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The Spider felt tempted to resort to bribery, but there was something so officious and aggressively professional in the manner of this "straw-boss" as The Spider mentally labeled him that The Spider hesitated to flatter his egotism by admitting that he held the whip-hand. "Then mebby you can find out how he's getting along?" queried The Spider, in his high-pitched voice.
To the majority of men I fancy that literature is very much the same that history is; and history is presented as a museum of antiquities and curiosities, classified, arranged, and labeled. One may walk through it as he does through the Hotel de Cluny; he feels that he ought to be interested in it, but it is very tiresome.
You'll probably learn a few things on that trip." "Are you a jerkline skinner?" "I dunno. Maybe I am. I never tried. But if that's what you wanta hit me, too. Say, what's your name?" "Hiram Hooker." "That's a peach, all right. They sure labeled you for the part. Mine ain't much better though. They call me Twitter-or-Tweet." "What!" "Proves I'm a bird, don't it? My name is Orr Tweet.
It will be sold in livery stables and up back lanes, and be carried in coal-oil cans, and labeled "gopher-poison." Even so, that will not make it any more deadly in its effects; the effect of liquor-drinking is much the same whether it is drunk in "the gilded saloon," where everything is exceedingly legal and regular, or up the back lane, absolutely without authority. Both are bad!
Here, under black headlines, which screamed the success of the convention of the Ladies of Honor, was a horrible blotted outrage resembling a stout negress peering through a screen door and labeled, "Mrs. Serena Sarah Dott, of Scarford, whose brilliant paper scored the success of the meeting."
Another thing, a man wouldn't have marked this note 'Important! It's important, but it gains no advantage from being labeled. A woman, who acts from feeling, marks it 'important' because she feels its importance. Now a man might feel its importance, but he acts from reason rather than feeling, and in that respect is the antithesis of a woman.
And now here is Jean's parlor looking just as that nursery used to look. The presents are not labeled the hands are forever idle that would have labeled them today. Jean's mother always worked herself down with her Christmas preparations. Jean did the same yesterday and the preceding days, and the fatigue has cost her her life. The fatigue caused the convulsion that attacked her this morning.
One Sunday evening in a tavern appositely labeled the "Inn of Good Morals," he began to throw bottles at some stevedores who had accepted a cut in wages; and when the police came in to restore order, they caught him, red-handed, chasing his enemies over the tops of the tables with his knife drawn.
Each jar was conspicuously labeled with the name its illustrious dust had borne in life; and if one escaped with comparative cheerfulness from the thought that Seneca had died, there were in the very next pot the cinders of Napoleon to bully him back to a sense of his mortality.
"At length a brilliant thought flashed across the mind of the doctor. 'The shoo-fly the shoo-fly, said he; 'why didn't we think of that? and out he went for his carpetbag, pulled out some suspicious looking bottles labeled with the mystic words, and made for the bed, entirely covered with a ferocious cloud of the aforesaid 'skeeters' and flies stabbing him for dear life.
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