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"They say that he had a chance to run in somewhere, and browbeat Dicky into keeping on for Newport at the risk of their lives. They do Hugh an injustice. He might have done that some years ago, but he's changed." Curiosity got the better of Honora. "Changed?" she repeated. "Of course you didn't know him in the old days, Honora," said Mrs. Shorter. "You wouldn't recognize him now.
The Commandant solaced himself by uttering imprecations on her, on her husband, and on Elsje van Houwening. But these curses could not bring back the fugitive. He flew to Gorcum to browbeat the Daatselaers and to search the famous trunk.
With military and diplomatic affairs in this state and with Austria still holding out for her impossible conditions, 'twas easy for Dumouriez and the war party to browbeat the wellnigh desperate King into a declaration of hostilities that was to convulse the whole of Europe for nearly a quarter of a century. This was done on the 20th of April, three days after Mr.
He was a handsome bullet-headed man with a bold eye, and I knew that to browbeat or trick him would be no easy matter. Nevertheless he still had so many Kurds at his back that I doubted our ability to get the better of him in a fight, considering our condition. "I could be neutral if I saw fit," answered Ranjoor Singh, and the German's eyes glittered.
Don't let the Cabinet browbeat you, and smother you with plausible sophistries. Just talk plain English to them, Dawson." "I will. For once in their sheltered lives they shall hear the truth." For what follows, Dawson is my principal, but not my sole authority. I have tested what he told me in every way that I could, and the test has held.
More than once she dropped back so far that she lost sight of Whaley. Each time he came back with words of encouragement and good cheer. "Not far now," he would promise. "Across a little bog and then camp. Keep coming." Once he found her sitting on the snow, her back to a tree. "You'd better go on alone. I'm done," she told him drearily. He was not angry at her. Nor did he bully or browbeat.
I'll learn you to bully and badger and browbeat a gentleman that's forever trying to befriend you and keep you out of trouble!" "Please, Arkansas, please don't shoot! If there's got to be bloodshed " "Do you hear that, gentlemen? Do you hear him talk about bloodshed? So it's blood you want, is it, you ravin' desperado!
He has ever been a man of low instincts and loose habits, though he was considered what is called a smart lawyer. In my opinion this did not qualify him for his position as judge. A man may be cunning, and so is a fox. He may have the qualities which enable him to browbeat a witness, and so has a bully. He may have great volubility, and so has a Billingsgate fishwife.
The cliffs of Telegraph Hill browbeat it. It is, one might say, the last of its race. Another hospice if it was a hospice I remember. It stood on the corner of Clay and Sansome Streets, and was a very ordinary building, erected over the hulk of a ship that had been stranded there in the days of Forty-nine.
"Do you suppose I don't know?" he said. "Do you fancy I speak without knowledge? I've seen them come here rich and go away paupers. But you shall not; you shall keep what you have and spite them." He sent the woman up to her room to pack while he expostulated with and browbeat the excited bridegroom in the carriage.
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