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The young engineer was dumped on the ground as though he had been a sack of flour. "Great Scott!" quivered Tom Reade. "No one but Dick Prescott ever had that tackle down fine!" "Well, you blithering idiot!" came the indignant answer. "That's who I am -Prescott!" "You, Dick?" gasped Tom, stumbling ruefully to his feet. Then he leaped at his late foe, throwing his arms around him.
"When I need a blithering, no-'count upstart to teach me my business, I'll call on you and not before," a deeper, harsh voice snarled. "When you're farming for yourself you can feed the neighbors' critters on your corn all you've a mind to!" "Oh, dear!" Betty scrambled to her feet, forgetting the bouquet so carefully culled, and darted in the direction of the willow hedge. "I do hope Mr.
He cashed in thirty-five hundred dollars, and Shorty carried the dust home to the cabin. "Now's the time to jump the game," Shorty advised, as he sat on the edge of his bunk and took off his moccasins. "You're seven thousan' ahead. A man's a fool that'd crowd his luck harder." "Shorty, a man would be a blithering lunatic if he didn't keep on backing a winning system like mine."
"Yes, Erik...." "I haven't much right to ask for anything else...." Why in God's name could he think clearly and yet only talk like a blithering fool? He would pause and gather his wits. But then he would start making a speech ... four-score and seven years ago our forefathers.... "I'm sorry you came, Erik...." This couldn't be Anna. He closed his mouth and stared.
"By all means," said Raffles, restoring the paper to its envelope. "It's an ugly little load for one man's soul, I admit; but you must see it was about time somebody beat you at your own beastly game." "It's a pack of blithering lies," retorted Levy, "and you haven't beaten me yet.
What silly questions you do ask!" If he persisted in arguing the matter, saying: "But there are people who do not consider you an agreeable man." I should get angry with him. "Oh, they think that, do they?" I should say. "Well, you tell them from me, with my compliments, that they are a set of blithering idiots. Not agreeable! You show me the man who says I'm not agreeable.
There was driftwood, though not much, on the beach, and the sight of a coffee tin I had taken from the Ghost's larder had given me the idea of a fire. "Blithering idiot!" I was continuing. But Maud said, "Tut, tut," in gentle reproval, and then asked why I was a blithering idiot. "No matches," I groaned. "Not a match did I bring. And now we shall have no hot coffee, soup, tea, or anything!"
One rotten worried little beast wants to keep us other rotten little beasts off HIS patch, God knows why! Look at the weeds in it. Look at the mended fence!... There's no property worth having, Dick, but money. That's only good to spend. All these things. Human souls buried under a cartload of blithering rubbish.... "I'm not a fool, Dick. I have qualities, imagination, a sort of go.
It would be very easy to make a blithering ass of himself again with her because of her. Already he was on his guard against that. His pride was alert. Sophie stowed the canvas tool roll under the seat cushion. She climbed to her seat behind the steering column and turned to Thompson. "Which way are you bound?" she asked. "I'll give you a lift, and we can talk."
I don't know just how it came about, but the suggestion was made that I put into narrative form the lively history of my sojourn on the banks of the Danube, trusting implicitly to the imagination yet leaving nothing to it. "But it's all such blithering rot," said I. "So much the better," said they triumphantly even eagerly.
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