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The engineer looked gravely at Ike. "Why, boy," he admonished him, "the world has got a hundred years the start of you!" "I kin ketch up," Ike declared sturdily. "There's something in grit, I reckon," said the engineer. Then his wonderful locomotive glided away, leaving Ike staring after it in silent ecstasy, and his companions dying with laughter.
"You know why, too, if you stop to think. I'm the same old Jack Fyfe, Stella. I don't think much where you are concerned; I just feel. And that doesn't lend itself readily to impersonal chatter." "How do you feel?" she asked, meeting his gaze squarely. "If you don't hate me, you must at least rather despise me." "Neither," he said slowly. "I admire your grit, lady.
"McChesney," said the Colonel, "we must thank our stars that we brought the boy along. He has grit, and as good a head as any of us. I reckon if it hadn't been for him some of them would have turned back long ago." I saw Tom grinning at the Colonel as gratefully as though he himself had been praised. The blaze started, and soon we had a bonfire.
An' if ther's fi' cents' worth o' grit in you, Mister Sandy Joyce, an' an atom o' savvee in your fool brain, Toby, you'll take a hand in the game." Minky looked on in silent approval. Anything directed against James was bound to meet with his approval just now. But Sandy cleared his throat, and lounged with his back against the counter.
Why should I give to what they're fighting for on the other side of the ocean? Don't ask me to give up my boy to what they're fighting for in a country I've never seen my little boy I raised my all I've got my life! No! No!" "It's the women like you, mother with guts with grit that send their sons to war." "I 'ain't got grit!"
There is no other handicap that you should not be able to overcome. To overcome a handicap, all that it is necessary to do is to use more determination and grit and will. The man with grit and will, may be poor today and wealthy in a few years; will power is a better asset than money; Will will carry you over chasms of failure, if you but give it the chance.
A brakeman came to the door and lifted up his lantern, glancing within, I was crouching, wet and forlorn, in a corner of the car, waiting for the freight to be under way. "Come on out with you! Hit the grit!" commanded the "shack" grimly. I rose. I came to the door.
Till it came to this I didn't think of myself but what I had more strength. It has knocked me about till I feel all over like drinking." "Don't do that, Larry." "I won't answer for myself what I'll do. A man sets his heart on a thing, just on one thing, and has grit enough in him to be sure of himself that if he can get that nothing shall knock him over.
His voice did not waver, for he was a manly and courageous boy. "The boy's got grit!" said one of the men to the other. "Yes, but it won't save him. Boy, are you going to write what I told you?" "No." "Are you not afraid that we will kill you?" "You have power to do it." "Don't you want to live?" "Yes. Life is sweet to a boy of sixteen." "Then why don't you write?"
"That's the one thing I respect him for. He stuck to it and won through to where he stands now." "It shows he's got some grit, anyway," agreed Peter. "And do you think" smiling "that that's the type of man who's going to give in over winning the woman he wants? . . . Should I, if things were different if I were free?" Kitty laughed reluctantly. "You? No. But you're not Maryon Rooke.
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