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"You related to Adam J. Patch?" he inquired of Anthony, emitting two slender strings of smoke from nostrils overwide. Anthony admitted it with the ghost of a smile. "He's a fine man," pronounced Bloeckman profoundly. "He's a fine example of an American." "Yes," agreed Anthony, "he certainly is." I detest these underdone men, he thought coldly. Boiled looking!

At times the intellectual sweep threatened to be overdaring and overwide; so that, in the interests of symmetry and balance of construction, he had been forced to clip the wings of thought, lest they should bear him to regions too remotely high and rare.

For the road went straight through a rough waste, no pasture, save for mountain sheep or goats, with a few bushes scattered about it; and beyond this the land rose into a long ridge; and on the ridge was a wood thick with trees, and no break in them. There was still a beaten way between the tree-boles, though not overwide, albeit, a highway, since it pierced the wood.

'Twas, of course, no fit sight for females, and the constable had not insisted thereon: but she knew the black silk shade again, and young Master Lambert had caught sight of the murdered man's legs and feet, and had thereupon recognized the breeches and the quaint boots with their overwide tops filled with frills of lace.

"But that's not enough; they might come to the cave.... The way in is not overwide; would they see it from below? They don't know where it is or they would have done as I did; they would have come to it for shelter.... No, they don't know of it. Can I close up the entrance, somehow, so that they won't find it?

"Else may you be overwide." "Nay, this wind will scarce turn a well-drawn shaft," said a third. "Shoot dead upon him and you will be clap in the clout." "Steady, Ned, for the good name of the Dales," cried a Yorkshireman. "Loose easy and pluck not, or I am five crowns the poorer man." "A week's pay on Bartholomew!" shouted another. "Now, old fat-pate, fail me not!" "Enough, enough!