автордың кітабынан сөз тіркестері  The Ransom of Red Chief and other stories

O.Henry

hitched the horse

“Not right away,” says I. “We'll stay her

a fraudulent town-lot scheme

tight, a mortgage fancier and a stern, upright collection-plate passer and forecloser.

«The Ransom of Red Chief» and Other Stories / «Вождь краснокожих» и другие рассказы

I was to be broiled at the stake at the rising of the sun.

Doesn't the law know the feeling of pity?

Never trust a woman that's in love!

a grown person with masculine proclivities and habits of self-defense, but there is a time when all systems of egotism and predominance fail

twined in Bill's hair