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"You came on board without an invitation, and now you may stay here until the next boat is ready to run in, which will be in the course of an hour or two." "By which time half the American fleet may have been destroyed for lack of warning," groaned Ridge.
Helen broke off this chatter with an amused laugh. "Then mebbe I'd go to school a while," Tess kept on, "an' learn myself a lot out o' books, an' after that I'd take singin' lessons an' I'd sing to everybody what asked me Then mebbe " She dropped back for lack of words. "I wonder if that'd take the hull of the five thousand." Waldstricker stood up.
It was that they felt it necessary to consult Judge Gregorowski as to the amount of money which ought to be taken as a donation to charities. The matter of assessing the value of a death-sentence in cash might perhaps be deemed a perplexing and a difficult one from lack of precedent, yet nobody supposed the Executive Council to be unequal to the task.
Each subtly brought forward his meritorious services to the Master, his sacrifices, his renunciations and sufferings, his obedience to the teaching. Jesus quickly stepped nearer to them, and said: "Why do you indulge in such foolish talk? While you are boasting of your virtues, you prove that you lack the greatest. Are you the righteous that you dare to talk so loudly?"
While the advertisements, circulars, catalogues, and other literature were beautiful; while the English in them was elegant, and the form of expression refined, somehow or other, they seemed to lack the necessary punch or kick which Jessup knew they ought to have. The two big things about the new product were, first, economy of fuel; second, ease of operation and small demand for supervision.
In all ranks and conditions among men, from the so-called savage upwards, there have been found more or less profound thinkers, and honest logical reasoners, who, but for the lack of training, might have become pillars in the world of intellect. Both Sinclair and Petawanaquat were naturally quiet and modest men, but they were not credulous.
"You're going to stop him?" "I'm going to make him want to stop it himself," Tom rejoined, with a slight grin. Alf came back, looking much pleased. "Let me feel your pulse," requested Reade. "Now, let me see your tongue." This much accomplished, Tom next turned down the under lid of one of young Drew's eyes and gazed at the lack of red there displayed.
They have no evenness of conduct, because, as the greater part of their religion is in these natural sensibilities, whenever it happens that their sensibilities are dry, either from want of work on their part, or from a lack of correspondence on the part of God, they fall into discouragement, or else they redouble their efforts, in the hope of recovering of themselves what they have lost.
The lack of attention on the part of a certain class of vocal teachers to the quality of the tones produced is one of the special defects in the instruction of the day.
Not like himself, not like the strong and too, too handsome man who has wrung my heart in his hand of steel, wrung it and thrown it away." Sobs shook her and she stopped from lack of power to utter either her terror or her grief.
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