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Asaph was a good deal of a philosopher, and his motto was so he told me afterward, that time I spoke of when he'd been investigating the jug his motto was: "Every hard shell has a soft spot somewheres, and after you find it, it's easy." If he could only find out something that Deborah Badger was particular interested in, then he believed he could make a ten-strike.
"You got 'em beat a mile when it comes to playin' safe, that's right. Don't want to rile the water an' let everybody in on the fact that we're hangin' around here, waitin' for somethin' to turn up. 'Sides, it ain't good policy to make the ten-strike till they got the stuff on board the chuggin' speed boat."
"Do you mean Miss Berber?" "Yes," said McEwan, with an aggravating smile, as he devoured a slice of cake. "We're all expecting another ten-strike. Are you depicting her as a toe-shaker or a sartorial artist?" "Really, Wallace," protested Mary, who had grown quite intimate with McEwan, "you are utterly incorrigible in your Yankee vein you respect no one."
"I hear," said West, "that that little scientist I made you a present of last year has made a ten-strike." "Queed? An extraordinary thing," said the Colonel, relighting his cigar. "I was on the point of discharging him, you remember, with the hearty approval of the directors. His stuff was dismal, abysmal, and hopeless.
I'd be in it too but for that old Spotsylvania shot-hole and rheumatics. My eagles, however, will fold their wings and take a rest, but we'll flap 'em and scream every time you make a ten-strike. "Yours, as ever, "Martindale." Stuyvesant did not look up at once after finishing the letter.
She was a lovely little thing with a lovely name, Lupoba-Tilaana, "Mist-on-the-Mountain." "Swank," I said, "that's a ten-strike. The mountain is a little out of focus but the mist is immense!" He squirted me with yellow ochre. Whinney was in his element. Ornithology, botany, ethulology, he took them all on single-handed.
"Wonder what our guests aim to do now." "Can't we feed 'em anything more?" asked Bob anxiously. "Not unless we finish cookin' the pockmarked gent for 'em. I'm kinda hopin' old Colorow will have sabe enough not to wear his welcome out. It'd make a ten-strike with me if he'd say 'Much obliged' an' hit the trail."
Say, that re-minds me: your team's out there by the fence. I forgot. I'll go and put 'em up." "No, never mind; I can't stay but a few minutes." "Goin' to be round the country long?" "A week-maybe." Agnes looked up a moment and then let her eyes fall. "Goin' back West, I s'pose?" "No. May go East, to Europe mebbe." "The devul y' say! You must 'a' made a ten-strike out West."
At his lowest ebb, when his black suit was in pawn, he made a ten-strike or so it seemed to him in a prize contest arranged by the County Committee of the Republican Party. There were three branches of the contest, and he entered them all, laughing at himself bitterly the while in that he was driven to such straits to live.
He speaks of it in tremendous terms of approbation, so does Mrs. Hawthorne, to whom I read the conclusion last night. It broke her heart, and sent her to bed with a grievous headache which I look upon, as a triumphant success. Judging from the effect upon her and the publisher, I may calculate on what bowlers call a ten-strike. But I don't make any such calculation." And Mr.
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