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But the universal consensus of opinion is that the fellow is a bounder and a tick, and that the moment he showed signs of wanting to get into the place he should have been met with a firm nolle prosequi and heartily blackballed."
And with a shove once more, poor Israel was ejected. Blackballed out of every club, he went disheartened on deck. So long, while light screened him at least, as he contented himself with promiscuously circulating, all was safe; it was the endeavor to fraternize with any one set which was sure to endanger him.
But that a man who has not even a decent name to offer who is blackballed by his county should coolly present himself as a pretendant is an insolence he should be kicked for." Betty arranged her campanulas carefully. There was no exterior reason why she should draw sword in Lord Mount Dunstan's defence. He had certainly not seemed to expect anything intimately interested from her.
In climbing out he had dropped the knife without noticing it. He had already left a piece of the blade inside. Frank Boyd was one of the lawless spirits who had caused much of the trouble all through the year. He had also been blackballed at the last election of the Thessalonian Society. It was very easy to believe that he would try to do something to spite the Thessalonians.
His candidacy had been posted. Under these conditions he did not dare advise him to withdraw; it would be taking too great a responsibility. If he were blackballed it would be very disagreeable. He finished by praying her to write and to return soon. Having read this letter, she tore it up gently, threw it in the fire, and calmly watched it burn. Doubtless, he was right.
Gladstone's Pity for Social Outcasts Mr. Chamberlain's Brothers Blackballed at the Reform Failure of an Attempt to Crush the Leeds Mercury Forster's Gratitude. I now approach an episode in my life which not only had a strong and permanent influence on my own career, but is of interest in its bearing on the politics of my time.
"No, but when a fellow's name is 'postponed' he can try again any time. If he's blackballed, he's a goner until next year." "Oh, well, I don't want to join the old Lyceum, anyhow," said his roommate with a scowl. "Yes, you do," responded Ned, "and I want you to. And I'm going to bring your name up again just as soon as I think there's a chance of getting you elected."
Blackballed. Excommunicated. He got up and began to stump about the room, hands in his pockets, chin on his collar, wrestling with it, and wrestling, mind you, just in profoundly interested bafflement. "'Unspeakable, he said. 'Excommunicated. By Jove, it's astounding. It's amazing. It's like a stupendous conjuring trick.
He's one of those homoeopathic Johnnies, and would be blackballed on societies of which I'm a vice-president.
It conveyed to her social ostracism not being asked to serve on church committees omitted when invitations for teas were being issued cold-shouldered out of the Y.A.K. Society, which met monthly for purposes of mutual improvement of being blackballed, perhaps, when she would become a Maccabee!
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