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"Well, I'll die if I stay in this messed-up hole any longer!" said Tishy. "I don't care how wet I get "
And then he was to be taken up to the Town Hall and set down to a banquet, with long speeches by all the preachers in the town, right in the middle of the eating; one of those messed-up affairs where you sat round amongst the dirty dishes and had speeches and singing all mixed up with your meat and potatoes. Yes, it was true, every word of it!
"I like to back my judgment," answered Val. Jolly smiled; his smile was like his father's. "I haven't got any. I always lose money if I bet." "You have to buy experience, of course." "Yes, but it's all messed-up with doing people in the eye." "Of course, or they'll do you that's the excitement." Jolly looked a little scornful. "What do you do with yourself? Row?" "No ride, and drive about.
"'Tain't no sort of use whitewashin' the old hulk," he asserted; "an' I guess my Sunday clo's, as is good enough for the Lord's meetin'-house up to the Pint, is got to be good enough for these messed-up city streets; an' ye can't make no bricky-bracky outer me."
"Damn you, Bent Wade! You always say what kills me!... Of course I would!" "Well, lie quiet now, an' let me look at this poor, messed-up foot." Wade's deft fingers did not work with the usual precision and speed natural to them. But at last Moore's injured member lay bare, discolored and misshapen. The first glance made the hunter quicker in his movements, closer in his scrutiny.
Thus the attack had failed, and the force found itself on a desperate defensive. The "A" Yorks, who had suffered severely, retired from action immediately after the first counter-attack of the Bolo had been repulsed. Then the whole defense of this messed-up attacking force fell upon the American platoon and a dozen Yorks with a doughty British officer.
Perhaps the cups need more “snapping.” In the end you hold a handful of messed-up crumpled erstwhile cup-shaped paper containers, the first one pried off looking more like a puppy-chewed mat by the time it is loose and a chocolate planted on its middle. By then, needless to remark, the bloom is off the chocolate. It has the look of being clutched in a warm hand during an entire circus parade.
"I like to back my judgment," answered Val. Jolly smiled; his smile was like his father's. "I haven't got any. I always lose money if I bet." "You have to buy experience, of course." "Yes, but it's all messed-up with doing people in the eye." "Of course, or they'll do you that's the excitement." Jolly looked a little scornful. "What do you do with yourself? Row?" "No ride, and drive about.
He had Wood in to supper with him in his car, Boston did, the darky cooking it; and Wood said except it begun with their having pickled green plums, and some sort of messed-up stuff that tasted like spoilt salt fish and made him feel sickish it was the best supper he ever eat.
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