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Grey-green uniforms were piled endlessly in heaps. Kiel previously stolen from Denmark, but then reconstructed and raised to the war degree at last was open. The navy was ready. The army was ready. Against any possible combination of European forces, the oiled machine was prepared. Petersburg was then in the throes of a general strike which the Wilhelmstrasse had engineered.
Bumpus groaned as he listened to all this terrible talk. His mind was already on fire with anticipations of what the immediate future might bring forth. Still, on occasion Bumpus could show considerable valor; and several times in the past he had astonished his chums by certain feats which he had engineered.
He was old old enough to have begotten you and not nice to look upon, but as the world goes, clean. He had done no wrong, followed the letter of the law, was respectable. Further, and to the point, he possessed some several paltry mines, a score; it does not matter: and he owned a few miles of lands, and engineered deals, and clipped coupons. He "
William F. McCombs, chairman of the National Committee which engineered a college president into the White House, gave this advice to our academic youth: "The college man must forget or never let it creep into his head that he's a highbrow. If it does creep in, he's out of politics." To which one might reply in Mr.
"Because they were no-account trash themselves!" returned Ware, shaking his head. "We'll all go down in this muss you're fixing for!" he added. "No, you won't, Tom. I'll look out for my friends. You'll be warned in time." "A hell of a lot of good a warning will do!" growled Ware. "The business will be engineered so that you, and those like you, will not be disturbed.
Inglethorp's large sized bottle of medicine when it came from Coot's? The risk is practically nil. The tragedy will not take place until nearly a fortnight later. If anyone has seen either of them touching the medicine, they will have forgotten it by that time. Miss Howard will have engineered her quarrel, and departed from the house. The lapse of time, and her absence, will defeat all suspicion.
A friend of his, who had held it, had enlarged upon the delightful hypocrisy of the sleepy little capital, where everything was engineered and "wangled" for the comfort of the Diplomatic Corps. He reflected, also, that The Hague was the august cradle of a new international law, and finally went so far as to invoke the argument that he would be giving pleasure to his mother.
But believe me, Senor Reade, you may command me as far as my humble influence with our government goes!" The situation was certainly one to make Tom think hard. He was certain that Don Luis had engineered the whole situation, even to urging Gato on to a part in this grin drama. "Well, you've got us!" sighed Tom. "You will find me your best friend, always," protested Montez.
Ben stared at him without replying. "I'll tell you," said Ted. "He's Skip Riley, thief and ex-convict, the leader of the Flying Demons. He is the man who caused us to lose our money last night, and who engineered all the mysterious robberies hereabouts. Do you reckon he intends to come back?" Ben's eyes started from their sockets in surprise. "I I don't know," he stammered.
Here comes a curious fact, and one prominent in the history of man, for this group, led by two unbalanced men, actually engineered a real reform, for they brought about a codification of the laws of their State, a simple codification that made it possible to know what the laws on any matter really are.
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