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He began to regret his trifling with him and he resolved to end the fight as soon as possible with a knock-out blow. The quick eye of the Indian perceived that Cameron's breath was coming quicker, and, still keeping carefully out of his enemy's reach, he danced about more swiftly than ever. Cameron realized that he must bring the matter quickly to an end.
The scandal would be a knock-out blow, his father would discharge him on the spot and that would be the last they would see of the aristocratic English secretary. Jefferson put the letter in his pocket and left the house rejoicing. While the foregoing incidents were happening John Burkett Ryder was secluded in his library.
If our Associated Land Corporation hadn't gone under " "Then it has gone under?" I interrupted, with a catch of the breath, for I knew just how much had been staked on that venture. Dinky-Dunk nodded his head. "And carried me with it," he grimly announced. "But even that wouldn't have meant a knock-out, if the government had only kept its promise and taken over my Vancouver Island water-front."
It was said that he had never been knocked out in all his boxing-career, that the kick of a horse on his chin would not knock him out, that his head was solid bone, and that the shortness of his jaw and thickness of his neck absolutely prevented sufficient leverage between the point of the jaw and the spinal cord for the administration of the shock to the medulla oblongata that causes the necessary ten-seconds' unconsciousness of the "knock-out".
"Take telegram direct message," he ordered, and commenced to dictate: Captain Matthew Peasley, Your resignation accepted. You are too almighty good for a windjammer, Matthew. You need more room for the development of your talent. Give Murphy the ship, with my compliments, and tell him I've enjoyed the fight because it went to a knock-out. Report to me at this office as soon as possible.
"Oh, I say, Una," he cried, flushing a dark red. "It's not fair to " "I'm fearfully interested," she persisted calmly. "You know it's actually gotten me into the habit of the sporting page. 'Walloping' Houligan and 'Scotty' Smith, the Harlem knock-out artist, are no longer empty names for me. They're real people with jabs and things." "It's not kind of you "
At least, Rossland measured his action as one of sudden, intensive reflection as he watched him, smiling complacently at the effect of his knock-out proposition upon the other. He had not minced matters.
Asquith he never entertained this violent feeling, but gradually lost patience with him, and only decided that he must go when procrastination appeared to jeopardize "a knock-out blow." Anyone who questioned the cost of the war was a timid soul. What did it matter what the war cost so long as victory was won?
"The fight was exciting especially to me in my condition. I was standing most of the time, even leaning on the ring. Once, while in this position, one of the men, who was bleeding, was knocked down. He struck the mallet. It became covered with blood. No one seemed to notice that, except myself every one was too excited. A moment more and the fight was over, through a knock-out.
'Here, I says to the chap who was nearly out of the door, 'you've paid too much. 'Oh, he says, very cool, 'have we? 'Yes, I says, and picks up the bill to show him. Well, that was a knock-out." "What do you mean?" asked his interlocutor. "Well, I'd have sworn on seven Bibles that I'd put 4s. on that bill. But now I saw I'd put 14s., as plain as paint."
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