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There are riders whose methods demand that they throw every unbroken horse given them to handle, and who gentle an animal by beating it about the head with loaded quirts, ripping its flanks open with sharp spurs and tearing its mouth with torturing bits and ropes.
"Luckier than me!" retorted a man next to her "I had to pay a girl's losses to the tune of a hundred. It's all right though!" And he grinned suggestively. "Is she pretty?" "Ripping!" "I want to make up five hundred pounds this week," observed Mrs. Bludlip Courtenay, in the most serious and matter-of-fact way "I've won it all but a hundred and fifty." "Good for you!"
He gripped my hand in his powerful fist and whispered: "Rot! you are certain to do everything for us. My heart is set on winning this and staggering the school." I smiled again. "You're a ripping chap, and I'm sorry if I've ever cheeked you." Sudden cheering told us that the great Erasmus four had emerged from their cabins.
The future looks bright and cheerful enough just at present, and ripping open the end of the envelope without breaking the seal, he pulls out a folded paper and reads: COLONIAL OFFICE, DOWNING STREET, S. W. TO CAPTAIN GUY CHUTNEY: Your immediate presence is requested on urgent affairs. Chutney looks with some surprise at the famous signature attached with a bold hand.
I expect to see several of those crazy dances go all to pieces on our account. That Highland Fling! Mind you keep up a ripping time on that. It ought to be piped, not stringed." Nevertheless, in spite of a good deal of perturbation on the part of both dancers and orchestra, the entertainment went off well enough to be applauded heartily.
It would scare most of the people in the hotel to death, but there might be a survivor or two who would come and investigate and let us out." "What a ripping idea!" said the young man, impressed. "I'm glad you like it. Now tell him the main out-line, or he'll think we've gone mad."
Pretty soon there was dinner, a perfectly ripping dinner, with everything I like including tons of jelly, at sight of which I grinned at Mother and she grinned back if you can call her gorgeous smile a grin.
Stephen?" Stephen replied in figures. It was rare with him, and he must have caught it from Mr. Lincoln. "I am not for ripping out the dam suddenly, sir, that would drown the nation. I believe that the water can be drained off in some other way." Mr. Lincoln's direct answer to this was to give Stephen stinging slap between the shoulder-blades. "God bless the boy!" he cried. "He has thought it out.
The assault was unsupported by artillery; those making it had no bayonets, and the Spanish fire, ripping, crackling, and blazing in vivid sheets from block-house and rifle-pit, was doubling and trebling in fury; but there was no hesitation on the part of the Americans, no backward step. The Spaniards could not understand it.
In a passionate scene he confessed his love for that damsel of yours, Joey, and laid his dukedom at her feet. Would she marry him P. D. Q. and help him sail the yacht home? Would she? 'Oh, darling, this is so sudden! she cried, and almost swooned in his arms. From a cabaret to a dukedom. Some jump! Sail the yacht home to England through the mine fields and submarines? Perfectly ripping, by Jove!
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