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'Why, even Robert might happen to think of a really useful wish if he didn't injure his poor little brains trying so hard to think. Shut up, Bobs, I tell you! You'll have the whole show over. A struggle on the edge of a water-butt is exciting, but damp. When it was over, and the boys were partially dried, Anthea said: 'It really was you began it, Bobs. We're wasting the whole morning.
Jonathan Wild was the hidden force of the London criminals, to whom he sold his brains and his organization on a fifteen per cent. commission. The old wheel turns, and the same spoke comes up. It's all been done before, and will be again. I'll tell you one or two things about Moriarty which may interest you." "You'll interest me, right enough."
"And so," she whispered, her voice choked, "we women get left...." He looked away from her, a little exasperated. She cried so easily and so superfluously, and he knew that these tears were more for herself than for Neville. And she didn't really come into what he had been saying at all; he had been talking about brains. "It's all right as far as most women are concerned," he said.
Thousands of men of the best brain-power in this country are going into committee-rooms and conferences every day from nine in the morning till twelve at night to devise better and more efficacious means of stopping the progress of the Hun. If these men's brains are of value, and we know they are, then the more clearly they act and the longer they last, the better for the country.
At these words I saw his features soften; and he cried out, 'D n me, I admire the king of Sweden of all the men in the world; and he is a rascal that is ashamed of doing anything which the king of Sweden did. And yet, if any king of Sweden in France was to tell me that his sister had more merit than mine, by G I'd knock his brains about his ears.
"He understands a good deal more than we'll ever be able to say to him. He's got brains. Evelyn Gray is staying with them." "I know she is. I dined there last night. She's looking very pretty." "She is pretty," said Harry, "and she's got pretty hands and feet; most pretty women haven't. It's usually the woman with a face that would stop a clock that has pretty feet." "Like Mrs.
He couldn't have said she had 'brains'! That girl in the car was impertinent." The heat and the wind and remorse gave Eleanor such a prolonged headache that Maurice, in real anxiety and without consulting her wrote to Mrs. Houghton that "Nelly was awfully used up by the hot weather," and might he bring her to Green Hill now, instead of later?
And what made Loring's indifference so exasperating was that Strain himself was forced to see that Loring was not only no fool, as he admitted, but a man of brains, courage and ability, which he would not concede aloud.
"If we'd used our brains, we'd have more bombs than Weald can hope for! We could turn that whole planet into a smoking cinder!" "Which," said Calhoun acidly, "would give you some satisfaction but not an ounce of food! And food's more important than satisfaction. Now, I'm going to take off for Weald again.
I often think how, at sunset, the past must come home to new-chum blacksheep, sent out to Australia and drifted into the Bush. I used to think that they couldn't have much brains, or the loneliness would drive them mad. I'd decided to let James take the team for a trip or two.
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