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No fact in nature is fraught with deeper meaning than this two-sided fact of the extreme physical similarity and enormous psychical divergence between Man and the group of animals to which he traces his pedigree. It shows that when Humanity began to be evolved an entirely new chapter in the history of the universe was opened.
At last she said abruptly: "I don't see what harm there is in my wishing not to tie myself. I don't want to begin life by marrying. There are other things a woman can do." "There's nothing she can do so well. But you're of course so many-sided." "If one's two-sided it's enough," said Isabel. "You're the most charming of polygons!" her companion broke out.
But the Miss Dent of the Dunottar Castle " She interrupted him a little abruptly. "Does that mean I am two-sided?" "No; only complex." She smiled in gracious response. "You did that very well, Mr. Weldon," she said, with a slight accent of superiority which galled him. Then, before he could reply, she changed the subject, speaking with a lowered voice. "And what of the Captain?"
The Politiques were particularly patriotic, and they blamed the religious wars and the intolerant policy of the Guises for the seeming weakness of the French monarchy. They thought the massacre of Saint Bartholomew's Day a blunder as well as a crime. The emergence of the Politiques did not immediately make for peace; rather, it substituted a three-sided for a two-sided conflict.
Now, however, with him away and with General Canby ruling in place of Banks, she and her dear fragile old grandmother could breathe a little. They breathed much. We need not repeat that the younger was a gifted borrower. She did other things equally well; resumed a sagacious activity, a two-sided tact, and got Irby paroled.
This was not the only new influence which entered into and increased the tumult of my mind. The other half of my two-sided nature the cool, reflective, investigating faculty had been gradually ripening, and the questions which it now began to present seriously disturbed the complacency of my theories.
To this, as a burner of joss-sticks and an irregular person, he can only reply by a deprecatory waving of both hands and a reassuring smile. With the two-sided memories of many other details hanging thickly around his brush, it would not be an achievement to continue to a practically inexhaustible amount.
"Strips will do, only you'll have to use two for each leg. Nail them together at right angles. It will make a two-sided leg, but it will be plenty strong enough, though perhaps not truly handsome." "If handsomeness means solidity no. Still, they'll do.
The contract between government and subject ought to be a two-sided one; and when the government so entirely misuses the taxes paid by the people, I am quite inclined to sympathize with the subjects who will not pay them if they can help it. We scarcely entered the town of Cholula, which is a poor place now, though it was a great city at the time of the Spanish Conquest.
I would go without shirts or shoes, Friends, tobacco or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head. The Two-Sided Man. 'Then in God's name take blue for red, said Mahbub, alluding to the Hindu colour of Kim's disreputable turban. Kim countered with the old proverb, 'I will change my faith and my bedding, but thou must pay for it.
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