The horthe danthed the polka till he wath
dead beat (he would have walthed if he hadn't been in harneth), and then I gave him the word and he went to thleep comfortable.
Then we had to find the rule and the string again, and a new hole was made; and, about midnight, the picture would be up - very crooked and insecure, the wall for yards round looking as if it had been smoothed down with a rake, and everybody
dead beat and wretched - except Uncle Podger.
Thence, bearing generally south-east and making slow progress in the
dead beat to windward, the Ariel dropped anchor in nearly every harbour of the Solomons, from Choiseul and Ronongo islands, to the islands of Kulambangra, Vangunu, Pavuvu, and New Georgia.
"My horse is
dead beat, and I can't get him no further than the stable."
Guppy and his friend are
dead beat before they have well begun.
He was
dead beat with roaming the streets, without a penny in his pocket, all day long.
We got so close in that we could see the stubble fires burning, and I, being then
dead beat, fell into a light sleep, for I had never let the rudder out of my own hands, that we might get home the faster.
The head engineer has distinctly said that there never was such times - meaning weather - and four good hands are ill, and have given in,
dead beat. Several berths are full of water, and all the cabins are leaky.
Here we are,
dead beat, and yet I know we're close to the run in, if we knew the country."
This end attained, the kettle, being
dead beat, boiled over, and was taken off the fire.
The airy young Barnacle replied that they grew tired, got
dead beat, got lamed, got their backs broken, died off, gave it up, went in for other games.
I judged she would be proud of me for helping these rapscallions, because rapscallions and
dead beats is the kind the widow and good people takes the most interest in.