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And as for Julyman he's as near cast iron as as you." "Yes, it was pretty tough." "Tough? Gee!" The doctor's final exclamation was one of genuine amazement. "It's near three weeks since we hauled the remains of you from that skitter-ridden river," he went on, "and a deal's happened in that time. Jack Belton's gone in for stores, and to report.
"That child's like a whirlwind," exclaimed Elizabeth crossly. "But we ought to be glad she's so much better. I was really afraid in the spring we wouldn't have her long." "Oh, the Leverett stock is tough." "But her mother died young." "Of that horrid India fever. No, I didn't truly think she would die. If she had, I wonder where all the money would go? Chilian is awful close-mouthed about it.
"Sure thing," said Buck, "they're a tough crew, I can tell you. We've got a lot more to do before we chill 'em cold." "That's true," said Dent. "After they smell blood there's no more holdin' them than you can hold a tiger." "We've punished them terribly already," said Jack.
Yet, though he and Dan had done all they could think of to catch the enemy, neither had had the least success in this line. "Eighty demerits more to go," muttered Dave, "and the superintendent will recommend to the Secretary of the Navy that I be dropped for general inaptitude. It seems a bit tough, doesn't it, Danny boy?" "It's infamous!" blazed Dalzell.
That O'Brien "had murder in his heart" is more than likely, because when his trial came off a "Bowery tough" who had been in prison with him in Dawson for some other offence testified that O'Brien had proposed that they should, when freed, go along the river and find a lonely spot.
It might wake him frantically at any sign of dozing until he cracked up from sheer insomnia ... or else let him sleep only when exhaustion produced unconsciousness rather than restful slumber. "That's a tough one!" he said disturbedly, and noticed that she still showed signs of her recent distress. "There's not much to be done about it, either!"
The other dwellers on the soil are a strange mixture of the Mediterranean race; and as it is impossible to describe them, or say what they are, we will just be content with the title they are proudest of the reptilian one of "rock scorpions" a tough, hardy people, though, notwithstanding their doubtful ancestry.
A thunder of hoofs and they were in touch; Constans felt himself hurled into space; the bridle-reins of tough plaited leather were torn from his hands; Night and he were down. The dust cloud cleared and the boy struggled up, although his head was still spinning from the shock of the encounter. Ten yards away lay the black mare with a broken foreleg.
The first has a darker bark, and is a tough wood; the other has a light yellow bark, and grows smoother and without knots, which is better for working up into the manufactured article. Either will grow to nine feet high the average height is six or seven feet. The usual time for cutting is about Good Friday that is, just before the leaf appears.
The road for the whole distance is level and fairly smooth; the Servian horses are, like the Indian ponies of the West, small, but wiry and tough, and although I press forward quite energetically, the whip is applied without stint, and when the passport office is reached we pull up alongside it together, but their ponies' sides are white with lather.
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