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It's a ten-to-one shot that Miller took the chance to plug Doble and make me pay for it." "Looks likely, but we'll never know. Son, you've had a rotten deal handed you." The younger man's eyes were hard as steel. He clamped his jaw tight, but he made no comment. "Nobody can give you back the years of yore life you've lost," the cattleman went on.
But it must be slow variety, e.g., if you shew a patient ten or twelve engravings successively, ten-to-one that he does not become cold and faint, or feverish, or even sick; but hang one up opposite him, one on each successive day, or week, or month, and he will revel in the variety.
There were other concealed devices. Some would make the controls of predetermined ships useless when beams of specific frequency and form were trained upon them. Once the basic idea was discovered, it was possible to make sure that all such enemy-supplied equipment was out of operation. The fleet was still in no promising situation, with a ten-to-one disadvantage.
"Why, it's a ten-to-one shot the track'll end on your claim." With one accord all looked across the level quarter, where the new green was creeping in after the late rains. "A railroad! An' a town!" The section-boss pulled at his grizzled goatee. "They'll make this piece worth a heap!" "They will," agreed Lounsbury.
"It 'll be a lot of money if I should lose " He turned suddenly to Dave. "How much was that you put up agin the kid, Dave?" "One hundred dollars, and a ten-to-one shot I win," Dave drawled. "That ought to satisfy yuh it ain't a frame-up. The kid's crazy, that's all." "Oh! Am I?" Bud turned hotly. "Well, I've bet half of all the money I have in the world.
It would be a fight of brawn and brain, unless and those few who knew the "inner story" spoke softly among themselves. An ox in strength, gigantic in build, with a face that for days had worn a sneering smile of triumph, O'Grady was already picked as a ten-to-one winner.
"The chicken gives a shriek, 'n' starts to hug me right in front of the swell guy. "'I seem to be dee tro, says he, 'n' backs out the door. "'Where did you get the money? says the chicken, countin' the roll. 'Why! There's over a hundred here! "I takes fifty bucks fur myself, 'n' hands her the rest. "'I cops it at a poolroom, I says. 'A ten-to-one shot comes through fur me. Now get busy.
"Then that's where we'll find him. In that old, abandoned camp," he exclaimed. "It's a ten-to-one bet that he got some supplies up there some time within the last few days, when he made up his mind to do this job, and that he plans to lay quiet there until it is safe for him to get out of the country." The others nodded their heads sagely.
So it isn't quite built on the ten-to-one ratio of your high-speed steamers; but its lines are sufficiently long, and their tapering gradual enough, so that the displaced water easily slips past and poses no obstacle to the ship's movements. "These two dimensions allow you to obtain, via a simple calculation, the surface area and volume of the Nautilus.
When may a man be said to have four hands? When he doubles his fists. Why is it easy to break into an old man's house? Why should you not go to New York by the 12:50 train? Because it is ten-to-one if you catch it. Why should the male sex avoid the letter A? Because it makes the men mean. When does a man sneeze three times? When he cannot help it. What relation is the doormat to the scraper?
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