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"Match this," he continued, reaching for his check-book and fountain pen and quickly filling out a check payable to "Cash" for ten thousand dollars, which he laid on the hardwood bar. "Match that, or admit you're a cheap, loud-howlin' bluffer!" Dorsey paused just an instant as he noted the amount of the check.
"This time you've got me goin'," was the slow reply. "Sizing him up one side and down the other when he called me back to pull my ear, I said, 'No, my young bronco-buster; you're a bluffer the kind that'll put up both hands right quick when the bluff is called. Afterward, I wasn't so blamed sure. One kind o' sand he's got, to a dead moral certainty.
You're nothing but a common, low-bred, swaggering bluffer, as the blind dubs around here are due to find out. You think you're a baseball pitcher. Excuse me while I laugh in my sleeve. You're the biggest case of egotistical jackassism it has ever been my luck to encounter. Next Saturday, when you get up against a real pitcher who can pitch, you'll look cheaper than thirty cents."
Norman, looking into the fascinating face of danger, was thrilled. "Then you wish to break off the engagement?" he said in the gentlest, smoothest tone. Burroughs brought his fist down on the table and Norman recognized the gesture of the bluffer. "I wish you to break off with that woman!" he cried. "I insist upon it upon positive assurances from you." "Fred!" pleaded Josephine.
The Vikings, as we have seen, anticipated by centuries some of the finest models of the modern world. The hulls of Cabot, Columbus, and Cartier were broader in the beam, much bluffer in the bow, besides being full of top-hamper on the deck.
Lely accordingly produced a stronger and bluffer face than is usual with him; though it is to be doubted, whether the sense of beauty to which he afterwards made such a sacrifice of his pencil, would have permitted him to go to the extent of Cromwell's direction, granting even that the instinct of a courtier had not prevented it.
"I don't suppose anything about it, so far as we two are concerned; I have your own word for it. You said you were the man in possession." Ormsby laughed again. "You are something of a bluffer yourself, David. Did you let my little stagger scare you out?" David Kent pushed his chair back from the table and nailed Ormsby with a look that would have made a younger man betray himself.
In the New World, no doubt, his energies would find a safer field, and even the adventurous and desultory habits of his childhood might there be put to healthful account. Those complaints of the disparities of the civilized world find, I suspect, an easier, if a bluffer, reply from the political economist than the Stoic philosopher.
Oh, my!" and Olaf nearly choked on the whiskey as he spluttered in reply. "Ay know vere one of das cuff-buttons is, all right! Und Ay bet you das long-legged old fake Hemlock Holmes never finds it, either! He is a big bluffer.
But I concluded later that it might have a remote and roundabout origin in the old army slang, "a spruce hand" at "brag" the latter being a variant of the game of poker, and a spruce hand, apparently, one which, held by a bluffer, contained cards of no real value. Some day these etymological mysteries must be probed.
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