You want a piece of me? Go ahead and take your best shot!

Captain Higgins moused the hook with a bit of marline to prevent the block beckets from falling out under slack.

I never ceased to be amazed at his prowess at being able to lump two-hundredweight sacks of coal, which seemed as big as he was, up perhaps four flights of narrow stairs

The rotation of nine years with two fallowings, which was formerly so much in vogue, is now seldom or never to be met with; it was, however, productive of very fine crops of corn on tenacious soils which require a great deal of tillage.