Come on!' and the cabman dashed his hatupon the ground, with a reckless disregard of his own private property,and knocked Mr. Pickwick's spectacles off, and followed up the attackwith a blow on Mr. Pickwick's nose, and another on Mr. Pickwick's chest,and a third in Mr. Snodgrass's eye, and a fourth, by way of variety,in Mr. Tupman's waistcoat, and then danced into the road, and then backagain to the pavement, and finally dashed the whole temporary supply ofbreath out of Mr. Winkle's body; and all in half a dozen seconds.
Furious with terror, he raised hisstick, and struck Edmunds a heavy blow across the face.
The lightest feather I blow intothe air, against the gay chain that ornaments my body!'In one thing I was deceived with all my cunning.
Blood, blood! I will have it!"'I turned aside with one blow the chair he hurled at me in his terror,and closed with him; and with a heavy crash we rolled upon the floortogether.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) '"Well, damn my straps and whiskers," says Tom Smart (Tom sometimes hadan unpleasant knack of swearing)--"damn my straps and whiskers," saysTom, "if this ain't pleasant, blow me!"'You'll very likely ask me why, as Tom Smart had been pretty well blownalready, he expressed this wish to be submitted to the same processagain.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) '"And don't run out, and blow him up," said Tom; "because I'll do allthat for you.
If you want to ease your mind by blowing up somebody, comeout into the court and blow up me; but it's rayther too expensive workto be carried on here.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) 'I'll follow him,' said Mr. Pickwick, with an emphatic blow on thetable.