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Taking advantage of the situation of the ground, about five miles from Trim, he threw up some field works, placed sixty men in Portlester mill, and patiently awaited the advance of the enemy. Their assault was overconfident, their rout complete. Lord Moore, and a large portion of the assailants were slain, and Monk fled back to Dublin.
The extent to which some overconfident persons fail in their efforts to treat and cure themselves explains the necessity for such a warning. +Effect of Mercurial Treatment on the Blood Test.+ The effect of mercury on the Wassermann blood test for syphilis should also be generally understood.
We wanted to accomplish great things and solve age-old problems. And we became overconfident of our abilities. We tried to be a policeman abroad and the indulgent parent here at home. We thought we could transform the country through massive national programs, but often the programs did not work. Too often they only made things worse.
She doesn't realize it. But I know." There he stood as if another bullet had struck him, this time straight through the heart. Perhaps one had and I repented a little of my overconfident declaration. Still, I would not go back on it. I believed it. "Russ, for God's sake! What a terrible thing to say!" he ejaculated hoarsely. "No. It's not terrible to say it only the fact is terrible," I went on.
"The reason why those of Boston and Connecticut were joined," afterward explained the royal commander, "was because those two colonies should hold themselves the more engaged with us if the Dutch had been overconfident of their strength." At eight o'clock the next morning, which was Saturday, the commissioners on both sides met at Stuyvesant's "bouwery" and arranged the terms of capitulation.
When the seventy-fifth anniversary of Belgian Independence gave him at last the opportunity of breaking the silence imposed upon him by the Congo campaign, he uttered a supreme warning to the nation: "Let us not be overconfident in our present prosperity; let us stand closer and closer together around our flag.
Being six to one, and supposedly invincible, the squadron had been overconfident and had attacked carelessly, with only its crippling slicing beams instead of its more deadly weapons of total destruction; and so fierce and hard had been Stevens' counter-attack that five of its numbers had been destroyed before they realized what powerful armament was mounted by that apparently crude, helpless, and innocuous wedge.
Now that the Confederates held an equal number, they were going to retaliate upon the overconfident North. Olympia placed five hundred dollars at Nick's disposal in the hands of the commandant to supply the lad with better food than the commissary furnished, and, promising him strenuous aid so soon as she got back to Washington, she resumed the quest for the lost.
Now that it was all done, he feared that he had been overconfident, for could it really be possible that the greatest steel contract in years would come to him? He grew dizzy at the picture of what it meant to him and to the girl. He calmed himself finally and looked straight at the matter, sitting up in bed, his knees drawn up under his chin.
"Don't be too sure, my boy," warned his father. "There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip or rather the aeroplane, you know." "That's so, father," replied the lad, somewhat abashed, "it doesn't do to be overconfident. There's only one thing I don't like about the course." "What is that?" "Why, the 'take off' at the Harrowbrook Club links."
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