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This war's a packet of surprises. Both sides are struggling for the margin, the little fraction of advantage, and between evenly matched enemies it's just the extra atom of foreknowledge that tells. 'Then we've got to push off and get after him, I said cheerfully. 'But what are you going to do? asked Macgillivray.
Forbes drew the key aside and laid it evenly against the one Crawford had left in his keeping. "By George!" "What's th' matter?" "He's come back!" in a whisper. "You're a keen one! Ye-up; Crawford's valet Mason is visiting in town." There are many threads and many knots in a net; these can not be thrown together haphazard, lest the big fish slip through.
In 1900 the wage-earners created a value of $4,640,784,931 and received out of it wages amounting to $2,323,407,257, leaving in the hands of employers $2,317,377,674. The employers and employes divided labor's product so evenly that the difference does not amount to one-eighth of one per cent.
He sat down and picked up a magazine from the table upon which Marie-Anne's work-basket lay. He was cool as ice now. His blood flowed evenly and his pulse beat unhurriedly. Never had he felt himself more his own master, more like grappling with a situation. St. Pierre was coming to fight. He had no doubt of that. Perhaps not physically, at first.
At one time it feels more powerfully the attraction of one of them, at another time of the other; and it ought to be, though it never is, evenly and happily balanced between them. The final aim of both Hellenism and Hebraism, as of all great spiritual disciplines, is no doubt the same: man's perfection or salvation.
And this, though a life depended on it, was but a wrestling-match. It was but a struggle to see which should get the other in his power, and blows count but little in a death-grapple. They swayed and swung together, but so evenly braced and firm that minutes passed, while, from a little distance, they would have seemed but motionless.
There is still another variety which bears the name of parti-coloured. As the name implies, these dogs must be of more than one colour, and the colours should be evenly distributed on the body in patches; for example, a black dog with a white foot or leg or chest would not be a parti-colour.
The land, also, can be more evenly and deeply plowed before obstructions are placed upon it, and roots, pestiferous weeds, and stones removed with greatest economy. Moreover, the good initial enriching is capital, hoarded in the soil, to start with.
Never had her brave crew felt so unwilling to meet a foe; but, as Tom Snell, the boatswain's mate, observed: "What is sauce to the goose is sauce to the gander, d'ye see, mates; and the chances are that all ships afloat are likely to be pretty evenly tarred with the same brush." So it proved. The French suffered as severely as the English.
Now those sandwiches I made I will admit were not cut very evenly, but, dear me! they tasted good enough. Tom Canton ate six. I told her so, but she said they should have looked good, too." "Well, what's her hobby?" "I just told you. It's trifles. She says life is made of them, and trifles with the rough edges polished off make beautiful lives.
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