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If there were a more popular candidate in Alvord's place, or a less popular one in Sanford's place, it wouldn't be such a walkover!" "You you " Hendricks looked at Eunice in speechless admiration. The dancing eyes were impudent, the red lips curved scornfully, and she made a daring little moue at him as she readjusted her black lace veil so that a heavy bit of its pattern covered her mouth.
Having completed the satisfactory deal, the jeweller threw off the business manner and became chatty. "So you are going to the ball-game? It should be an interesting contest." Reggie van Tuyl, now by his own standards completely awake, took exception to this remark. "Not a bit of it!" he said, decidedly. "No contest! Can't call it a contest! Walkover for the Pirates!"
Several workmen, in white blouses, went along the track, placing litters beside the obstacles where falls occurred most frequently. "Do you think the gatekeeper will allow us to enter at this hour?" Zibeline asked. "I hope not!" Henri replied. "Well, then, I shall enter without his permission! You are free to declare me the winner. I shall be left to make a walkover, I see!"
Rains has this match in a walkover." "That remains to be seen," said one of Frank's friends, doggedly. "You may be right, but don't you fancy for a moment that Merriwell is going to give up without jumping. He isn't that kind of a hairpin, my boy." "Well, he might as well give up without another try, for he doesn't stand any show."
"Perhaps he thought his chances too slim for a walkover," he said in non-committal fashion, as Burr's best friend. "I hear, by the way, that the delegation from his old home is instructed to vote for him on the first ballot, whether or not." "He has a great name down in my parts," put in the farmer. "The people think he has the agricultural interests at heart.
"Well " "I never got out of Liverpool! Worked in a restaurant.... But next time ! I'll go clean to Constantinople!" Morton exploded. "And I did see a lot of English life in Liverpool." Mr. Wrenn talked long and rapidly of the world's baseball series, and Regal vs. Walkover shoes. He tried to think of something they could do.
Simkins was merciful and Steve's martyrdom was of short duration. After that, for a few days at least, Steve's Latin was much better, if not the best. The game with Cherry Valley deserves only passing mention. Viewed beforehand as a severe test of the Brimfield team's defence, the contest proved a walkover for the Maroon-and-Grey, the final score standing 27 to 6.
Several workmen, in white blouses, went along the track, placing litters beside the obstacles where falls occurred most frequently. "Do you think the gatekeeper will allow us to enter at this hour?" Zibeline asked. "I hope not!" Henri replied. "Well, then, I shall enter without his permission! You are free to declare me the winner. I shall be left to make a walkover, I see!"
And as many of them are better fed, better mannered, better educated, more confident and successful than the productive proletariat, the class war is not going to be a walkover for the Socialists."
"I am not!" retorted Danny. "It will be a walkover for me once I start. But I don't want Bert Bobbsey saying I took advantage of him, after the race is over." "You needn't be afraid I won't say so I won't have to," replied Bert. "All the same I think it would be better if we each had a push. I want to be fair, too."
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