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And in the glow of her enthusiasm she decided then and there not to abandon the Yellett educational problem till she should have solved it successfully. She might not be born to valiant achievement, like these sturdy folk about her, but she might as well prove to them that an Eastern tenderfoot was not all feebleness and inefficiency. "Leander!" called Mrs. Yellett.
The fishermen were already congregating there, and their wives were standing in the doors of their dwellings to gaze upon the welcome sight. The vessel's white wings slowly brought her round to the little wharf, revealing the skipper's sturdy person, and Mr. Snape's long and solemn visage.
"I asked Neddy Prichard to go down to the baker's and get it for you; but he wouldn't." "Then I say no more, except to hope you're better." "It's my froat," explained Bert, a sturdy, flaxen youngster of ten. "One more point I should like to raise while you are here. Have you noticed that garden chair in the porch?" "Yes, I have, and wondered why 'twas left there." "Wonder no more, Bert.
Wully Johnstone declared his boys and girls were as smart as any Gordons living and they would show the truth of the same. Such sturdy young Canadians as these High School pupils were, thought little of a few miles' walk morning and evening. But the girls were developing into lengthening skirts, and Miss Gordon thankfully accepted the ride through the deep snow for Jean.
But the sturdy Madame Loiseau, who had the soul of a gendarme, continued morose, speaking little and eating much. Conversation naturally turned on the war. Terrible stories were told about the Prussians, deeds of bravery were recounted of the French; and all these people who were fleeing themselves were ready to pay homage to the courage of their compatriots.
Meanwhile Frits had returned from the Free State, and my knee was cured. We each bought ourselves a sturdy pony, and left, with some other burghers, by train for Klerksdorp, from where we went on to Dewetsdrift, on the Vaal River. General Viljoen was guarding the drift there with some hundreds of burghers.
Look, for example, at that very powerful and numerous body the Dissenters, the descendants of those sturdy Patriots who hurled Charles the Simple from his throne." "There are some sturdy fellows amongst them, I do not deny," said the man in black, "especially amongst the preachers, clever withal two or three of that class nearly drove Mr.
Such a combination of manly beauty with unshakable courage and reckless audacity was not often seen as Lacy exhibited. Sempland was homely. Lacy had French and Irish blood in him, and he showed it. Sempland was a mixture of sturdy Dutch and English stock. Yet if women found Lacy charming they instinctively depended upon Sempland.
But sturdy Andrew MacEwan, the Scotchman with the forty-inch barrel chest, would reach out for his big can of naval tobacco, slipped to him by the sailors at Dunkirk when the commissariat officer wasn't looking, and would light his short stocky pipe, shaped very much like himself, and then we were all off together on a jaunt around the world.
He looked down at the sturdy face with its steady eyes, tightly gripped mouth, and chin which had suddenly grown squarer. "If I let you go will you promise not to fight?" "I will promise not to fight him here if he will come out behind the barn," said Gordon. "But if he don't, I'm going to fight him here. I am going to fight him and I am going to whip him." Mr. Rhodes considered.
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