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I believe you are nothing less than a pirate masquerading as a Russian ship of war; and I shall treat you accordingly if you do not sheer off." This defiance was more than enough for the proud and choleric Russian, accustomed to have his every order servilely obeyed.

I never ceased to be surprised by the scorn, contempt, disgust and frequently sheer ferocity manifested in the male and particularly in the female faces. All the ladies wore, of course, black; they were wholly unbeautiful of face or form, some of them actually repellant; not one should I, even under more favourable circumstances, have enjoyed meeting.

Of course things didn't shape out as I'd planned Moran's alibi for instance, or that hobo, Drinkwater. "I know to you it will only appear sheer nonsense on my part ever to start in attempting to justify my my abolishment of him. But this what I am going to tell you is the absolute truth of what happened.

Would you mind telling me what I am to read?" "The Medcroft thing. Right there." She read the article, her husband watching her face the while. Surprise, incredulity, dismay, succeeded each other in rapid changes. She was reading in sheer amazement of the doings of Roxbury Medcroft in connection with the County Council's sub-committee in London!

Moxley's rage was so violent that Bug prudently retreated to the bushes. The ruffian kept up his abuse and called Bug all manner of vile names until he was compelled to stop for sheer want of breath. Bug came down to Hocker and Jeffries and stood before them. "Look here," he said hoarsely, "what that rascal says ain't true at least the most of it ain't.

Craig couldn't believe she was in earnest at first, 'n' then she wept again with sheer joy. 'N' what do you think 't Mrs. Sperrit did? Took Augustus straight across to Mr. Shores 'n' bought a dog-collar 'n' a chain for him 'n' buckled it on right then and there.

I have had ten days of sheer hell. For one brief minute I thought you loved me. You almost said you did. But then you never came to me and I have feared that you did not care. But to-night I must know. I must know now." He raised himself up to a sitting posture. "Tell me, Kathleen; I must know." "Oh, Jack," she panted. "You are not yourself now. You are weak and just imagine things."

As the cab whirled through the now nearly deserted downtown streets, he reached over in sheer admiration and caressed her hand. She did not withdraw it, but her averted eyes and quick breath told that a thousand thoughts were hurrying through her mind, divided between the man in the cab beside her and the man in the cab following perhaps half a block behind.

Two or three years afterward he had made the Examiner one of the great powers of the political world, and was living in a palace at Turin, minister to Sardinia. He had achieved this success in life by the sheer force of his character; by the vigor and recklessness of his pen, and the intensity of his invective.

"He's the dearest old liar since Münchhausen." "Aren't they true stories?" asked Hildegarde. "Bless you, no! And he knows we know it, too. But he tells them so well that I've never had the courage to sheer him off." "It's amusing," said Laura; "but I do not think that it's always fair to him." "Why, Laura, you're as good a listener as any I know. Read him a tract, if you wish."