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But Zenobia say, she's a diff'rent party! A few years younger than Martha, Zenobia is, in the early sixties, I should say, and she's just as active and up to date and foxy as Martha is logy and antique and dull. While Martha is sayin' grace Zenobia is gen'rally pourin' herself out a glass of port.
He seemed to have a larger command of capital than ever, and he added several very important departments to his financial undertaking. The rivalry between Hughie and Foxy had become acute, but besides this, there was in Hughie's heart a pent-up fierceness and longing for revenge that he could with difficulty control.
Now what would he be doing with a letter out on a barren island?" "Oh Jim is a foxy one. I wouldn't trust him as far as the end of my nose. But here come the others. Will you go over to the Casino this evening." "Yes, we had planned to go. That is why I am dressed up.
"In order to get a few worldly Chattels right at the jump, he sacrifices his Diploma. I shall be more Foxy. I shall go right on through the High School and then I shall attend College and get a Degree. When I have taken my Degree then I will be the human It. My scholarly Attainments and polished Manner will get me past the Door and into the Inner Circle of the Hot Potatoes.
"By thunder, I believe you're right, skipper!" said Ellinwood solemnly. "The dirty dog! Cookee, run that tub up to the truck again. We'll have to call the men in on this." "Oh, he was foxy, that one!" said Code bitterly. "Going out in the fog that way so all hands would think he was lost! I never remembered until this minute that the motor-dory could be run.
"I think," said Fletcher senior, rising to his feet when this interruption had ceased, and looking round with a foxy smile on his face, "that, with all due respect to the gentlemen who have been elected as prefects, it is a great pity that the doctor should not have consented to confirm the choice of the school, and reappoint Thurston.
"I'll bet ye it wasn't that old one; he's a foxy old customer, he is, and I'll bet me red shirt ye'll never set your eyes on him again. Devil take me if I care if ye don't after the wetting and bloody nose he's given me," said Tim. "You hold Nanny, while I go look for Billy, Tim." "All right and joy and good luck go with ye, but mark me words ye never will find him when you're looking for him.
Shere stared at her in amazement. The amazement changed to suspicion. His whole face seemed to narrow and sharpen out of his own likeness into something foxy and mean. "I will not," he said, and slowly replaced the letter. "There was a man in the road," he continued slowly, "who whistled as I passed a signal, no doubt. You are Carlist. This is a trap." "A trap not laid for you," said Christina.
When Troy was taken, Hannibal, who was a very foxy fellow and a great rascal into the bargain, piled all the gold and silver and bronze statues in one pile and set 'em afire, melting these different metals into one: then the metal workers took their pick and made bowls and dessert dishes and statuettes as well. That's how Corinthian was born; neither one nor the other, but an amalgam of all.
Foxy faithfully worked some deep Devon lanes behind a lonely cross-roads inn; and it was curious that Prout and King, members of Common-room seldom friendly, walked together in the same direction that is to say, northeast. Now, the Pleasant Isle of Aves lay due southwest. "They're deep day-vilish deep," said Stalky. "Why are they drawin' those covers?" "Me," said Beetle sweetly.
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