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There may be no adverse causes at work, but somehow the bells of the soul stop ringing, and you feel like sitting quiet, and you strike off fifty per cent from all your worldly and spiritual prospects. The immediate cause may be a northeast wind, or a balky liver, or an enlarged spleen, or pickled oysters at twelve o'clock the night before.
This, perhaps, is not the only reason why I should stumble and shy along like a balky palfrey when I approach one of the trifling accidents which transpired immediately after our arrival at Sceaux. Thinking now this matter over, my withered cheeks lose their ashen hue, and burn again with the hot, tumultuous blood of youth and shame.
He had been deprived of his property and branded a convict by this man who boasted of his powers; but, like a thrown mule, if he could not have his way he could at least refuse to get up. He was down and out; but by a miracle of Providence, a hitch in the wording of the law, the slave-driver Murray could not proceed with his chariot until this balky mule got up.
If you mope and mumble this good dame will tumble, and she'll tell her neighbors that your head is sore; no one likes a dealer who's a dismal squealer, so your friends will toddle to some other store. When the luck seems balky, and the trade is rocky, that's the time to whistle, that's the time to grin!
For once even Betty-the-self-possessed was at a loss for the necessary tactics. A hearty voice soon filled the empty spaces: "Hello there, Ginty; I always did say those auto's was a poor imitation of a street-car; when they get balky and leave you sticking in the road-side and make you behind-time, you can't so much as get your fare back and walk.
The armies in the East and West acted independently and without concert, like a balky team, no two ever pulling together, enabling the enemy to use to great advantage his interior lines of communication for transporting troops from East to West, reinforcing the army most vigorously pressed, and to furlough large numbers, during seasons of inactivity on our part, to go to their homes and do the work of producing, for the support of their armies.
Floyd cannonades Gauley Bridge Effect on Rosecrans Topography of Gauley Mount De Villiers runs the gantlet Movements of our forces Explaining orders A hard climb on the mountain In the post at Gauley Bridge Moving magazine and telegraph A balky mule-team Ammunition train under fire Captain Fitch a model quartermaster Plans to entrap Floyd Moving supply trains at night Method of working the ferry of making flatboats The Cotton Mountain affair Rosecrans dissatisfied with Benham Vain plans to reach East Tennessee.
Besides, knowledge works down easier than it does up. Education must proceed from the more enlightened down to the more ignorant strata. If you want better common schools, raise the standard of the colleges, and so on. Build your fire on top. Let your light shine. I have seen people build a fire under a balky horse; but he wouldn't go, he'd be a horse-martyr first.
But Josiah didn't like their looks nigh so well as he duz the mair's, and sez he, "That off one looks balky." But I sez, "Distance lends enchantment; the mair can't begin with 'em." The altar piece is said to have cost three million. It is of gold and silver, and full of precious stuns.
He was the horse that belonged to Mr. Hobbs' grocery wagon. He was a beautiful horse when he wasn't balky." "Well," said Dawson, "you just wait till you've seen what's in the stables. And, deary me, you haven't looked even into the very next room yet!" "What is there?" asked Fauntleroy. "Wait until you've had your breakfast, and then you shall see," said Dawson.
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