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Many sayings of his were current, among them a dry answer to a senator from Texas who, having dwelt in high- flown discourse on the superlative characteristics of the State he represented, wound up all by saying, ``All that Texas needs to make it a paradise is water and good society, to which Wade instantly replied, ``That 's all they need in hell. The nimbleness and shrewdness of some public men he failed to appreciate.
Whatever trouble Syl might have with his head, he was the perfection of nimbleness with his feet, and Maggie was almost cornered. She clutched Donald's arm. "Oh, Don," she cried, "get me out o' this. That crazy little mosquito is after me again!" Glad of an excuse for swift motion, Donald caught her hands and swept her forward with a force that made her gasp.
None of the hunters had fired, as the nimbleness with which the brutes moved about rendered it difficult to take aim at any one of them; and all knew that powder and lead were too precious to be wasted on a "flying shot."
There was no want of worldly wisdom in it; certainly it was more adapted to James's ideas of state-craft than the simpler plan of Sir Henry Nevill, that the King should throw himself frankly on the loyalty and good-will of Parliament. And thus he came to be on easy terms with James, who was quite capable of understanding Bacon's resource and nimbleness of wit.
She had all the agile nimbleness of a squirrel, and made her way onward, maintaining her equilibrium only by the swaying poise of her body. When she was quite aloft at the end of a frail branch, which shook dangerously beneath her weight, she cried; 'Now you see whether I daren't climb. 'Come down at once, implored Serge, full of alarm for her. 'I beg of you to come down.
Then, to everybody's amazement, he vaulted over the fence and approached the bull. Instantly that animal saw him, down went his head, of course, and up went his tail, as he charged upon the sauntering figure. But Jack dodged the rush with the nimbleness of a practised picador; and the bull crashed against the fence.
After the heavy days of anxiety he felt a nimbleness of heart and spirit which set him in tune with the glory of that night. Suspicions, vague and elusive, had for so long clustered about José Medina, and then had come the two categorical statements, dates and hours, chapter and verse! He was still not sure, he declared to himself in warning.
Those lighter flights of fancy, those delicate innuendoes and allusions of implied experience or culture all the give-and-take of happily contending minds all, indeed, that makes true conversation is a science utterly unknown to him. A certain superficial nimbleness of mind he does sometimes possess, but for all that he is a dull creature, made dull by the limitations of his life.
The dogs lifted their heads to look, and one soft-stepping old hound got up with the nimbleness of expectation, and, with a prescient gratitude astir in his tail, went and sniffed at it. His aspect drooped suddenly, and he looked around in reproach at Stephen Quimbey, as if suspecting a practical joke. But there was no merriment in the young mountaineer's face.
I am at a loss to 'Do not say that, my dear madam, interrupted Mr Dorrit. Mrs General's voice, as it died away, pronounced the words, 'at a loss to imagine. After which Mr Dorrit was seized with a doze for about a minute, out of which he sprang with spasmodic nimbleness.
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