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"Cuba!" he cried. "I've got a crack little schooner out in the bay here, and I've got a hundred thousand dollars' worth of loot aboard of her. I've tried beach-combing for a while, and now I'll try filibustering. It may be a crazy idea, but it's better than dancing. I'd rather lead an expedition than a german, and you can chew on that, Nathaniel Ridgeway."
There were six men near the office, bronzed mountaineers, men of guns and grit, men who had spent their lives facing danger; but, when it came to facing a skunk, each looked at Nimrod as one would at a crazy man and had important business elsewhere. For once I thoroughly appreciated their point of view, but as there was no one else I took one end of the box, and we started.
I believe a man and wife ought to belong to the same church, 'thy God shall be my God' and I wasn't goin' to give up what I'd been taught for any crazy notions Doc had got into his head. I told him so, plain. "Then Doc took a poetry-writing spell, but he wasn't no great hand at it. I told him in plain words he would be better off rollin' allopathy pills.
And she snatched up her cape from the couch and started toward the door. "You?" cried Zoie, in alarm, "and leave me alone?" "It's our only chance," argued Aggie. "I'll have to do it now, before Alfred gets back." "But Aggie," protested Zoie, clinging to her departing friend, "suppose that crazy mother should come back?"
The whole teams go absolutely crazy when they sight them or get wind of them, and there are literally hundreds along some of the cracks.
"I'd rather have my hopes raised just to be disappointed than never to have any hopes at all." "It would be lots of fun," Grace went on, her eyes shining at the mere thought. "We've heard so much about these Hostess Houses that I've just been crazy to see one. But to live right there at the camp "
From time to time the waves concealed it, but the next instant it rose on their crests, still advancing. "Those crazy fellows actually seem to be trying to meet us," said Trahern. "Those are not men," replied Philip. "If men tried to cut through the waves in that fashion their ship would be battered to pieces."
"I have the originals." "How much do you want for them?" "One hundred thousand francs." "You are crazy," said Daspry. "Why, the major gave you only twenty thousand, and that was like money thrown into the sea, as the boat was a failure at the preliminary trials." "They didn't understand the plans." "The plans are not complete." "Then, why do you ask me for them?" "Because I want them.
Ditmar exclaimed, and the waiter smiled as he served them. "Here's how!" he said, giving her a glass containing a yellow liquid. She tasted it, made a grimace, and set it down hastily. "What's the trouble?" he asked, laughing, as she hurried to the table and took a drink of water. "It's horrid!" she cried. "Oh, you'll get over that idea," he told her. "You'll be crazy about 'em."
When this happened it was put in the Juanita's log. "So the Cap'n be still harpin' on that?" he said, "Miss Jinny, he's just plumb crazy on a pilot's qualifications." "He says that you are the best pilot on the river, but I don't believe it," said Virginia. William cackled again.
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