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Yet the number of people who rush into print with their opinions on the most complex Arabian affairs would astonish even the Arabs if they permitted themselves to show surprise at anything. These opinions differ widely, but have one attribute in common their emphatic "cock-sureness."
He had told them, with a good deal of amusement, of his late talk with the German. Hal Hastings didn't say a word, but his eyes twinkled. "I wouldn't have minded," laughed Jack, "but it was the Professor's cock-sureness that I was to be Germany's oyster." "Is he an old man?" asked Hal. "Not very," Jack answered. "Perhaps not old enough to know better.
So I rushed on, when I had got into that training school scrape, with all the cock-sureness of the fool that I was! ... I am certain one ought to be allowed to undo what one had done so ignorantly!
"It's lucky for you sexton pupils there was one among you could reply; for, with all your cock-sureness, you were about to lose the game." And such peals of laughter as went up from the children of both schools and from the grown folk as well, the two schoolmasters had never heard. Some of the youngsters had to stand up to have their laugh out, while others doubled in their seats, and shrieked.
It's bad enough for you to be supporting a big, hungry medical student; but I swear you sha'n't feed his wife, too. I can't be indebted, even to you!" he ended, with the laughing cock-sureness of high-minded youth. "Indebted? Oh, David!" she said.
The same disrespect to their elders, the same cock-sureness, and the same careless indifference concerning the effect which their actions might have upon other people these were natural and nothing but years and the hard knocks of experience could bring about a change.
"I don't want to see you get licked," denied Craig irritably. "All I ask is that you shelve some of your cock-sureness. I'm not so dead-broke that I must swallow all of it. I've warned you that he is a strong man. He used to be one of the best college athletes in America." "College!" exploded Mallow. "What the devil does a college athlete know about a dock-fight?" "Ever see a game of football?"
You remember the story that she my great-grandmother once came across Lady Hamilton in Romney's studio, and Emma Hamilton told Romney afterwards that at last he'd found a sitter handsomer than herself. It's a winner. You inherit her eyes, Douglas, and her colour. What's it worth?" "Twenty thousand perhaps." Douglas's voice had the cock-sureness that goes with new knowledge.
They seemed rather puzzled in spite of the cock-sureness of the first individual. The pasting was not a work of art, but it was effective. The corner of the box was plastered over with sheets of white paper, in which there was no break.
Tom Burton rose and stalked very stiffly, though no longer with his old time cock-sureness, for the last time out of the National Union Club, and spent the afternoon in the rear room of a saloon further east.
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