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"Certainly," she agreed, and her face brightened in such evident relief that he turned to her suddenly and said almost regretfully, as a generous adversary might speak to one whom he hopelessly outclasses: "Madam, I hear you are fond of gambling. You should study the game of poker, which teaches us to hide our feelings.
Here is a poetic version of the future life which completely outclasses the 'Divina Commedia. It is compounded out of the experiences of forty-three thousand moderate drinkers who became total abstainers, seventy disbanded croquet associations, and 1,125 obsolete euchre clubs.
She smoothed the paper out-it had been crumpled and was a little soiled-and read it swiftly. It ran: DEAR LADY COUSIN As the poet says, "Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward," and in Egypt the sparks set the stacks on fire oftener than anywhere else, I guess. She outclasses Mexico as a "precious example" in this respect.
"Porter tells me Lucretia is good business," said Danby, in a tentative tone. "Langdon thinks it's all over bar the shouting; he says Lauzanne outclasses his field," retorted Lewis. "Langdon's a betting man; Porter's an owner, and a good judge," objected Danby; "and he's got a good boy up, too, McKay," he added, slowly focusing his field glasses on the jockey board opposite the Stand.
For show, and style, and grandeur, and thunder and lightning and fireworks it outclasses all the previous inventions of man, and raises the limit on the Pope. He can never put his avid hand on that word of words it is pre-empted. And copyrighted, of course.
We hate the man and all his breed simply because he outclasses us at our own game." "You mean he outplunders us," contradicted Kirk. "It comes to much the same thing, young son, though High Finance is a prettier name for the pastime. He gathers in millions to our thousands not only because he is a naughty, wicked man, but because of his greater caliber and range.
"Not so very frisky, but at that he looks better than I thought he would," was Goldmark's mental comment. "They must have shot all the coke in the world into that old skate. As soon as he begins to run the blood will pump into that sore leg and he'll quit. Black Bill looks like the money to me. He outclasses these other horses." Goldmark passed the eraser over his slate. Black Bill, 2 to 5.
His Holiness is a man of great good sense, and it will naturally occur to him that while reasonable church discipline is desirable it may be enforced without flagrantly insulting the millions of very worthy people who decline to accept his dogma. This year's crop of Christmas accidents appears to be up to the average. As an angel-maker Christmas outclasses St.
Now I must say that no exploit recorded of any human being or traditional of any legendary hero, outclasses as a feat of strength, coolness, courage and perfect coordination of all the mental and physical faculties, this act of Commodus' in killing two successive lions with a palm-wood club. A charging lion is an object so terrifying as to chill the blood of a distant onlooker.
'I must see the committee, and tell them his antecedents this horse rather outclasses most hunters. "'He doesn't outclass mine, over the cup course, for five thousand! says Ferguson, gettin' red. "'Done! says Mr. Van, quiet-like. 'If the committee says I'm eligible we'll settle it in the cup race. If not, we can run a match. "'Entirely satisfactory, says Ferguson, 'n' starts to go.
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