D'ye think mouths can be filled, and hunger satisfied, by laziness and sleep!" "You'll have your say, Eester," said the husband, using the provincial pronunciation of America for the name, and regarding his noisy companions, with a look of habitual tolerance rather than of affection.
"But the birds you shall have, if your own tongue don't frighten them to take too high a flight.

Ay, woman," he continued, standing on the very spot whence he had so rudely banished Ellen, which he had by this time gained, "and buffaloe too, if my eye can tell the animal at the distance of a Spanish league." "Come down; come down, and be doing, instead of talking.

A talking man is no better than a barking dog.

I shall hang out the cloth, if any of the red-skins show themselves, in time to give you notice.

But, Ishmael, what have you been killing, my man; for it was your rifle I heard a few minutes agone, unless I have lost my skill in sounds." "Poh! 'twas to frighten the hawk you see sailing above the rock." "Hawk, indeed! at your time of day to be shooting at hawks and buzzards, with eighteen open mouths to feed.