In the same moment he looked up and saw his dear brother Jacob close upon him, holding the pitchfork so that the bright smooth prongs were a yard in advance of his own body, and about a foot off David's.
As for Jacob, he had thrust his pitchfork into the ground, and had thrown himself down beside it, in thorough abandonment to the unprecedented pleasure of having five lozenges in his mouth at once, blinking meanwhile, and making inarticulate sounds of gustative content.
"Ah, Master Jacob; he does not leave you, then, that Master Jacob?"
"Had you only seen Master Jacob at that moment!" continued Rosa.
They appeared to think that we had arrived for the express purpose of seeing
Jacob Postlethwaite caned.
such a scholar of
Jacob, such a child of the baby, such a room of the one up stairs!
Yet
Jacob Henderson was fair and square, business-like and methodical.
Only
Jacob, who was a person afflicted with many superstitions, wiped the sweat from his forehead as he leaned over the bow of his boat and looked down into that fathomless space.
Poor
Jacob Doodle-calf could not go to the school with the other boys, and one fine afternoon, about three o'clock (the school broke up at four), Tom found him ambling about the street, and pressed him into a visit to the school-porch.
Jacob took advantage of Esau's consuming hunger to rob him of his birthright and the great honor and consideration that belonged to the position; by treachery and falsehood he robbed him of his father's blessing; he made of him a stranger in his home, and a wanderer.
In
Jacob's Island, the warehouses are roofless and empty; the walls are crumbling down; the windows are windows no more; the doors are falling into the streets; the chimneys are blackened, but they yield no smoke.
`But you were always a good man of business,
Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself.
Picture the corps de ballet scuttling down the
Jacob's ladder and dividing the suicide's rope among themselves in less time than it takes to write!
"It's
Jacob Boiler, an' - he's remembered Johnstown!
The assistant-surgeon for whom Philip dressed was called
Jacobs. He was a short, fat man, with an exuberant joviality, a bald head, and a loud voice; he had a cockney accent, and was generally described by the students as an `awful bounder'; but his cleverness, both as a surgeon and as a teacher, caused some of them to overlook this.
