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"We've captured fifty pieces of artillery and ten thousand prisoners!" "Then what'ell's the use er hurryin' us on er empty stomach but we're a-comin', honey we're a-comin'!" The colonel of a regiment snatched his hat off and was getting his men ready for the charge. He waved his hand toward Ned: "Make that damn-fool get out of the way. I'm going to charge.
The double-jack struck her hand, glanced and landed another blow on her knee; one of those terribly painful blows that take your breath and make you see stars without crippling you permanently. Casey doesn't like to talk about it, but once he growled that he did about every damn-fool thing he could with a double-jack, except brain her.
As for the girl, she's got a showy streak in her she's your regular American woman of nowadays the kind of daughter your sort of mother and my sort of damn-fool father breed up.
He was part of the white man's life, therefore his contempt for the simple awe of the rest of his race, at the witnessing of the wedding ceremony, still claimed his profoundest "damn-fool." Never were his feelings of superiority more deeply stirred. Bill Brudenell piloted the vessel which bore Ailsa Mowbray towards the new life for which she had renounced her old home.
'Damn-fool superstition, he muttered to me time and again. But of course he was a bit nervous, and so was I. Being in the minority is awkward. The human brain simply isn't strong enough to encounter organized opposition. It wears. You spend too much energy being on the defensive. "After a time, when the song was done, the old hag seemed pretty well played out.
All expression died out of his face, but he spoke to his young courtier, who fluttered forward sniggering with amusement. "His Highness would like to know if his Excellency is interested in a Road. His Highness thinks it a damn-fool road. His Highness much regrets that he cannot even let it go beyond Kohara. His Highness wishes his Excellency good-morning." Linforth made no answer to the gibe.
"Why, what a damn-fool question for you to ask, Mr. Dunstan! Isn't it right that we should look to the comfort of our helpless fellow-man? Isn't it right that we strong men should give of our strength to the weak?
'Well, I said, 'I hope you think that our Works are just as honestly conducted as the Knight Mills'; fact was, I knew a thing or two about Henry B. And what do you suppose Dolliver said? 'Oh, yes, he said, 'you are honest, Mrs. Maitland, but you ain't damn-fool honest." She laughed loudly, and her son laughed too, this time in genuine amusement; but Nannie looked prim, at which Mrs.
"Three million feet ain't worth talkin' about," "You make me tired," "Say your little say the way you oughter," "Found purty nigh two millions pocketed on Mare's Island, or we wouldn't a had that much," "Damn-fool undertaking, anyhow." "Men," cried Thorpe, "I have been very fortunate. From failure success has come. But never have I been more fortunate than in my friends.
"As for your mother's honesty, Blair, if you had waited a minute, I'd have told you that as soon as I found the idea was practical I handed it over to Kraas. I'm damn-fool honest, I suppose." But this time she did not laugh at her joke. Blair was instant with apologies; he had not meant he had not intended "Of course you would do the square thing," he declared.
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