son of a gun

That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.

Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.

My son,” said Grabantak one evening to Chingatok, “if we are henceforth to live in peace, why not unite and become one nation?

Twice a year the formal invitation was sent out by the old nobleman to his only son, and to his two nephews.

He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!