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The slight hit made at his inexperience in investment had irritated him and made him feel less cock-sure of himself. A slightly offended manner might be the best weapon to rely upon. "I thought you might care to have the thing made clear to you," he continued indifferently. "I meant to explain. You may take the chance or leave it, as you like, of course.
Nothing could possibly be in worse taste than to fling that story in the judge's face." "I wish," said the Major, "that I could persuade you not to be quite so cock-sure about what you call her past. You ought to try and realise that you may possibly be mistaken." "That," said Meldon, "is practically what Oliver Cromwell said to the Scotch Presbyterian ministers.
Morrissy now regretted that he had given Bennington any grace at all, for it was not to be doubted that there was only a small majority of the men who had voted for a strike. And these were the young men; youth is always so hot-headed and cock-sure of itself. The older men, the men who had drawn their pay in the shops for twenty years or more, they were not so confident.
"There, you see," said young Spinner to the Boston girl, "she is flying the same flag at her masthead that we are." "Then she belongs to the same line as this boat?" "Oh, certainly," answered Mr. Cock-Sure Spinner. "Oh, look! look! look!" cried the enthusiastic Indianapolis girl who was going to take music in Germany.
"Keep an eye on me for signals, and remember that the whole fleet must be destroyed rather than one allowed to escape. I want to give the Tsar a nice little surprise. He seems to be getting a good deal too cock-sure about these old gas-bags of his, and it's time to give him a lesson in real aërial warfare."
Says all he wants is a word or two with you." "Bring him up at once!" commanded Spargo. He turned to Breton when the boy had gone. "There!" he said, laughing. "This is the man about the stick you see if it isn't." "You're such a cock-sure chap, Spargo," said Breton. "You're always going on a straight line." "Trying to, you mean," retorted Spargo.
Most thinking people acknowledge a good deal of perplexity over this question, while on most parallel ones they are generally cock-sure on whichever is the side of their personal interests.
Given trouble, that man will be a nuisance, because he is a hideously versatile American, to begin with, as cock-sure of himself as a man can be, and with all the racial disregard for human life to back him, through any demi-semi-professional generalship.
Rex Krane's mind was on the girl-wife he had left in the stone house on the bluff above the Missouri. Beverly was too cock-sure of himself and too light-hearted, too eager for an Indian fight. Jondo could counsel with Smith and Davis of the St. Louis trains, but only as a last resort would he dictate to them. So he turned to me.
Could never get out of my mind one sentence this poor, ignorant fellow uttered at the trial. 'Seems as if I could remember a man's face, a stranger's, that looked into mine that night, your Lordship, but I ain't exactly cock-sure! 'Ain't exactly cock-sure," repeated Captain Forsythe. "That's what caught me.
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