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If you can get your arms on the other fellow before the ball is snapped, do it, but don't try it too long before or you won't be able to hold it. Try for the neck and arm position. It's the best. You can swing a man either way if you have that. If he gets under your arms and boxes you don't try to push forward by main force, because you'll be only wasting your strength.
Three times crusading armies for this name they bore, thinking with no serious opposition to enforce the decrees of the council invaded Bohemia, to be thrice driven back with utter defeat, disgrace, and loss; the Hussites, who for a long while were content with merely repelling the invaders, after a while, and as the only way of conquering a peace, turning the tables, and wasting with fire and sword all neighboring German lands.
I open the German book, and find a warfare conducted in a different manner. Here the Devil rides about wasting and destroying. Here temptations lie in wait for the soul; here pleasures, like glittering meteors, lure it into marshes and abysses. Watch and ward are kept here, and to sleep at the post is death.
They were a group of hard-working, hard-fighting freemen, who had come in with their wives and children to possess the land. They were obliged to use all their wit and courage to defend what they had already won without wasting their strength by grasping at that which lay beyond.
I want to get a better hold upon life, or else I do not see what is to keep me from going to pieces and wasting existence. It's rather difficult sometimes to tell what one thinks and feels " She had not really listened to him. "Who is that woman," she interrupted suddenly, "Mrs. Fly-by-Night, or some such name, who rings you up on the telephone?" Benham hesitated, blushed, and regretted it. "Mrs.
I'll be on that dredger all the way up, Garman. "Don't waste your time. There'll be no interference. In fact, if she needs help you can borrow the old Cormorant for a tugboat." "No, thanks. They do their own towing." "All right. But there's no sense of your going down there and wasting your whole Sunday on Gumbo Key. I suppose you'd do that; prejudice against breaking the Sabbath and all that?
He shrank, indeed, from all clear thought, let alone speech, on the subject, as from something indelicate, in a way irreverent. Her beauty remained to her, notwithstanding a gradual wasting as of fever. A peculiar, very individual grace of dress and of bearing remained to her likewise.
Bannon was thinking hard. "No," he finally said, "she can't. There ain't any use of wasting all day tomorrow unloading that cribbing and getting it across." Peterson, too, was thinking; and his eyebrows were coming together in a puzzled scowl. "Oh," he said, "you mean to do it tonight?" "Yes, sir.
I did not tell him that I knew who he was, as I was sure that this would only make matters worse for me. I did not, however, believe that they really meant to kill me; but what they would do was more than I could guess. Two of them taking me one by each arm led me along the road, without wasting another word on me. They walked very fast indeed.
Again Drake prayed the Queen to let him take the Revenge and the Western adventurers down to Lisbon; but the commissioners wrote full of hope from Ostend, and Elizabeth was afraid 'the King of Spain might take it ill. She found fault with Drake's expenses. She charged him with wasting her ammunition in target practice.
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