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Given as he was to snubbing and browbeating others, Borrow was not a man to sit silent and see another man badly treated without raising hand or voice in his defence. Proof of this is found in an instructive story related by Mr. J. Ewing Ritchie in his chatty “East Anglian Reminiscences.” “One good anecdote I heard about George Borrow,” writes Mr.
"It's no use pretending not to see what's as plain as daylight," said Pembury, as he turned and hobbled away. The Fifth meanwhile had been holding a sort of court-martial on the affair. Simon was made to repeat his story once more, and stuck to it too, in spite of all the browbeating he got. "What makes you so sure of the exact time?" asked one of his inquisitors.
But the Chairman was helplessly futile and his futility was only emphasised by Mr. Wigglesworth's attempts now at browbeating which were met with derision and again at entreaty which brought only demands for ruling on points of order, till the meeting was on the point of breaking up in confused disorder. "McNish, I think I'll take a hand in this," said Captain Jack in the Scotchman's ear.
No man had ever succeeded in browbeating him when panoplied in his wig and gown; nor had words ever been wanting to him when so arrayed. It had been suggested to him by an attorney who knew him in that way in which attorneys ought to know barristers, that he should stand for a certain borough; and he had stood and had been returned.
Then began one of those scenes of bullying and browbeating to which every newspaper, not at once powerful and honest enough to command the fear and respect of its advertisers, is at some time subjected. Haring, the victim personifying the offending organ, was stretched upon the rack and put to the question. What explanation had he to offer of The Patriot's breach of faith?
One evening he took to quizzing me on my plans, partly in Yiddish and partly in broken English, which he uttered with a strong Cockney accent, a relic of the several years he had spent in London. "I shall take up some higher things," I rejoined, reluctantly "And what do you call 'higher things'?" he pursued in his quizzical, browbeating way. "Are you going to be a philosopher?"
If necessary, they run in the whole gang and put each of them through a course of interrogation, accusation, and browbeating until some one breaks down or makes a slip that involves him in a tangle. These men are special policemen whose knowledge makes them detectives by courtesy.
The Buttons brought him a Yankee of browbeating presence in plain clothes almost before they had time to exchange a frightened whisper in recognition of the fact that there could be no doubt of the steam heat and elevator in this case.
There is no doubt that he bullied judges, was allowed enormous laxity in browbeating opposing counsel and witnesses, and, like Father O'Flynn, had a wonderful way with him, so far as the jury was concerned. When I saw him in Dublin, I at once realised how true must be the bulk of the stories of his great conceit.
Here he has been bothering me, madam, not to say browbeating me, and I've been moving heaven and earth for my part, and at last have secured the aids, and now hear him dismiss them!" "Bring them round here," said the patient suddenly. The surgeon quietly lifted from the floor a pair of crutches, and placed them in his patient's hands. "How many years must I rely on my aids?" he asked quietly.
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