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"Tell me your side of it," said Bartholomew Berg tersely. "All of it?" Jock's confidence was returning. "Till I stop you." "Well," began Jock. And standing there at the side of the Old Man's desk, his legs wide apart, his face aglow, his hands on his hips, he plunged into his tale.
That's the whole story, an' I guess Steve takes it as a warnin'. Any way, he ain't no friend to rum nor swearin', Steve ain't. He knows Pretty Quick's ways shortened his mother's life, an' you notice what a sharp lookout he keeps on Rufus." "He needs it," Ike Billings commented tersely. "Some men seem to lose their wits when they're workin' on logs," observed Mr.
"Two scratches for me, too," said Wharton. "Which proves what I told you," said Carstairs, "that it was often luck, not skill, that saved you." "Both count," said Captain Colton, tersely. "Napoleon had immense skill. Suppose bad luck had sent a bullet into his heart in his first battle in Italy. Would have been forgotten in a day.
Mrs. Fenwick Miller's letter of adhesion is worthy republication; it puts so tersely the real position: "59, Francis Terrace. Victoria Park. "March 31st. "My dear Mrs. Besant, I feel myself privileged in having the opportunity of expressing both to you and to the public, by giving you my small aid to your defence, how much I admire the noble position taken up by Mr.
Even as I reached this decision, Craig, noting our pause, had ridden back, and reined in beside us without a word. "You are right," I said tersely. "In one sense of the word you are prisoner, for the time being at least, but not through any wish of mine. We do not make war on women, and your being in this situation is altogether an accident.
He may be mistaken, and there is no use frightening the men, until we are certain." "Shelton," asked Kennedy, "what sort of flash oil is used to lubricate the machinery?" "It is three-hundred-and-sixty-degree Fahrenheit flash test," he answered tersely. "And are the pipes leading air down into the tunnel perfectly straight?" "Straight?"
When he had finished, Jack took the paper from the machine and handed it to the editor, saying: "There, that is my opinion of the situation. You may not agree with it but that is how I think." The editor read over the article carefully and then said with more spirit than he had yet betrayed: "It is the thing in a nutshell. It is tersely put and carries conviction with every sentence.
Kellow sat back in his chair, smoking quietly, but I could feel his black eyes boring into my brain. When he judged that the time was fully ripe, he drew a fat roll of bank-notes from his pocket, stripped ten ten-dollar bills from it and tossed them across the table to me. "There's the stake, and here's the lay," said he, tersely.
'Who is it? he asked in rather a jovial tone. He felt at peace with the world now Hazel was here. 'Beast! Edward said tersely. 'Just come in a minute, my lad, and let's have a look at you. People don't call me names twice. Hazel had heard Edward's voice. She ran to the door, and the apple-green gown rustled about her. 'Ed'ard! Ed'ard! Dunna go for to miscall him! He'll hurt 'ee!
"That you tell me how you knew so much of this affair." He tapped the silver coin which lay on the table near them. "I am not easily flabbergasted," he added. "You won't believe that there is nothing to explain that it was purely second-sight?" "No," replied Carlyle tersely: "I won't." "You are quite right. And yet the thing is very simple."
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