 | Rudyard Kipling - 1907 - 818 pages
...note. I halted by the painters. Said one, dipping deep in the white lead: 'Um, ah! This ought to 300 make the French sickish. Almost 'ear 'em coughin',...stepping back to catch the effect of a peculiarly juicy stroke — head a little aside and one eye shut : ' Well, we've waited about long enough, 'aven't we?'... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1913 - 412 pages
...note. I halted by the painters. Said one, dipping deep in the white lead : 'Um, ah! This ought to 300 make the French sickish. Almost 'ear 'em coughin',...stepping back to catch the effect of a peculiarly juicy stroke — head a little aside and one eye shut : ' Well, we've waited about long enough, 'aven't we?'... | |
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Khartoum brush o' yours.' After a long pause, stepping back to catch the effect of a peculiarly juicy stroke — head a little aside and one eye shut : ' Well, we've waited about long enough, 'aven't we?' Bosun's mate with a fine mixture of official severity... 