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Updated: May 12, 2025
He seemed to have no time nor thought nor care for anything but hate and the expression of it. At noon, three little children came to him, and brought him water in a small brass bowl, and cooked-up vegetables wrapped in some kind of leaf. Brown let him have theirs, and bribed the frightened children to go and bring water for the men and himself.
She had not Zada's presence now to sustain her through the last act. But she sat it out. She was bitter against Cheever, and her thoughts dark. The burden of his infidelity was heavy enough for her to bear, but for him to subject her to such a confrontation was outrageous. She had no doubt that it was a cooked-up scheme.
I don't believe any one could fool any family." "But I did!" Garrison was staring blankly. "I did, Jimmie! Remember I had the cooked-up proofs. Remember that they had never seen the real nephew " "Oh, shucks! What's the odds? Blood's blood. You don't mean to say a man wouldn't know his own sister's child? Living in the house with him?
Phoebe, my kind tutoress Phoebe, was at the time gone out, perhaps in search of me, or their cooked-up story had not, it is probable, passed smoothly.
Often, from his high seat, he had listened indulgently to police court perjuries in cooked-up cases; but for the first time perjury was directed against him, and he no longer sat above the court, with the bailiffs, the Policemen's clubs, and the prison cells behind him. "Your Honor," he cried, "never have I heard such a pack of lies told by so bare-faced a liar !" Watson here sprang to his feet.
There, Mr McKeith, among your other cogitations on the subject of women, you may try to realise that the mission of a lady special correspondent is not all' she looked round for a metaphor 'Muscat grapes and pineapple. 'Or cooked-up information from heads of departments; or got-up shows of agricultural, mining and other industries.
But I certainly am criticizing the systems in which the free and fluid motivation of independent labor is to be replaced by cooked-up wage-scales and minimum salaries and government commissions and labor federations and all that poppycock. "What is not generally understood is that this whole industrial matter isn't a question of economics.
Even Bud was going to stay at the new house that night, in some cooked-up capacity or other, and all the men from the bunk-house were hiding out among the trees to see Margaret's father and mother and shake hands if the opportunity offered.
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