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He had brains in abundance, and a somewhat better education would have made of him either a successful honest man or a rascal of superior scope it is always a toss-up between these two results where a character such as his is in question.
No, Laura had always flown her hawk high, and she was now bent on making a splutter. It ended by being a toss-up between a play in the Shakesperian manner and a novel after Scott. She decided on the novel. It should be a romance of Venice, with abundant murder and mystery in it, and a black, black villain, such as her soul loved no macaroon-nibblers or rompers with children for her!
"That was after your watch was missing, and I found he had been in the room while I was out. But, for that matter, Link was in there, too. It was a sort of toss-up between the two. Poor Link, it's been mighty unpleasant for him, to be accused wrongly. I wonder how that valuable book got in his room?" "The quadrangle thief put it there, of course."
"They can cheer all they please for the Dauntless eleven, but they have got to act like gentlemen." As soon as the two elevens appeared, the practice commenced, and then there was a toss-up for goals, which Dauntless won. They took the south goal and Putnam Hall took the ball. Then came the kick-off, and the game was on.
She had to break the hold that Reggie had on her. You don't know what it was like, Wally. She had to break it or she could never have married Jimmy at all. It was a toss-up between them; and Jimmy won." "Is it going to be a toss-up between them all over again, d'you think?" I said. "No. It's going to be war to the knife.
But it's best as it is a deal best, no doubt. If you was only back safe in camp " "O God! cease! I am not worthy one thought of love like yours." "Yes, you are, sir leastways, you was to me. When you took pity on me, it was just a toss-up if I didn't go right to the gallows. Don't grieve that way, Mr. Cecil.
'Why, it's not so very long ago, you know, said Tom Pinch, 'after all. 'It seems an age to me, cried John, 'and so it ought to seem to you, you dog. And then he pushed Tom down into the easiest chair, and clapped him on the back so heartily, and so like his old self in their old bedroom at old Pecksniff's that it was a toss-up with Tom Pinch whether he should laugh or cry.
It's a toss-up, of course. One thing is sure, you can't make friends with that kind if they get a notion you're up to anything." "Sally, you must remember " Mr. Bentley began. Her tone became modified. Mr. Bentley was apparently the only human of whom she stood in awe. "All I meant was," she said, addressing the rector, "that you've got to run across 'em in some natural way."
Once in a swollen ford where the current had come boiling up mount and rider were lifted and swept downstream, and for a matter of long moments it was a toss-up whether water-power or mule-power would prevail. Through the caldron roar of storm-fed waters, then, the girl could hear the heavy, straining breath in the beast's lungs, and the strong lashing of its swimming legs.
"It's a toss-up, just as Thad says, whether anything worth while will come of my experiment," he told himself; "but, anyhow, I've given Nick something to think over. And if he makes the first advances toward me I'm bound to meet him half-way. I only hope it turns out like the story of Jean Valjean did.
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