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"The club is a family," he said, "the family of those who as yet have none, of those who never will have one, and of those who are bored by their own." The conversation branched off on the subject of women, glided from anecdotes to reminiscences, from reminiscences to boasts, and then to indiscreet confidences.
His exploits and escapes are in every body's mouth. He has been lodged in every round-house in the metropolis, and has broken out of them all, and boasts that no prison can hold him. We shall see. His skill has not been tried. At present, he is under the protection of Jonathan Wild." "Does that villain still maintain his power?" asked the stranger sternly.
It still boasts a toll-bar of its own, which is guarded on either side by two white wooden posts, that take the liberty of preventing all cattle, horses, and asses from evading the gate, and of unceremoniously squeezing into the narrowest limits every person who prefers pavement to the highroad.
"And so your chivalry will end in smoke," she said. "Yes, Miss Burton, the smoke of battle, where you are concerned." "I fear your wit is readier than your sword. The soldier that boasts how he would overwhelm some other foe than the one before him loses credit to the degree that he protests." "You are more exacting, Miss Burton, than the lady who threw her glove down among the lions.
We were far from water, but the evening was pleasant, and the night was still more agreeable. The "Mountains of the Plain," so called because they start suddenly from a dead level, are a section of the Tihamat-Balawiyyah range; yet they are worthy links of a chain which boasts of a Sharr.
Possibly FitzGerald himself had, by too open a display of his admiration for his partner, this typical longshoreman, contributed to the personal self-satisfaction which must have been at the bottom of the man's reasons for wishing to be free of one who had befriended him so delicately and so generously. Posh himself admits, or rather boasts, that the "break" was owing to his own action.
Some crusts of bread, some cold potatoes, and some tolerably strong beer, composed all the fare set before the traveller. Despite his previous boasts, the young man made a wry face at these Socratic preparations, while he drew his chair to the board.
This elevation is crowned by the residence of the English Governor-General, in front of which may be seen a colossal but not admirable statue of Columbus. The town boasts a small public library, a museum, theatre, several small churches, a prison, a hospital, and a bank. The government maintains one company of infantry, composed of black men, officered by whites.
Jago, and all the principal towns which I visited, and to distribute them likewise as I rode along: the children of Spain would thus be brought to know that such a work as the New Testament is in existence, a fact of which not five in one hundred were then aware, notwithstanding their so frequently- repeated boasts of their Catholicity and Christianity.
He left for home the next morning, taking his prize with him, and to this day boasts that he was "rather too much for New York, if he was from the country!" In a side-room of the main hall of the Central Police Headquarters, on the second story, in Mulberry street, is a desk at which sits an old rosy-cheeked, white-headed police officer, named McWaters. McWaters is famous in New York.
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