzell full in the back of the neck, plastering his collar and sending a sticky mess down his spine.

" We halted, and George went on ahead and interviewed a sentry, returning with a negative reply, and the information that Coulommiers was in a pretty mess after the looting.

Just imaginecoming from so far away and from such pretty places, and running into a mess like this ..." Rafael seemed to meditate for a moment.