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Miss Celia's last words made her brother unbend his brows, for he longed to get at his books again, and the idea of being tutor to his "man-servant" did not altogether suit him. "I'll tool him along at a great pace, if he will only go.
Every species waggles about in its definition, every tool is a little loose in its handle, every scale has its individual error. So long as you are reasoning for practical purposes about finite things of experience you can every now and then check your process and correct your adjustments.
I had no idea that any man could work so with a shovel, which seems such a clumsy tool compared with a spade: but a gentleman who knows the country and the people told me that, with their native weapon, Moonites will do as much digging in an hour as other folk get through in an hour and a half with a spade. But this may be only, perhaps, because they are working harder.
Not being the acknowledged heir to the kingdom, for Tiberius Gemellus, the youthful grandson of Tiberius, was living, and Caius was by birth only his grand-nephew, he became a tool for the machinations of Marco the praetorian praefect and his wife Ennia. One of his chief friends was the cruel Herod Agrippa, who put to death St. James and imprisoned St.
She meant to be very careful during her interview, for she realized that she and Ruth were endeavoring to foil two brilliant and unscrupulous enemies. Mrs. Wilson and Peter were in the library, and through the window Mrs. Wilson had watched Bab approaching the house. "Here comes that tiresome Thurston girl, whom you were going to use as your tool, Peter," teased Mrs. Wilson.
For her love had been prosperous and smooth until, by a series of events, it had been brought into antagonism with two opposing interests those of her father and of a certain Fernan Perez, the tool and favourite of the powerful Duke of Villena. The ambition and selfish passion of these two men are enlisted against her.
It is not to be wondered at that at the moment Washington should regard a party swayed by the French minister and seeking to involve us in war as unpatriotic and dangerous. He even thought that one probable solution of Genet's conduct was that he was the tool and not the leader of the party which sustained him.
"What an odd frail little tool, Margot!" "I made it myself," said Margot. "And now, cherie, if you don't run along to Madame Morny, Kenny will scold me." She delighted Madame Morny with her willingness to work. She delighted Kenny with her willingness to play. Nothing tired her.
If the sides get out of shape, pass the tool along the stone, holding it at right angles to the side of the stone, but at the proper angle of elevation; in this case the tool is held near its end, between fingers and thumb.
This from Belknap-Jackson in bitter and judicial tones. He flung out his hands at Cousin Egbert in a gesture of pitiless scorn. "I dare say," he continued, "that poor Ruggles was merely a tool in his hands weak, possibly, but not vicious." "May I inquire " I made bold to begin, but Mrs. Effie shut me off, brandishing the newspaper before me. "Read it!" she commanded in hoarse, tragic tones.
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