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No, sir; very few yet have the moral courage to record their names to such an avowal; and even some of these petitioners are so squeamish on this subject, as to say that they might, from conscientious principles, be prevented from holding slaves.
'I don't mind drinking out of a jug, said Paul, 'but I like a clean jug. I've read Aristophanes in translation. It's like drinking wine out of a gold cup that has been washed in a sewer. 'Who says that? asked Darco. 'I do, said Paul. 'It is a ferry coot ebicram, said Darco. 'I vill rememper id. But, mindt you, to be squeamish is not to be glean-minded. If a sdory is vunny, I laugh. Vy not?
The newly-aroused appetite of the Mongolian will soon be an important factor in the extermination of animals and birds, few species being exempt, for the Chinaman lives up to his reputation and is not squeamish as to the nature of his meat.
"Haven't you heard who killed Isay?" He stopped in his clumsy pacing of the room to turn to Pavel. "No!" Pavel answered briefly. "There you got a man who wasn't squeamish about the job! And I'd always been preparing to do it myself. It was my job just the thing for me!" "Don't talk nonsense, Nikolay," Pavel said in a friendly manner.
And we're even-matched. Two draws, and a decision to each. Honest, I ain't any kind of a hunch who's gain' to win, we're that even. "Now, the fight. You ain't squeamish, are you?" "No, no," she cried. "I'd just love to hear you are so wonderful." He took the praise with a clear, unwavering look, and without hint of acknowledgment.
Ridley shrank away from such lawless people with the delicacy belonging to his timid and retiring nature, but it must be owned that Mr. Clive was by no means so squeamish. He did not know, in the first place, the mystery of their iniquities; and his sunny kindly spirit, undimmed by any of the cares which clouded it subsequently, was disposed to shine upon all people alike.
"Behind that rock we'll be safe from all the heathen in the Chinese Sea." "The lady she said there'd be trouble," Neddie wailed insistently, "and I ain't going over that rock. No, sir, not when I feel squeamish like I do now." With an angry snort Blodgett hesitated on the very summit of the ledge. "Come on, come on," he said. "Listen dah!" the cook whispered.
He was not unduly squeamish far from it; but, be it remembered, he had only just left a world of ease and luxury, where snow-white linen and tasteful surroundings were necessary adjuncts to existence. Therefore these things came to him in the nature of a shock.
"Nothing very direct I heard from de Vallorbes about three months ago. I don't think I am faithless indeed I held on to her as long as I could, Richard! I am not squeamish, and then I always prefer to stand by the woman. But whatever de Vallorbes may have been, he pulled himself together rather admirably from the time he went into the army. He wanted to keep straight and to live respectably.
When my father died, she took matters in hand, but she only outlived him a few months. If she had lived I believe that she would have retrieved our fortune. I know that she had more executive ability than my father. He was very squeamish about selling his servants, but she would have put every one of them in her pocket before permitting them to eat her out of house and home.
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