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As he ate, his shoulders swung to the heave of his arms, attacking the food on his plate as an enemy to be downed catch-as-catch-can style, no holds barred. Little stared in amazement at first. He shot a quizzical glance at Barry when the mate absorbed a cupful of scalding coffee with one gurgling, sucking swallow.
"Wal, now," drawled Jim, as he nervously stroked his beard, "let's take it easy. Which opening do all you fellers prefer?" No one answered. One man finally inquired. "How many kinds is there?" Jim said, "Wal, there's the Methodist, the Baptist, the Graeco-Roman, Episcopalian, and the catch-as-catch-can." "Give us the ketch-and-kin-ketch-as-you-kin," responded the spokesman.
Charleton Falkner and some of his pals will be smarty, but the young fry will sure try to break up every meeting you have." "The modern youngster is pretty rough!" sighed the preacher. "Here in Lost Chief," agreed Grandma promptly, "they are the most rough-and-tumble, catch-as-catch-can batch of young coyotes that ever lived. They don't respect God, man, nor the devil. And why should they?
In my jaw are cunning artifices of the dentists which replace the parts of me already gone. Never again will I have the thumbs of my youth. Old fights and wrestlings have injured them irreparably. That punch on the head of a man whose very name is forgotten settled this thumb finally and for ever. A slip-grip at catch-as-catch-can did for the other.
He took Kirk's hand, offered his arm gallantly to Felicia, and they all entered the high-studded hall, where the firelight, reaching rosy shafts from the library, played catch-as-catch-can with the shadows. Supper, a little later, was served in the dining-room the first meal that the Sturgises had eaten there.
Our cousins, the English, excel at archery, tea-drinking and putting the fifty-six pound protest. Thus we lead the world at contesting Olympian games and winning them, and they lead the world at losing them first and then contesting them. In catch-as-catch-can wrestling between Suffragettes and policemen the English also hold the present championship at all weights. And so it goes.
Elsie, taking her eyes off Suarez for an instant, discerned Gray's figure silhouetted against the sky. She yielded. "There is a rope ladder fastened to the lowest rail, near where the canoe was moored," she said. "Is there to be any catch-as-catch-can business, Boyle?" demanded Gray. "No. All this is d d unfair to me." "You have my sympathy, friend, but you can't leave the ship.
This time, he heard the knock, and when he opened up the door, Opportunity made a rush for him, grabbed him by the collar catch-as-catch-can in a grip he could not shake off. Mr. Harum examined as best he could the glucose the German student had made, and then he watched the whole experiment worked out over again. What the particular ingredients were, was still a secret.
The cook goes off for her Thursday evening in a taxi, but you will have to mend the roof, stanch the plumbing and curry the furnace with your own hands. There are ten trains to take you to town of an evening, but only two to bring you home. Yet going to town is a luxury, coming home is a necessity. The supply of grape juice seems almost unlimited, yet coal is to be had catch-as-catch-can.
"Is he quiet?" asked the artist, as a young bull with a curly red coat came inquiringly towards them. "He's playful at times," said Tom, leaving his half-brother to wonder whether the bull's ideas of play were of the catch-as-catch-can order.
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