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Well, he goes stumbling and dragging himself like up the gully, and they, cocksure of getting him, closing up and shooting quicker and quicker, when just as he jumps down the Black Gully steps a bullet did hit him in the shoulder under the right arm, and staggers him in good earnest.
He was as secular, as cocksure, as irritating as ever, when Ancrum probed him on the subject of the Hall of Science or the various Secularist publications which he supported. 'Do you call yourself an atheist now, David? said Ancrum one day, in that cheerful, half-ironic tone which the young bookseller resented. 'I don't call myself anything, said David, stoutly.
We listened to him like children drinking in travellers' tales. He bluffed us with his cocksure way of talking about things, and by addressing us in a mysterious jargon which we regarded as a proof of his intimacy with the barrack-room, the engine-room, the racecourse, and the lives of generals, Hindus, artists, and East-enders. That was Mr. Kipling's trick.
"You're mighty cocksure," retorted Grady. "It's easy to be wise after it's all over." "Well, I'm not going to argue with you," said Godfrey. "I admit it was a good disguise, and a clever idea but, just the same, you ought to have seen through it. That's your business." Grady mopped his face. "Oh, of course!" he sneered. "I ought to have seen through it!
"And it is a goodish distance, so if you would rather not come, pray do not trouble." "No, Peregrine." "Heavens, girl!" I cried. "Cannot you say more than 'yes and no, Peregrine'?" "Aye, I could!" she nodded. "I could say you are a fool and a sight too cocksure and, oh, a lot more but I won't!" with which she rose and left me.
"We all know our first aid." "We know it," said Don. "But can we do it? That's what counts." "It's like riding a bicycle," Ritter argued. "You never forget." Don had not expected anything like this. He didn't want the patrol to be cocksure he wanted it to work. But there would be small chance of work if each scout was going to think that practice was unnecessary.
Theological though the subject is, the oratorio is as much a hymn to joy as the Ninth symphony; and there is in it far more of genuine joy, of sheer delight in living. Of the sense of sin the most cowardly illusion ever invented by a degenerate people there is no sign; where Bach would have been abased in the dust, Handel is bright, shining, confident, cocksure that all is right with the world.
"And, because I've lived longer in this world and fought harder for what I've got than you'll ever have to fight, I wanted to put about six feet of hot iron into your soul. You're a little bit too cocksure, Matt. I tell you it's a mistake to hold your business competitor cheap.
It may, you know, need driving out with whips and scorpions. It might, perhaps, work in. Lawford sat cold and still. 'It's no good, no good, he said, 'I don't understand; I can't follow you. I was always stupid, always bigoted and cocksure. These things have never seemed anything but old women's tales to me. And now I must pay for it. And this Nicholas Sabathier; you say he was a blackguard?
The night was very clear; a dark blue space, sparkling with dew and starlight, in which black things stood very still. I thought I could see a kind of motion ahead of me. I was strangely cocksure of everything that night. I was circumventing Kurtz as though it had been a boyish game. "I came upon him, and, if he had not heard me coming, I would have fallen over him, too, but he got up in time.
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