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Upon it, as many fortunes are lost as are made.” “I have offered due prayers to Poseidon, and vowed a gold tripod on the ship’s arrival.” “So even your gods in Hellas have their price,” was the retort, with an ill-concealed sneer. “Do not trust them. Take ten talents from me and to-night sleep sweetly.” “Your price?” the words slipped forth involuntarily.
"My father's danger, and your own command," she replied faintly, but firmly. "And you hope for aid from me?" "If you can bestow it," she replied, still in the same tone of mild submission. "And how should I possess that power?" continued the Dwarf, with a bitter sneer; "Is mine the form of a redresser of wrongs?
Here I am nigh sixty years of age, with a beggarly pension of thirty-eight pound ten not enough to keep me in beer and baccy." "I should have thought thirty-eight pound ten a year would have been a nice help to you in your old age," I remarked. "Would you, though?" he answered with a sneer, pushing his weather-beaten face forward until it was within a foot of my own.
The popular humours of a great city are a never-failing source of amusement to the man whose sympathies are hospitable enough to embrace all his kind, and who, refined though he may be himself, will not sneer at the humble wit or grotesque peculiarities of the boozing mechanic, the squalid beggar, the vicious urchin, and all the motley group of the idle, the reckless, and the imitative that swarm in the alleys and broadways of a metropolis.
And the pale, swinish eyes twinkled as they stared across the dull sorrow of the old man. There was an ominous sound from Pierre: "Do you let a thing like that happen in this country?" he asked fiercely. The other turned to him with a sneer. "Let it happen? Who'll stop him? Say, partner, you ain't meanin' to say that you don't know who Hurley is?" "I don't need telling. I can see."
'Write down the advice of each senator on a separate strip of vellum; shake all the strips together in an urn; and then, let the first you take out by chance, be your guide to govern by in the present condition of the city! said Vetranio with a sneer.
'Well, wot do you think of it? he said as he served them with what they required. 'Think of what? asked Easton. 'Why, hour speshul hartist, replied Crass with a sneer. 'Do you think 'e's goin' to get through with it? 'Shouldn't like to say, replied Easton guardedly.
He could not resist saying, with a sneer, when she paused, as if to ask his sympathy,
"If you do a rashness, here, remember that I can still act without you," she reminded him. "You may choose to believe that that man is your brother, and so, out of that, and" she added with a cruel sneer at Hortensia "other considerations, you may elect to let him go. But remember that you still have me to reckon with.
Have you studied the claims of those who are in touch with the spirit world?" "No." The preacher's sneer broke forth. "I can't see but you scientists are quite as dogmatic, quite as bigoted as the theologians." Serviss laughed. "It does look a little that way. However, I'm not as uninformed as I seem.
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