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You think to tie my hands by this crime, and have me in your power. That's it, isn't it? What good will that be to you? What the devil do you want with me? Look at me. Once for all, am I the man for you? And let me alone." "Has Fedka been to you himself?" Verhovensky asked breathlessly. "Yes, he came. His price is fifteen hundred too.... But here; he'll repeat it himself. There he stands."
It is in the former respect that Miss Austen stands apart from most, if not from all, women who have written novels. Irony is by no means a frequent feminine gift; and as women do not often possess it in any great degree, so they do not as a rule enjoy it.
We don't fight with women; have a care, therefore, that none of you take deliberate aim at her, and spare that part of the deck where she stands in the fight, if you can. Pass the word along." "Well, I 'm blessed," said one old gun captain, sotto voce, "be they come out against us with wimmen!"
To teach a school is, in the opinion of many, little else than sitting still and doing nothing. Has any man wasted all his property, or ended in debt by indiscretion and misconduct? The business of school-keeping stands wide open for his reception; and here he sinks to the bottom, for want of capacity to support himself.
WAR. stands in admiration. Wat. Ah, Warren! here you are before me! Mr. Gervaise, I hope I see you well. War. Mr. Waterfield an old friend of yours, Gervaise, I believe. Ger. I cannot appropriate the honour. Wat. I was twice in your studio at Rome, but it's six months ago, Mr. Gervaise. Ha! A Psyche! Wings suggested by Very skilful! Contour lovely! Altogether antique in pose and expression!
They are mere apertures in the log wall, and of limited dimensions, but on this account all the better for their purpose, being large enough to serve as loopholes through which they can deliver their fire. The position is not unfavourable for defence. The cabin stands close to a cliff, with but passage way behind.
It stands directly over the place where the well is to be dug. It is from thirty to eighty feet in height, according to the depth at which it is hoped to find oil. There must also be an engine house to provide the power for drilling. An iron pipe eight or ten inches in diameter is driven down through the soil until it comes to rock. Now the regular drilling begins.
And no point stands more invitingly open at the present moment for an experiment so indispensable to the true prestige of her power and greatness, than Ireland.
The law and teachings of Muḥammad, and the explanations and commentaries of ‘Alí, are a heavenly bounty; if they wish to give this bounty, they have power to do so. If they do not wish it, the rain will not fall: in this connection rain stands for bounty.
Evidently, it is not considered safe to go about in Switzerland, even in town, without an alpenstock. If the tourist forgets and comes down to breakfast without his alpenstock he goes back and gets it, and stands it up in the corner.
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