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That sots her down, an' she holds good enough to stay in till I ram the muzzle inter ha'r an' let go. She's the same as meat on the fire." "Well," laughed Banion, "you've another case of de gustibus, I suppose." "You're another, an' I call it back!" exclaimed the old man so truculently that his friend hastened to explain.

"If not," he said truculently, "if they are really spirits, why can't they tell us what is going on, not in some vague place where they are always happy, but here and now, in the next house? I don't ask for prophecy, but for some evidence of their knowledge. Are the Germans getting ready to fight England? Is Horace here the gay dog some of us suspect?"

Out of the blanketing fog drifted trees, seaweed, bits of broken boats. And though Bering, like the English navigator Drake, was convinced that no Gamaland existed, he was confronted by the learned geographers, who had a Gamaland on their maps and demanded truculently, whence came the signs of land?

"It it was took!" sputtered his brother between chattering teeth. Another moment of scared silence. Then the driver rallied his awed faculties. Stepping on the self-starter, he brought the runabout into motion, and headed down the road. "Where are you goin'?" queried the other. "No use a-keepin' on, this d'rection. It " "If it was took," answered the driver, truculently, "'twasn't took by no car.

It is not good to misdirect the great sun which drives away the night and gives us the seal, the salmon, and warm weather." "What if it be evil medicine?" Nam-Bok demanded truculently. "I, too, have looked through the thing at the sun and made the sun climb down out of the sky."

I hope our boy doesn't marry some little French anybody. His face is not exactly pleasant to look upon for the time being, but he has a very winning personality." "Who's she mean that for?" demanded the Judge, truculently. "The Cowan boy?" On a day late in June of 1919 Wilbur Cowan dropped off the noon train that paused at Newbern Center.

They are told only that something is the matter: that it behooves them to find out what it is, and how to correct it, and then to work out the cure. All this is more or less truculently set forth.

Captain Dettmar demanded truculently. "Which governor?" "Of California. Did he lie to you like all the rest?" "I'll tell you what he said.

I repeated, stupidly, looking down at the man. He had turned to his work in the engine-well of the launch and presented his bowed back to us. In that attitude I heard him protest, very audibly: "I do not even know Spanish." "Hey? What? You dare to deny you come from over there?" the accomplished manager was down on him truculently.

Standing Rock has sent fifty thousand dollars in greenbacks to Spotted Tail. The messenger went through here to-day. Have you seen him?" "Nary messenger," replied Billy, in relief. "Stage goes empty." Charley had crept down the stairs and into the room. "What in hell are yo' doin' yere, yo' ranikaboo ijit?" inquired Billy, truculently.