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Speckle, who had been driven to the gate for Edna's inspection, stood close to the paling, thrusting her pearly horns through the cracks, and watching the party at the table with her large, liquid, beautiful, earnest eyes; and afar off Lookout rose solemn and sombre. "Edna, you eat nothing. What ails you, child! They say too much brainwork is not healthy, and I reckon you study too hard.
There is no more fundamental brainwork in it than in a game I saw being played in a railway carriage the other day, when a man drew a handful of coins from his pocket and bet his friend half-a-sovereign that there would be more heads than tails lying uppermost. This is a game at which it is possible to lose five pounds in two minutes.
The country ahead was a tangle of small flat-tops, crisscrossed by a network of badland washes and cut-bank draws, and for two miles he eluded the dog pack by sheer brainwork and cunning. But the hounds pressed him hard. Their speed was greater than his own and each time they lost sight of him they spread out both ways.
A couple of hours' serious brainwork in the day was all that was ever possible to him henceforward.
Prosperity and smooth-traveling along the easy ways, even though they come to one as the reward of brainwork, lead to a certain flabbiness in life, lead to many moments when you have to stop and ask whether things are worth while, lead sometimes, I think, to that curious neuroticism from which clever, successful people suffer as well as the butterflies of fashion.
Corbett here can pound down the grassy field for a goal in mercuryball, and I'll do the brainwork of space chess." The three visiting cadets exchanged sharp glances. "Everybody plays together, Manning," said Dixon. "You three take part in each sport as a unit." "Of course," nodded Roger. "Of course as a unit." The three cadets stood up, shook hands all around and left.
Establishing a planning department merely concentrates the planning and much other brainwork in a few men especially fitted for their task and trained in their especial lines, instead of having it done, as heretofore, in most cases by high priced mechanics, well fitted to work at their trades, but poorly trained for work more or less clerical in its nature.
This was the result of some rather feverish brainwork on the way from the links to the cottage. The periodical flopped to the floor. 'Oh, Archie, are you hurt? 'A few scratches, nothing more; but it made me miss my train. 'What train did you catch? asked Mrs Milsom sepulchrally. 'The one o'clock. I came straight on here from the station.
Prayer for the suffering souls in the Ursuline manual and forty days' indulgence. Repent, Stephen. STEPHEN: The ghoul! Hyena! THE MOTHER: I pray for you in my other world. Get Dilly to make you that boiled rice every night after your brainwork. Years and years I loved you, O, my son, my firstborn, when you lay in my womb. He's white. O, the fire of hell! The corpsechewer!
The answer to the first part of the charge is that the well-taught schoolboy of to-day is necessarily wiser in a hundred respects than Sophocles or Plato, since he represents not himself, but the brainwork of a hundred generations since those great men lived. And as to the second, if Mr.
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