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Having spent their lives hitherto in "besting" every one on a small scale, they are now besting the British nation on the large. Happily their profit is not so easily made now as in the old days of the Zulu war, when a waggon-load of food would be sold three times over on the way to the front and never reached the troops at all in the end.
It was a reminder of the long fighting life of the freelance, of all the stories she had heard of his sordid quarrels, of his blackmailing his relatives, and besting his uncle. She asked herself his own question, "Is genius, like the pearl in the oyster, only a splendid disease?" Aloud she said, "I hope you are done with Börne!" "Börne?" he said, softening. "Ach, what have I against Börne?
When we read how he wept at the death of his great enemy, and how "from the man who brought him Pompey's head he turned away with loathing, as from an assassin," we bow before the nobility of his character and realise that he was something more than a stern man and an adulterer. Pompey, too, had this gift of virtue this capacity for turning away from foul means of besting his enemies.
Maggie thought it was the sisters' fault that Owen Owens did not marry her, so she conceived a great scheme for "besting" them, and this was the tragedy which, through Emmerjane's quick little eyes and her cockney-Welsh tongue, came to me in instalments day by day. When her baby was a month old Maggie dressed it up "fine" and took it to the photographers for its "card di visit."
But in my humbler walk of life I know just how to utilise you. I lead you on, where you think you are going to gain some advantage over others; and by dexterously playing upon your love of a good bargain, your innate desire to best somebody else I succeed in besting you. There, sir, you have the philosophy of our mutual relations." He bowed and raised his cap. Charles looked at him and cowered.
Besting a day in Omaha, I obtain a permit to trundle my wheel across the Union Pacific Bridge that spans the Missouri River the "Big Muddy," toward which I have been travelling so long between Omaha and Council Bluffs; I bid farewell to Nebraska, and cross over to Iowa.
And Slum, quiet, unsophisticated Slum, shadier than the shadiest of them all, but a man who took the keenest delight in the humors of life, and who did wrong from an inordinate delight in besting his neighbors. A man to smile at, but to avoid. These were the men John Tresler, fresh from Harvard and a generous home, found himself associated with while he rested on his way to Mosquito Bend.
And here, in fern and yellow grass and tufted bights of bottom growth, the wind made entry for the sun, and they played with one another. Besting here, and thinking, with my face between my hands, I wondered what would be the end. Nothing seemed secure or certain, nothing even steady or amenable to foresight. Even guess-work or the wider cast of dreams was always wrong.
Being all unused to the possession of money, but accustomed to consider it as a weapon of which fortunate men obtained a hold to employ it in "besting" others less fortunate, he foresaw endless calls upon his cunning. He had observed, in the ports he had visited abroad, such statues erected in memory of men he had never heard tell of.
It is really astonishing what a large amount of water can be carried by such an endless chain. "Hurrah! We're besting it, lads! Keep it up!" shouted the agent, who was the man Frank had first addressed. Will had not joined the relay. There seemed to be plenty of recruits without him, and, truth to tell, he was bent on getting a picture of the scene.
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