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He might have been the devil you say he was; but he was a white man, and it is my place to see that he is buried as Christians bury the dead. He used me roughly, but " She placed her hand on my knee, and her very touch subdued my excitement. "Simi, the man is dead, and not even a strand of his hair is left on earth. No one can ever question thee, or Tematau, or me, about him.
'Poor fellow! said the gentleman, 'he has hurt himself. 'I did that, sir, said a great lubberly fellow, stepping forward; 'and preciously I cut my knuckle agin' his mouth. I stopped him, sir. 'Come, get up, said the man, roughly. 'It wasn't me indeed, sir. Indeed, indeed, it was two other boys, said Oliver, clasping his hands passionately, and looking round. 'They are here somewhere.
Fly-fishing is the most modern of them, but it is the most highly esteemed, principally because it is the method par excellence of taking members of the most valuable sporting family of fish, the Salmonidae. It may roughly be considered under three heads, the use of the "wet" or sunk fly, of the "dry" or floating fly, and of the natural insect.
He pointed to the field. A diamond had been roughly outlined on it with bags of sand, and a ball-game was in progress, boys playing, but a long line of men watching from the side lines. "I don't know, but it doesn't hurt anything." "Ruins the turf, that's all." He stopped the car and got out. "Look at this sign.
He had invented a monopoly which shared its profits with the people, and which the people trusted. He was a Luther Burbank in money and people instead of chestnuts. He raised the standard of impossibility in people, and invented a new way for human nature to work. The modern imagination takes, speaking roughly, three characteristic forms: 1.
And the vehicular traffic of the street is essentially the high road traffic very roughly adapted to the new needs. The cab is a simple development of the carriage, the omnibus of the coach, and the supplementary traffic of the underground and electric railways is a by no means brilliantly imagined adaptation of the long-route railway.
Within, the barracks for the prisoners were on the west or northwest side, leaving the larger space open in front for exercise. The buildings were of pine boards, roughly but well constructed, so that they were dry and tight. Rows of bunks ran along the sides, filled with beds of straw.
Jobling, heavy of brow, returned to the parlor and looked hard at his wife. "She's late," said Mrs. Jobling, glancing at the clock. "I do hope she's all right, but I should feel anxious about her if she was my gal. It's a dangerous life." "Dangerous life!" said Mr. Jobling, roughly. "What's a dangerous life?" "Why, hers," replied his wife, with a nervous smile. "Joe Brown told me.
With a word to the sergeant to order an immediate retreat, Hal crossed the room and shook His Lordship roughly. "Get up!" he shouted. His Lordship opened one eye sleepily. "What's that?" he demanded. "Get up!" repeated Hal. "Not on your life," said His Lordship slowly, and closed his eyes again. "Quick!" shouted Hal. "We must retreat! A whole German regiment is about to attack us."
'My Gawd, he said, 'it's Liza! Then roughly pushing the people aside, he made his way through the crowd into the centre, and thrusting himself between the two women, tore them apart. He turned furiously on his wife. 'By Gawd, I'll give yer somethin' for this! And for a moment they all three stood silently looking at one another.
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