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"But mightn't starving be harder for him to experience than for you to witness, y' know?" asked the Briton. At this one of the et ceteras made a sort of snuffing noise, and ate his dinner hard. It was the male honeymooner who next spoke. "Must have been quite a tussle, ma'am." "It was an infamous onslaught!" repeated Juno. "Wish I'd seen it!" sighed the honeymooner.

'tis a little chill, and, as I said, 'tis not all told in a moment he's not dead, though, that's the sum of it you first, pray proceed, gentlemen. Dangerfield grimly took him at his word; but the polite major got up a little ceremonious tussle with Toole in the hall.

But this would be placing myself in an awkward situation. I should be in the trap as well as he, and he no nearer destruction than ever, unless I finished him by a hand-to-hand tussle. Of course, I knew I could conquer and kill the rat.

She did not faint as she had done once before that day, but she looked as if she should die. One sharp cry, instantly suppressed, for Afy did retain some presence of mind, and remembered that she was in the public road one sharp tussle for liberty, over as soon, and she resigned herself, perforce, to her fate. "I have no evidence to give," she said, in a calmer tone. "I know nothing of the facts."

I've had many a tussle with that old Apollyon, and often got worsted, but not always. Come under my shield, and we'll fight till we win.

By a quick movement which an old bass-fisherman taught me I made my bait dart like an arrow straight over the water more than one hundred feet, my reel at the same moment whirling, in paying out, as if it would fuse from friction. Well, I soon hooked a fifty-pound fish, and we had a tussle that I shall never forget.

"I don't think any one will, except, perhaps, Dad; and he always knows where to find me." "Your father will certainly not leave town before the end of the season," said Lady Raffold, raising her voice slightly. "Poor dear Dad!" murmured Priscilla. "And so I escaped. Her ladyship didn't like it, but it was worth a tussle."

When Jack saw them he came forward, wiping from his face the beads of perspiration which the tussle had brought there. "Señor Hunter tells me that you are going away," Don Andres began almost at once. "That you are acting wisely I am truly convinced, Señor Allen, though it irks me to say that it is so.

Davenport Hill, the Recorder of Birmingham, made a professional reputation for himself in the committee-rooms of the Houses of Parliament, he had many a sharp tussle with one of those venal witnesses who, during the period of excitement that terminated in the disastrous railway panic, were ready to give scientific evidence on engineering questions, with less regard to truth than to the interests of the persons who paid for their evidence.

'Observe the sneer: for our verses are smoke, said Con. Miss Mattock pressed him to sing. But he had saddened his mind about old Ireland: the Irish news weighed heavily on him, unrelieved by a tussle with Rockney.