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 have a good blunderbuss charged with slugs.

When I suspended these arms for ornament, I never dreamed of their being called into use.

Let me address them. I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Eh! sir, I can bring them to that conclusion in time than you.

I have no fancy for fighting. It is a very hard case upon a guest, when the latter end of a feast is the beginning of a fray.

Give them the old iron.