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Well, how could I, with all my gifts, make any valuable preparation against a near-sighted, cross-eyed, pudding-headed clown who would aim himself at the wrong tree and hit the right one? And that is what he did. He went for the wrong tree, which was, of course, the right one by mistake, and up he started. Matters were serious now. We remained still, and awaited developments.
Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually. When clouds are seen, wise men put on their cloaks. The prevailing evil of the present day is extravagance.
Perhaps this had been why the costume given him had been not too well fitting, not too nice in detail. Perhaps this was why they had allowed the cross-eyed man to appear as his valet. He was quite sure this man would not do as a valet in a high-class picture. Anyway, however unimportant the scene, he felt that he had acquitted himself with credit.
"Well, we'd collect our freight in advance, wouldn't we? And the British Government will guarantee to reimburse us if the ship is lost, will it not? Well, then, where's the risk?" "There's the danger to the crew." "Any man that goes to sea knows he has to take a chance. Bet you Mike Murphy could take that cargo of livestock across and bring another cargo back. He's luckier than a cross-eyed coon.
Water won't hurt any one, of course, if care is used not to forget and drink any of it, but it is this horrible suspense and uncertainty about facing the nozzle of a garden hose in the hands of a cross-eyed woman that unnerves and paralyzes me. Instantaneous death is nothing to me.
"But how can I?" retorted Arethusa. "I've only got two eyes. How can I watch my ball and my stick and where I'm going to knock it, and everything, when they won't look but one way at once? I'm not cross-eyed!" Ross gave it up as beyond his powers of reasoning. So Arethusa put her driver back in the bag and announced that she would do the caddying.
'It natchelly stands to reason that a big scaffolded-up man like Stony Bugg can chamber more licker than a little runt like that Burnett. Why, he could do it if Burnett was spangled all over with Adamses' apples and all of them palpitating like skeered lizards. He could do it if Burnett's eyes were so fur apart he was cross-eyed behind.
"You know what Lizzie Ann West says about you?" "She ain't said she won't come?" He was dismayed and frankly terrified. "She says you're dreadful spruce-lookin' and you're younger'n ever you was." The cap'n laughed. "That all?" he inquired. "Well, she must be cross-eyed." "No," said Mariana, "she ain't cross-eyed; only she thinks you're a terrible likely man."
"Well, see that yer don't, yer cross-eyed whelps see that yer don't." "And do you mean to say, you collection of squashes, that you were laughing at me?" The pump-man, still grasping a wrench in each hand, started across the deck after them. "D'y' mean to " Down the gangway they retreated in a body. Noyes looked to the captain, but the captain was looking out over the ship's side.
I'd better go to him on Sunday morning. After Saturday night he will be a little cross-eyed and sleepy, for he will want to get drunk, and his wife won't give him any money, and at such a time, a ten-kopek piece in his hand will he will become more fit to reason with, and then the cloak and that " Thus argued Akaky Akakiyevich with himself regained his courage, and waited until the first Sunday, when, seeing from afar that Petrovich's wife had left the house, he went straight to him.
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