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He swung her about on her hind legs with a wrench on the curb and a lift of his spurs, but when she leaped into a gallop he brought her back to the walk with a cruel jerk; she began to sidle across the field with her chin drawn almost back to her breast, prancing.
Mrs. Van Cortlandt asked me last winter if I wouldn't let her have McDonald for her little girl when we were through with her. She knew, of course, that we couldn't keep a governess much longer for Evelyn. I am going to write to her. She will jump at the chance." "And McDonald?" "Oh, she likes Mrs. Van Cortlandt. It will just suit her." "And Evelyn? That will be another wrench."
You see, you have changed already." "How, mother?" asked Gavin, surprised. "You said just now that those were boyish speeches. Gavin, I can't understand the mothers who are glad to see their sons married; though I had a dozen I believe it would be a wrench to lose one of them. It would be different with daughters. You are laughing, Gavin!" "Yes, at your reference to daughters.
"That saved you from worse trouble, then. The ligaments are not torn at all. The worst you've met with, Prescott, is a wrench of the knee, and there's a little swelling. It hurt to stand on your foot when you first tried to do so, didn't it?" "Yes, sir." "It would probably hurt a little less, now. No -don't try it," as Dick started to bolster himself up.
"I'll no name it for mysel' in the hearing o' the lass!" "Seems to need a lot of fancy lying when a greenhorn like me starts late and is obliged to do things in a hurry. Gives business methods an awful wrench, Andy!" "Aye!" The old Scotchman was emphatic. "In fact, in a political exigency, according to what I've found out this evening, the quickest liar wins!" He walked to Miss Bunker's side.
You played with me you made a fool of me. We'll see who's the fool in the end." With a mighty wrench he tore her from her saddle and she found herself struggling with him in the water. "If I put you under for a minute I guess you'll be good," he threatened. "I'll half drown you, Zen, if I have to." "Go ahead," she challenged. "I'll drown myself, if I have to." "Not just yet, Zen; not just yet.
Could she, whose every fibre responded so perfectly to the stimulus of this environment, who up till now but for moments of revolt had been so happy and at ease in it, could she wrench herself from it put it behind her and adapt herself to quite another, without, so to speak, losing herself, and half her value, whatever that might be, as a human being?
There must be one moment in which he definitely turns himself round and sets his face in the other direction. Some things are best done with slow, continuous pressure; other things need to be done with a wrench if they are to be done at all.
"She was very difficult; so I left the children with her and " "Chil " said Mrs. Prentice, and paused, unable to complete the word. "Five," said Mr. Barrett, in tones of resignation. "It was rather a wrench, parting with them, especially the baby. He got his first tooth the day I left." The information fell on deaf ears. Mrs.
A terrific wrench and it was free of the Ancient Mariner. The ring contracted and formed a chunk of the stuff free of the broken nose of the ship. It was carried over to the wall of the Ancient Mariner, a smaller piece snipped off as before, and carried inside. A piece of perhaps half a ton mass. "I hope they use good stuff," grinned Arcot.
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