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Was it wonderful, then, that the whole affair seemed quite like pastime to those engaged in it; or that they made themselves jocosely eloquent upon the subject, whenever one of the grave minority ventured to lift his voice against the proceedings? When the two Boards broke up for recess, nothing could exceed the spirit and good fellowship with which they went down to supper.
The gentleman was so well known in Brighton as he had been a resident two years that it was not difficult to firmly establish the one fact that he had not left the city, since no one saw him in the station on the morning of the 17th, nor at any time since then. Mild excitement prevailed throughout the town. At first the newspapers took the matter somewhat jocosely. 'Where is Mr.
Having thus obtained the lion's share, due, as he thought, to his well known courage and military talents, as well as to the powerful family influence, which he wielded his brother, the Prince of Espinoy, hereditary seneschal of Hainault, having likewise rallied to the King's party Ghent jocosely intimated to Parma his intention of helping himself to the two best horses in the Prince's stables in exchange for those lost at Gemblours, in which disastrous action he had commanded the cavalry for the states.
Neither of them had a trunk, having been able to stow away all their wardrobe without difficulty in the drawers of the bureau with which their room in Mott Street was provided. "Why are you like an elephant, Fosdick?" asked Dick, jocosely, as they emerged into the street. "I don't know, I'm sure." "Because you haven't got any trunk except what you carry round with you."
"You were wishing you'd a sealskin jacket yesterday, when it wasn't half as cold as it is to-day," said Mr. Skratdj. "My dear William! Why, the children were shivering the whole day, and the wind was in the north." "Due east, Mrs. Skratdj." "I know by the smoke," said Mrs. Skratdj, softly, but decidedly. "I fancy I can tell an east wind when I feel it," said Mr. Skratdj, jocosely, to the company.
There is a story that as Cæsar was crossing the Alps, he passed by a small barbarian town which had very few inhabitants and was a miserable place, on which his companions jocosely observed, "They did not suppose there were any contests for honors in such a place as that, and struggles for the first rank and mutual jealousy of the chief persons:" on which Cæsar earnestly remarked, "I would rather be the first man here than the second at Rome."
"It wouldn't be proper for me to interfere with Aunt Rachel's plans." "You seem to speak as if your aunt proposed to run away," said Mr. Harding, jocosely. "You shouldn't speak of such things, nephew; I am shocked," said Rachel. "Then you won't go, ma'am?" asked the captain. "If I thought it was consistent with propriety," said Rachel, hesitating. "What do you think, Martha?"
Mohammed is but the successor of Moses. We recognize the One God who rules the heavens and the earth, we eat not swine-flesh. Thou canst Messiah it in a white turban as well as in a black," he ended jocosely. Sabbataï winced. "Renegade!" he muttered. "Ay, and an excellent exchange," quoth the physician. "The Sultan is a generous paymaster, may his shadow never grow less.
They all would have shouted had they seen the hand he laid down, but he had striven to carry it off jocosely, to say he had only been bluffing, and was very properly caught at his own game.
Instructed to keep an accurate record of all material used, the trackmen jocosely scattered more spikes than they drove, made fire-wood of the stock cross-ties, and were not above underpinning the section-houses with new dimension timbers. In countless other ways the waste was prodigious and often mysteriously unexplainable. The company supplies had a curious fashion of disappearing in transit.
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