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Your father's estate is not able to pay them, and our trust company must either take them up or fail. If it fails, everyone will think that values in Lattimore are unstable and fictitious, and so many people will try to sell out that we shall have a smashing of values, and possibly a panic. Prices will drop, so that none of our mortgages will be good for their face.
I know what he wants. He doesn't care a pinch of snuff about you. He thinks he can hit me a blow by getting you away from me." "Nothing could be further from the truth," exclaimed Nan hopelessly. Duke struck the table a smashing blow with his fist. "I'll show Mr. de Spain and his friends where they get off." "Uncle Duke, if you won't listen to reason, you must listen to sense.
Occasionally one would hear the metallic sounding clang, of some falling rock, smashing into the glen below, toppled from its eminence by some subterranean tremour or earthquake shock, and the vibrations of the seismatic waves would precipitate the rocks into different groups and shapes than they formerly possessed.
But he didn't make a move for his weapon. It would be sure death if he did, for the others were armed. Brown men fell before the smashing of their fists. But the end of the fight was a foregone conclusion. Jeter had a bruised jaw.
At least he had to scrape more snow over the cabin mouth. And in the meantime he might be lucky enough to find the dearest delight in his life, a good, smashing, well-matched fight to cool the growing anger in his great veins. Ephraim was an old bear, used to every hunting wile, and his disposition hadn't improved with years.
She was trying to break from the men who held her to stab Jim. They were all fighting and smashing the furniture She sprang from the bed with a cry of horror. The noise was real! It was not a dream. The beast inside was stumbling in the dark. His passions fired by liquor, he was fumbling to find his way into her room. She rushed to the door and put her shoulder against the bar, panting in terror.
But while the collapse of the previous great civilisation, that of Rome, had been a matter of centuries, had been a thing of phase and phase, like the ageing and dying of a man, this, like his killing by railway or motor car, was one swift, conclusive smashing and an end.
A child in arms should be able to see that this idiotic notion of relaxing the military pressure on us by smashing this or that particular Power is like trying to alter the pressure of the ocean by dipping up a bucket of water from the North Sea and pouring it into the Bay of Biscay. I purposely omit more easterly supposings as to what victorious Russia might do.
The two lads trotted off to inspect the damaged plane, which they found under a pile of canvas, just where it had been brought the day a bad side-slip had resulted in smashing it up. "The engine is in her, sure enough," said Louis, "and it is by no means a bad type of engine either. It might have more power, but it is reliable enough.
Rear as well as front had to be protected, and an hour was consumed in approaching the knoll. Then, with the knoll almost within grasp, up from the tall grass leaped the twenty or more Indians supposed to be dead. From fifty yards they poured in a smashing volley. Down crumpled Private Smith, in a heap.
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