Don't lay a-stern, you dog," pulling me forward.

My grandfather (who was laid up with the gout) received this relation, after his long absence, with that coldness of civility which was peculiar to him; told him he was glad to see him, and desired him to sit down.

"Thank ye, thank ye, sir, I had as lief stand," said my uncle; "for my own part, I desire nothing of you; but, if you have any conscience at all, do something for this poor boy, who has been used at a very unchristian rate.

Unchristian do I call it?
I am sure the Moors in Barbary have more humanity than to leave their little ones to want.
I would fain know why my sister's son is more neglected than that there fair-weather Jack" (pointing to the young squire, who with the rest of my cousins had followed us into the room).

"Is not he as near akin to you as the other?
Is he not much handsomer and better built than that great chucklehead?
Come, come, consider, old gentleman, you are going in a short time to give an account of your evil actions.