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'Enough's as good as a faist, yer honour, cried the stranger, skipping from side to side, and evading the blows very skilfully; 'pon my sowl, yer honour 'ud do for a fair or a wake. 'Tis madam as has the heart an' the conscience for the poor Irish, an' miss, too, asthore!
Lucy turned scarlet. Luckily, Mrs. Bazalgette was evading her niece's eye, so did not see her telltale cheek. "He was quite thrown out last night; and really, as he does not ride with us, it is too bad to neglect him in-doors." "Oh, excuse me, aunt, Mr. Dodd is your protege. You did not even tell me you were going to invite him." "I beg your pardon, that I certainly did.
This you knew, but sought by evading to turn the reader from considering the strength of this my argument. Whoso then you can judge a visible saint, one that walketh with God, you may, nay ought to judge by the same word, that God hath received him.
I soon overtook him, and as we went along, I learned that my two companions during the night were also evading the law's pursuit. One of them he described as having killed a man by accident, and ever after leading, the life of a "poor wild goose." I made no doubt but this was he whose spirit seemed so heavily laden.
Upon this the cauzee danced with redoubled vigour, and more ridiculous gestures, in hopes of evading discovery.
Philadelphia was threatened, Newport was in the hands of the enemy, and for ninety miles Washington had retreated, evading ruin again and again only by the width of a river. Congress voted not to leave Philadelphia, a fact which their General declined to publish, and then fled. No one remained to face the grim realities of the time but Washington, and he met them unmoved.
And thenceforward they will educate and guide that ignorance, instead of evading or cringing before it. But I have no fear about the matter. It is a libel on American women to say that they will not go anywhere or do anything which is for the good of their children and their husbands.
He paused, then finished quietly: "I happened to be in Switzerland last spring when you were." There was no misunderstanding the intentional significance with which he spoke no evading the impression that some definitely evil menace lay behind the brief statement of commonplace fact.
She had accepted the suggested kinship in childish acquiescence, but doubt was aflame now, once and for all. The man knew that there was no further evading her. "Chris, do you know anything about me?" she asked, directly. "Yes, I think I know everything," he answered, after a second's hesitation. Norma looked at him steadily.
A performance which never fails to bring down the house is for the torero to await the rush of the bull, and when the bellowing monster comes at him with winking eyes and lowered head, to put his slippered foot between the horns, and vault lightly over his back. These chulos exhibit the most wonderful skill and address in evading the assault of the bull.
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