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'How dare he speak of her like that! Mr. Paramor's voice broke in on his meditations. "Still cooling your heels? Why did you play the deuce with us in there?" "I hate a sham," said Gregory. "This marriage of my ward's is a sham. She had better live honestly with the man she really loves!" "So you said just now," returned Mr. Paramor. "Would you apply that to everyone?" "I would."
The same writer declared that it was known "that the young Defoe was but a stalking-horse and a tool, to bear the lash and the pillory in their stead, for his wages; that he was the author of the most scandalous part, but was only made sham proprietor of the whole, to screen the true proprietors from justice."
Again, let it be understood, that the majority of the little band who withstood the tempest shock at Ridgeway, were fresh from the fields of the South and used to the song of the bullet and the roar of artillery, as the great bulk of the army of the Irish Republic in America is to-day; while even the British regulars who were marching on Ridgeway were, with all their pretensions, but feather-bed soldiers who were totally out of practice of the real field, and had for many a day exhibited their pluck and discipline at general reviews or sham battles only.
As soon as he was fairly gone Verus desired his slaves to lift him on their shoulders; his handsome good-natured face looked down upon the crowd from high above them. He was immediately recognized, and many voices called out: "The crazy Roman! the praetor! the sham Eros!" "I am he, Macedonian citizens, yes, I am he," answered Verus in a clear voice. "And I will tell you a story."
Let me then say boldly that I am all for liberty. I want boys and girls, men and women, to see far more of each other and get to know each other much better than in the past. I believe in co-education, and in real co-education not the sham that is practised in some of our universities and colleges. I see the risks and I want to take them.
Sham lions love to talk about themselves, and to excite curiosity, but real ones resent questions about their doings as they would resent a direct insult. Mrs. Rushmore knew that, too. She was really sorry to lose him, however, and had counted on his staying at least a week longer.
I believe that university education will soon be free to every boy and girl in America, and this without going far from home. Esoteric education is always more or less of a sham. Our public-school system is purely exoteric, only we stop too soon. We also give our teachers too much work and too little pay.
Evidently early training had little to do with after results, for had not my wife been brought up among an order of nuns renowned for simplicity and sanctity; had not her own father declared her to be "as pure as a flower on the altar of the Madonna;" and yet the evil had been in her, and nothing had eradicated it; for even religion, with her, was a mere graceful sham, a kind of theatrical effect used to tone down her natural hypocrisy.
Xerxes is not convinced. Advice of Artabanus in respect to employing the Ionians. Xerxes's opinion of the Ionians. Artabanus is permitted to return. Sham sea fight. Xerxes's address. Crossing the bridge. Preliminary ceremonies. The order of march. Movement of the fleet. Time occupied in the passage. Scene of confusion.
To some, caste observances are irksome and utterly sham, while to others the very breath of life. It ought not to be expected that all curb their tastes to conform to the fastidious notions of a few, nor should this fashionable minority be unduly blamed for exclusive whims. There always have been and will be select circles.
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