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And then, when she gets too cocky, when she begins to measure her wits and brain and strength against that of men, and finds herself superior, he just taps her smartly on the head and shins, so that she stumbles, falls, and rolls down a few miles on the road she has traveled so painfully. He does it just as a gentle reminder to her that she's only a woman, after all.
"Look here, Blacksmith, we'll remember this, and as soon as we're strong enough we'll punch his head." "Agreed. He's been growing as cocky as a bantam since we've been ill. We must take him down." "Why, what for?" I cried. "Making game of your betters. Sarce, as Tom Jecks calls it."
He's a cocky old guy, as you know, isn't afraid of any single thing on earth and it galls him to have me go along to play nursemaid. Well, he can just be sore. I'm not going to leave his side." He paused and then said slowly: "Jimmy, I don't like this. I don't like it a damn bit.
"I am glad you think it funny," I said. "But it is funny," she persisted. "Don't say you have lost your sense of humour, Paul; it was the one real thing you possessed. You were so cocky you don't know how cocky you were! Everybody was a fool but Vane; nobody else but he appreciated you at your true worth.
"I tell you what you can do!" "What?" "Write and tell Slossons that you don't wish them to act for you any more, and you'll go to another firm of solicitors. That would bring 'em to their senses." "Can't! They're in the will. He settled that. That's why they're so cocky."
So Henny-penny and Cocky-locky went to tell-the king the sky was falling. They went along, and they went along, and they went along, till they met Ducky-daddles. "Where are you going to, Henny-penny and Cocky- locky?" says Ducky-daddles. "Oh! we're going to tell the king the sky's a-falling," said Henny-penny and Cocky-locky. "May I come with you?" says Ducky-daddles.
He looked as if he might shin up the waterfall on the spot. But the guide would not hear of going up, even if there had been any possible method of scaling that sheer cliff, and we had to get back to our party before night. "They might stay if we told them," I suggested. But Terry stopped in his tracks. "Look here, fellows," he said. "This is our find. Let's not tell those cocky old professors.
Up at last in the stuffy, unfriendly, steam-smelling hotel bedroom Emma McChesney prepared to make herself comfortable. A cocky bell-boy switched on the lights, adjusted a shade, straightened a curtain. Mrs. McChesney reached for her pocket-book. "Just open that window, will you?" "Pretty cold," remonstrated the bell-boy. "Beginning to snow, too." "Can't help it. I'll shut it in a minute.
A middle aged man traveling alone on a train to nowhere, Nongkai, and then to the sister city of Vientiene, could hardly be exempt of internal lonely burnings any more than he could feel stable when twirling around in this chase within the self no matter how insouciant or cocky he seemed when reflected from others in a figurative mirror or himself in the literal one.
Won't you be living too high? USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA. What's this, you barnyard cockerel; are you trying to joke with me, man? I'm a mighty cocky lady myself! PODKHALYÚZIN. But why should I give you money? I'd do it if there were any occasion for it. USTÍNYA NAÚMOVNA. Whether for something or for nothing, give it here you promised it yourself! PODKHALYÚZIN. What if I did promise!
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