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I'm not overjoyed, I can tell you, for my respected uncle will preach at me about my morals in a way poor Stadinger never thought of doing, and I'll have to stand it, too. At any rate Hartmut, I can take this opportunity to present you." "If you think it necessary, and the etiquette of the court permits." "Bah!
You're coming out at the little end of the horn." Potts made no reply. "At any rate there's one comfort," said John, "even about that." "What comfort?" "Why, you went in at the little end." They walked on in silence. "You must do something," said John at last. "What can I do?" "You won't let that fellow ride the high horse in this style, will you?" "How can I help it?"
Frank Phiscator of Michigan, after a few months' work, brought home $100,000 in gold, selling one-third of his claim interests for $1,333,000, or at the rate of $5,000,000 for the whole.
At any rate, we believed in the importance of these accessories, and were not long in arraying ourselves accordingly. I could not help noticing, however, as we sallied forth into the field, that fine feathers do not always make fine birds. And there was another thing I noticed about these old hands: they behaved in the laziest of manners.
He lives in state and bounty, like the Lord of Burleigh. He lives like that fine old English gentleman who had an old estate, and who kept up his old mansion at a bountiful old rate. He lives in a grand wholesale manner; he lives in round numbers; he lives like a hero. Everything is Homeric about him.
Betty, one of five and with views above her station, was at any rate felt at home to have dished herself by her perversity. Of course no one had looked at her since and no one would ever look at her again. It would be eminently desirable that Flora should learn the lesson of Betty's fate.
If he were only good to HER he mightn't be good enough; but the more we pig together round about him the more blandly patriarchal we make him feel. Eliza meanwhile, at any rate, is spoiling for a dose if ever a woman required one; and I seem already to feel in the air the gathering elements of the occasion that awaits me for administering it.
"Hal and Eph have been talking it all over with me." "The Melvilles are very anxious to find out how you performed the seemingly wonderful feat of leaving the submerged boat and then returning to it." "Are you going to tell them, sir." "Not, at any rate, until I've taken more time to think about it. Yet, you understand, Jack, I can't be too offish with them.
There can, at any rate, be a true philosophy, but there can be no true religion: I mean true in the real and proper understanding of the word, not merely in that flowery and allegorical sense which you have described, a sense in which every religion would be true only in different degrees.
It was not necessary before, that all should be understood; it may be now increasingly necessary in the purposes of God that it should be. At any rate the fact is so, that in former days people did not possess the data for knowing fully what creation meant, and certainly they do now possess it to a very much greater extent at least.
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