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Updated: June 27, 2025
"All ther same, ther Second should have savvied enough not to have slung you hoff ther look-hout." He nodded his head, slowly, keeping his gaze fixed on my face. "How do you mean?" I asked, puzzled; yet with a vague sense that the man understood more, perhaps, than I had hitherto thought. "I mean what's ther Second so blessed cocksure about?"
"Oh, I know that!" was the cocksure reply as they alighted in Canal Street to take an up-town mule-car. Could Madame and Flora have overheard, how they would have smiled to each other.
All I want to convey to you is that I am only a plain, ordinary God-fearing, law-abiding Englishman, and that when young Randall Holmes brought down from Oxford all sorts of highfalutin theories about everything, not only in God's Universe, but in the super-Universe that wasn't God's, and of every one of which he was cocksure, I found my homely self very considerably out of it.
"Haven't we got theologians of our own? What have the Germans ever done but set up one mare's nest after another, for us to set right? They've no sooner launched some cocksure theory or other than they have to give it up. I don't read German," said the Archdeacon, hastily, "but that's what I understand from the Church papers." Silence a moment.
A.C. Headlam, now Regius Professor of Divinity, Dr. Hensley Henson earned the nickname of Coxley Cocksure.
The figure was draped, both insecurely and insufficiently, in what looked like the remains of a brown flannel dressing-gown; an emptied cup of cocoa stood on the floor beside it, and the creature had his big grey head cocked at a particular angle of inquiry or attention which amid all that gathering gloom and mystery struck one as comic if not cocksure.
"You've the cocksure remedy of one who has never tried." He strangled a retort. "Try to comprehend my feelings," she pursued. "If you were in love with me, I shouldn't ask it. But you're not in love with me. Frankly now, are you?" "I am your husband." "And I'm your wife. Does that prove a love affair? No, no.
Four years previous to the case of the Veuve Lacoste that same Orfila came into the trial of Mme Lafarge with the first use in medical jurisprudence of the Marsh test, and based on the experiment a cocksure opinion which had much to do with the condemnation of that unfortunate woman.
One thing, though, Harding certainly does believe in, judging by a sermon I once heard him preach." "And that is?" "Manicheism. Chichester, you say, was a saint?" "He was, if a man can be a saint who has a certain amiable weakness of character." "And now? You think he would be a difficult customer to tackle now?" "Harding finds him so." "And Harding was an overwhelming chap, cocksure of himself.
Crow said to that. But he began to fidget which was a sign that he was worried. And when Jimmy Rabbit appeared again Mr. Crow was not quite so cocksure when he asked if the race wasn't over. "It would be," Jimmy Rabbit answered, "but the trouble is, Grumpy Weasel won't stop running!" "Ha!" said Mr. Crow hoarsely. But Peter Mink said, "Ha, ha!"
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