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It got half of it," he announced; "but I got a whack at it jes' the same.

It's damned tame, whatever it is, comin' in here at feedin' time an' gettin' its whack of fish.

And resolutely thump and whack us?

I reckon our pow- wows won't do us or anyone much harm, so let's have another whack at the whence, why and whither this evening, doctor.

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Nothing told me then that she, a few years hence, would be the wife of one entirely unknown to me as yet, but destined hereafter to become a closer friend than even herself, more intimate than that unmannerly lad of seventeen, by whom I was collared in the passage, on coming down, and well-nigh jerked off my equilibrium, and who, in correction for his impudence, received a resounding whack over the sconce, which, however, sustained no serious injury from the infliction; as, besides being more than commonly thick, it was protected by a redundant shock of short, reddish curls, that my mother called auburn.

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Whack, whack, whack, come his blows, breaking down the gipsy's guard, and threatening to reach his head every moment.

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But when the balls already flung at me began to come back for a second whack, I realized the situation.

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I remember that he took his whack of champagne with the nervous freedom of a man at high pressure, and have no doubt I kept him in countenance by an equal indulgence; but Raffles, ever an exemplar in such matters, was more abstemious even than his wont, and very poor company to boot.

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If ever I trained for another fight, you bet I'd take a whack at plowin'.

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She never licks anybody -- whacks 'em over the head with her thimble -- and who cares for that, I'd like to know.

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Though your worship was not so badly off, having in your arms that incomparable beauty you spoke of; but I, what did I have, except the heaviest whacks I think I had in all my life?

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Rose couldn't help laughing as Steve sparred away at a fat sofa-pillow, to illustrate his meaning; and, having given it several scientific whacks, he pulled down his cuffs and smiled upon her with benign pity for her feminine ignorance of this summary way of settling a quarrel.

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