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Ferdinand is in a strongish, but yet a dangerous position; and will give difficulties, and does give endless dubieties, to these high-plumed gentlemen galloping about with their spy-glasses for eight days. One possibility they pretty soon discern in him: His left flank rests on Lippe, yes; but his right flank is in the air, has nothing to rest on; here surely is some possibility for us?
That was not a question, so Gorman gave no answer. He merely puffed at his pipe which was not drawing well and looked at Sir Bartholomew's round plump face. "A rather wild young man," said Sir Bartholomew. "Dissipated would perhaps be too strong a word. What do you think?" "It is a strongish word," said Gorman. Sir Bartholomew tried another cast. "Mr.
The two bastions and their batteries date from A.D. 1700, and have been useful in administering a strongish hint in A.D. 1826 they fired into Captain Owen. The next work is the little four-gun work, Na. Sa. da Conceicao. We anchored in five fathoms about 1,200 yards off shore, in company with some fifteen craft, large and small, including a neat despatch cruizer, built after the "Nimrod" model.
"You're jest as good as some as makes a frap about bein' good. I think, sir, you put's on some of that light-come-go-away kind of a game." "Never mind; we'll only hope we'll have no more cases like that exactly. I don't know how we should have managed if there had been such another last week." "That was a strongish sea, and we're sure of more."
I might pretend to be drunk, but I could not, unfortunately, pretend to drink, and it was strongish ale. He made a motion to stop me welcome proof that he believed me tipsy in fact and said, "Master Wheatman, the less drunken you are, the better you will answer my questions."
You must go below at once, Miss. Jim, shove those bolts in." There was a shock, and Ferrier thought the mainsheet had parted; then three strongish seas hit the schooner until she shuddered and rolled under the immense burden. It was a fearful risk, but the vessel freed herself and drove to the smack.
"I think I am lazy," he says; "I will wait for you here." We set off; I with a strongish, but unexplained feeling of resentment against my companion. "Where are they?" I ask, pettishly; "not far off, I hope! I do not fancy I shall care about them!" "I did not suppose that you would," he replies, in an extremely happy tone; "would you like us to go back?"
Take this other symbolic passage, of nearly the same date; posterior, as we guessed, to that Interview at Wolnzach. "DINGELFINGEN, 17th MAY, 1743. At Dingelfingen on the Iser, a strongish central post of the French, about fifty miles farther down than that Schloss of Wolnzach, there is a second argument, much corroborative of the Kaiser's reasoning.
Voltaire, at his leisure in Brussels or the Old Palace and its spider-webs, writes much more expansively; not with insincerity, he either; with endless airy graciosities, and ingenious twirls, and touches of flattering unction, which latter, he is aware, must not be laid on too thick. As thus: This is a strongish trowelful, thrown on direct, with adroitness; and even this has a kind of sincerity.
One day a strongish breeze, which had somewhat cooled the air, tempted us to start away rather earlier than usual after our rest at noon, we having heard that we were approaching a country where a number of deer and a quantity of other game was to be found. By-the-bye, I had run a great chance that night of being devoured by not a leopard, or a hear, or a crocodile, however.
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