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"They dinna like it, lad he! he! But they'll e'en ha' to thole it. Ye've won it, Wullie won it fair." He elbowed through the press, making for the rope-guarded inclosure in front of the committee tent, round which the people were now packing. In the door of the tent stood the secretary, various stewards, and members of the committee.
I know not, Mr. Dean, how " Who was this, pushing vehemently up, to the discomfiture of every one, elbowing the dean with as little ceremony as he might have elbowed Ketch, thrusting Hamish aside, and looking down on the river with flashing eyes? Who should it be, but Roland Yorke? For that was his usual way of pushing through a crowd; as you have heard before. "Is it true?" he gasped.
Bringing my own talents and acquirements into the market, and finding myself elbowed out by competition, I think of those who have to do the real hard necessary work of the world with more sympathy and more respect. Not that I ever despised them you must not imagine me to be so hard-hearted as that; but my feeling for them is deepened and heightened wonderfully of late.
Information came down from control, where now the ports were open on normal space and the engines were under control of the spacer's pilot. Their goal was to be the third planet, one which showed signs of atmosphere, of water and earth ready and waiting. Those who were not on flight duty crowded into the tiny central cabin, where they elbowed each other before the viewer.
Now the trail climbed among broken hills until they reached a summit. From that point on, now and again the road elbowed into view of a wide plain, and in the center of the plain there was a diminutive dump of buildings. "Woodville," said the sheriff. "Hey, you, Jig, hustle that hoss along!" Obediently the drooping Gaspar spurred his horse.
The father was a chemist, and it was intended that the lad should follow in his father's footsteps; but the stamps elbowed the drugs aside, and eventually yielded a fortune which enabled this pioneer of the stamp trade to retire and indulge his globe-trotting propensities to the full.
"I guess she was towards thirty, but she seemed even older, 'count o' bein' large an' middlin' knowin'. First I see her was a check gingham sleeve reachin' out an' she was elbowed up clost by me. 'Say, she says, 'couldn't you gimme a nickel? I'm starved hollow. She didn't look it special excep' as thin, homely folks always looks sort o' hungry.
We can get rid of bad manners, but we cannot substitute the Sedan-chair for the motor-car; and the penny post, with telephones and telegrams, has, in our own beautiful phrase, 'come to stay, and has elbowed the art of letter-writing irrevocably from among us. But notes are still written; and there is no reason why they should not be written well.
"I should think it might be disagreeable to be hemmed in and elbowed by those extraordinarily ragged and dirty people," she explained. "It's a pity they shouldn't clean themselves up a little before coming to church." "Ah, yes," he assented, "a little cleaning up wouldn't hurt them; that's very certain.
Judging by her look that he had better say nothing, he turned and went down the steps. Before he reached the bottom of them, Glum Gunn elbowed his way past him, throwing a scowl on him from his ugly eyes at the range of a few inches. The place was fuller than it had been all the evening, and with a rougher sort of company. The show would close in about an hour.
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