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He'll think you wish him to propose at once!" and both she and her sister burst out laughing at the idea. "So I would," said I, jokingly, notwithstanding that I felt as melancholy and little inclined for raillery as their mother, whose words seemed to clinch what old Shuffler had said.
Each used his left hand in struggling for the advantage, watching, warily, also, for a chance to use his feet or knees. On the other side of the house the firing still continued. Neither Dave nor his antagonist spoke. Silently they battled, until both went to the ground. Though Dave might have won with his fists, Cantor's superior weight and muscle counted in this deadly clinch.
That's what I can't get over my having to do that to clinch it because I was afraid." "My dear, my dear, thousands of men do that every day for the same reason, only they don't find themselves out; and if they did they wouldn't care. You're finding yourself out all the time, and killing yourself with caring." "Of course I care. Can't you see it proves that I never meant to go at all?"
It's a strong p'int o' law, I've heerd tell, not that I know much o' law, Goodness knows, nor ever want to, but never mind, it's a strong p'int when there's two witnesses to a thing, one to clinch what the t'other drives in; and you must have a show o' law to work on Alf. Barton, or I'm much mistaken!" Gilbert reflected a moment. "It can do no harm," he then said; "can you go with me, now?"
Since the great fight between old Darby and Cove Mills over Henry Clay, there had rarely been an election in which some members of the two families had not had a "clinch". They had to be thrown together sometimes "at meeting", and their children now and then met down on the river fishing, or at "the washing hole", as the deep place in the little stream below where the branches ran together was called; but they held themselves as much aloof from each other as their higher neighbors, the Hampdens and the Douwills, did on their plantations.
I don't mean ever to turn the boy that lives inside of me out-of-doors. If I ever do anything to make him so mad that he quits, I'll be finished dried up. That book, The Arabian Nights, has got a dead clinch on me. You know, when I run into Bakersfield, I like to have a browse in the bookstores.
"Augusta boys ain't goin' to have any man in their militia company that stands under six feet in his moccasins. Folks between the heads o' Bluestone an' Clinch so skeered they prob'ly won't stay to lay by their corn. Injuns signs up Sandy Creek has made some o' Moccasin an' Copper Creek folks come off. I 'low that's 'bout all." "Any signs of the Cherokees coming in?" "Some says they will.
The master knew the fellow was really frightened, for all his looks, and that he must have no time to rally. So he caught him suddenly by the collar, and, with one great pull, had him out over his desk and on the open floor. He gave him a sharp fling backwards and stood looking at him. The rough-and-tumble fighters all clinch, as everybody knows; and Abner Briggs, Junior, was one of that kind.
However, both hunters were urgent and seldom stopped even when heavy storms came upon them. At last, when the long journey had been safely made, and the settlement on the Clinch River had been gained, the spirits of the surveyors revived, although they were free to declare that it was the care and wisdom of Boone and his young companion which had brought them safely through the wilderness.
Then and there I tried to clinch the matter and keep that mood. In the main I think I succeeded, though I had many lapses. For the present my veins tingled with the draught. The wind humming into the mainsail, the ghostly wave-crests riding up out of the void, whispered a low thrilling chorus in praise of adventure.
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