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Pictures, churches, golf-greens, cabinet members nothing safe. Pouring their beastly filth into pillar boxes. Women one knows. Hussies, though! Want the vote rot! Awful rot! Don't blame you for America. Wish I might, too. Good thing, my word! No backbone in Downing Street. Let the fiends out again directly they're hungry. No system! No firmness! No dash! Starve 'em proper, I would."
As teachers, they have given the South a commendable system of city schools and large numbers of private normal-schools and academies. Colored college-bred men have worked side by side with white college graduates at Hampton; almost from the beginning the backbone of Tuskegee's teaching force has been formed of graduates from Fisk and Atlanta.
But the episode which broke the backbone of Bee's complacency and virtually gave us back our freedom was this: True to her word, Bee got us an English coachman and a footman, and put them into a very smart and highly expensive livery.
We found Thaddeus Hobson alone, in the vast hall looking blankly at the fire. "Jeff," he said solemnly, "you sure brought me luck to-night if you can call it such being scared into a human icicle. Br-r-r! Shall I ever get the cold out of my backbone? But somehow, somehow that foggy feller outside sort of changed my look on things. It made me feel kinder toward living folks. Ain't it strange!"
Dan ran up, and placed his bare arms under the wounded shoulder, and helped to raise and set him on his staggering legs. "I hope you are not much hurt, my lord?" said the Captain, doing his best to smile. "They have done for me at last," the hero gasped. "Hardy, my backbone is shot through."
Looking westward, we see the winding its way from the woods of Topshider; the Servian shore is abrupt, the Austrian flat, and subject to inundation; the prospect on the north-west being closed in by the dim dark line of the Frusca Gora, or "Wooded Mountain," which forms the backbone of Slavonia, and is the high wooded region between the Save and the Drave.
Then she commenced dancing; and when she turned her back toward the stranger he saw that she was hollow. She had no back, backbone, or insides, but only lungs and heart. Her husband presently joined in the dance, and their attitudes and grimaces were so ludicrous that the stranger could scarcely keep from laughing.
Now, food, sahib for the love of Allah, food, before my belt-plate and my backbone touch!" "I wonder what the damned old infidel is dreaming of!" swore Cunningham, as Mahommed Gunga staggered to the chamber in the rock where a serving-man was already heaping victuals for him. "Have me called in four hours, sahib! In four hours I will be a man again!"
The backbone of each of his numerous serious plays is some conflict, reflecting directly or indirectly the prejudices, antagonisms, shortcomings, and struggles of modern German social, religious, and civic life.
Somebody had spoken of inviting Jim Caven to the feast, but no one cared particularly for the fellow, and he had been left out. "Perhaps he'll tell on us," suggested Larry, but Frank shook his head. "He hasn't got backbone enough to do it. He's a worse coward than Mumps was."
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