Приклади вживання Harpooneer Англійська мовою та їх переклад на Українською
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I think of a harpooneer who stayed out of a.
The devil he does," says I."Where is that harpooneer?
Do you pretend to say, landlord, that this harpooneer is actually engaged this blessed.
I could not help it,but I began to feel suspicious of this"dark complexioned" harpooneer.
Depend upon it, landlord, that harpooneer is a dangerous man.".
The devil fetch that harpooneer, thought I, but stop, couldn't I steal a march on him-- bolt his door inside, and jump into his bed, not to be wakened by the most violent knockings?
I have changed my mind about that harpooneer.--I shan't sleep with him.
Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person's bed, I began to think that after all I mightbe cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.
Lord save me, thinks I, that must be the harpooneer, the infernal head-peddler.
I concluded that this harpooneer, in the course of his distant voyages, must have met with a similar adventure.
Oh, no," said he, looking a sort of diabolically funny,"the harpooneer is a dark complexioned chap.
He had been a sailor and a harpooneer in his youth, but for many years past had dedicated his life to the ministry.
I sat down on the side of the bed, and commenced thinking about this head-peddling harpooneer, and his door mat.
The more I pondered over this harpooneer, the more I abominated the thought of sleeping with him.
Now, while all these ideas were passing through me like lightning, this harpooneer never noticed me at all.
It was fair to presume that being a harpooneer, his linen or woollen, as the case might be, would not be of the tidiest, certainly none of the finest.
Stop your grinning," shouted I,"and why didn't you tell me that that infernal harpooneer was a cannibal?".
I now demand of you to speak out and tell me who and what this harpooneer is, and whether I shall be in all respects safe to spend the night with him.
May be not," taking out a stick and whittling a toothpick,"but I rayther guess youwill be done BROWN if that ere harpooneer hears you a slanderin' his head.".
But could it be possible that any sober harpooneer would get into a door mat, and parade the streets of any Christian town in that sort of guise?
And when it comes to sleeping with an unknown stranger, in a strange inn, in a strange town,and that stranger a harpooneer, then your objections indefinitely multiply.
And about this harpooneer, whom I have not yet seen, you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories tending to beget in me an uncomfortable feeling towards the man whom you design for my bedfellow--a sort of connexion, landlord, which is an intimate and confidential one in the highest degree.
Besides, it was getting late, and my decent harpooneer ought to be home and going bedwards.
But be easy, be easy, this here harpooneer I have been tellin' you of has just arrived from the south seas, where he bought up a lot of'balmed New Zealand heads(great curios, you know), and he's sold all on'em but one, and that one he's trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow's Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin' human heads about the streets when folks is goin' to churches.
For who could tell but what the next morning,so soon as I popped out of the room, the harpooneer might be standing in the entry, all ready to knock me down!
But beginning to feel very cold now, half undressed as I was,and remembering what the landlord said about the harpooneer's not coming home at all that night, it being so very late, I made no more ado, but jumped out of my pantaloons and boots, and then blowing out the light tumbled into bed, and commended myself to the care of heaven.
But I stood irresolute; when looking at a clock in the corner,he exclaimed"I vum it's Sunday--you won't see that harpooneer to-night; he's come to anchor somewhere-- come along then; DO come; WON'T ye come?".
I told him that I never liked to sleep two in a bed; that if I should ever do so, it would depend upon who the harpooneer might be, and that if he(the landlord) really had no other place for me, and the harpooneer was not decidedly objectionable, why rather than wander further about a strange town on so bitter a night, I would put up with the half of any decent man's blanket.
And in the first place, you will be so good as to unsay that story about selling his head,which if true I take to be good evidence that this harpooneer is stark mad, and I have no idea of sleeping with a madman; and you, sir, YOU I mean, landlord, YOU, sir, by trying to induce me to do so knowingly, would thereby render yourself liable to a criminal prosecution.".