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We're better off without a coward like that. He'd be getting under our feet all the time, or else opening the doors to the Caesars, with the idea of currying favor with them. Where did you ever pick up such an arrant little poltroon? Most Japs are plucky enough." "Hade lent him to us," said Milo, evidently impressed by Brice's athletic demonstration against the little Oriental.
"Halloo, honey! Hold the fort a few minutes longer. Here we are. Bless her, hasn't she been a brick to stay here all alone like this and a tenderfoot at that?" I could have cried with joy. But I saw that there were men with Kate two men white men and I laughed instead. I had not been brave I had been an arrant little coward, but I vowed that nobody, not even Kate, should suspect it.
They had helped him last night to make the city his own; they had helped him this morning to recover his balance; they helped him now to see straight again. But, after all, it was arrant nonsense for Hamilton to act like this. Admitting the man believed in himself, and Covington believed that much, he was, after all, Teddy Hamilton.
Burnet, on Lord Russell's trial Finch summed up the evidence against him. But ... shewed more of a vicious eloquence, in turning matters with some subtlety against the prisoners, than of solid or sincere reasoning. Swift. Afterwards Earl of Aylesford, an arrant rascal. Burnet. Swift. Jesuitical. Burnet.
"Your daughter is the most arrant little liar I ever knew!" The poor father shrank back. Perhaps he knew, by sad experience, that Aunt Henrietta's condemnation was not altogether without foundation. His look expressed such unutterable pain that Christian came forward and spoke out strongly, almost angrily.
I am willing to admit that some so-called mediums of whom the public have heard much are arrant impostors who have taken advantage of the public demand for spiritualistic excitement to fill their purses with easily earned guineas; whilst others who have no pecuniary motive for imposture are tempted to cheat, it would seem, solely by a desire for notoriety. Second Theory.
The whole party of Short Pipes in the course of a single night had changed into arrant old women a metamorphosis only to be paralleled by the prodigies recorded by Livy as having happened at Rome at the approach of Hannibal, when statues sweated in pure affright, goats were converted into sheep, and cocks, turning into hens, ran cackling about the street.
I loved to look upon the heavens, and to bask in the rays of the sun, or to sit beneath hedgerows and listen to the chirping of the birds, indulging the while in musing and meditation as far as my very limited circle of ideas would permit; but, unlike my brother, who was at this time at school, and whose rapid progress in every branch of instruction astonished and delighted his preceptors, I took no pleasure in books, whose use, indeed, I could scarcely comprehend, and bade fair to be as arrant a dunce as ever brought the blush of shame into the cheeks of anxious and affectionate parents.
"Certainly," said I, "my conduct, on this occasion, proves that. What I have brought to you, of my own accord; what I have restored to you, fully and unconditionally, it is plain Watson embezzled, and that I was aiding in the fraud. To restore what was never stolen always betrays the thief. To give what might be kept without suspicion is, without doubt, arrant knavery.
"What say you to that, gentlemen?" he cried. "Egad, I'll be sworn he deserves credit, an arrant young spark out of the Colonies, scarce turned nineteen, defeating a duke of the realm on horseback, and preaching the gospel of 'no taxation' at Brooks's Club! Nor the favour of Sandwich or March could turn him from his principles."
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