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He'd have to be paid, of course; but the big grafter, the man who'd take the six-figure cheque, is likely not the Emperor. I don't know. You'd have to find that out. But the principle's sound. That's why I call myself a pacifist. There's tosh talked about pacifism, of course. There always must be tosh talked and texts. I don't undervalue texts as a means of influencing public opinion.
"I would swap the drought for rain, though it comes down in a sheet as in the year twelve." "And like a sheet it'll come," replied Dow, "and the deil'll blaw it about wi' his biggest bellowses." Tosh shivered, but Whamond shook him roughly, saying "Keep your oaths to yoursel', Rob Dow, and tell me, hae you seen Mr. Dishart?" "I hinna," Rob answered curtly, preparing to drive on.
It's preyed on Chirsty's mind, they say, this fower-and-thirty year 'at she doesna hae a richt parlour fender." "Leeby, look! That's Robbie Tosh wi' the barrow. He has a michty load o' luggage. Am thinkin' the minister's bound for Tilliedrum." "Na, he's no, he's gaen to Edinbory, as ye micht ken by the bandbox. That'll be his mither's bonnet he's takkin' back to get altered.
He was now listening to a final appeal from Peter in the hopes of gleaning something that might help him when he finally set his foot on the neck of Smallbones' charges. "See here, fellers," Peter said, with a quiet directness of manner, but in a voice that rose above the hum of general talk, and at once silenced it, "you've heard a whole heap of 'tosh' from Smallbones and his gang.
She tried once to draw Karslake about this acquaintance of his, but Karslake's memory proved unusually sluggish. "No-o," he drawled after a tolerably long pause for thought "can't say I place the chap you mean, can't seem somehow to think back that far, you know. One meets such a lot of people, first and last, they talk such a lot of tosh "
"A truce?... We're not going to allow any monkey tricks on the parapets. To hell with Christmas charity and all that tosh. We've got to get on with the war. That's my motto." Other men said: "We wouldn't mind a holiday. We're fed up to the neck with all this muck."
"What about Providence?" asked Mavis. "Don't talk that 'tosh' to me," cried Miss Toombs vehemently. "But is it 'tosh'?" "If I were to give you a list of even the few things I've read about, the awful, cruel, blood-thirsty, wicked doings, it would make your blood boil at the injustice, the wantonness of it all.
Perhaps it won't have any run." "Perhaps mine won't." "Yours. That heavenly book? And his tosh Don't you see that you can't get in his way? If anybody reads him they won't be the same people who read you." "I hope not. All the same it would be rather beastly to cut him out; I mean to come in and do it better, show how bad he is, how frightful. It would rub it in, you know." "Not with him.
"Some thinks," said the kirk officer, "that he's awa hunting for Rob Dow." "Nothing'll excuse him," replied Spens, "short o' his having fallen over the quarry." Hendry's was usually a blank face, but it must have looked troubled now, for Tosh was about to say, "Hendry, you're keeping something back," when the precentor said it before him. "Wi' that story o' Mr.
Into that tosh the house was invited to pour any fluid that could be spared. We scrubbed the Yahoo thoroughly, washed its teeth, ears, hair, and then we dried it. I don't know who smeared marmalade on to the towel, but the drying part was not very successful. Rather tough eh? Yes, very tough on us, but effective. The Greene person has toshed regularly ever since.
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