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Updated: May 2, 2025
Thus at the beginning the fundamental mistake was made in attempting to run an immense area at long range. With the approval of the Foreign Office the Company names an Administrator, the present one is Sir Drummond Chaplin, who, like the average Governor-General, has little to say. The Company has exercised a copper-riveted control and this rigid rule led to its undoing, as you will see later on.
I can't see very well." "Don't talk so much," ordered the physician. "You're lucky to be here at all. Thanks to that copper-riveted constitution of yours, you'll get well." But it seemed that the patient was fated to disappoint the predictions of his friend as well as those of the surgeons at Mercy Hospital.
"Great Caesar!" exploded Jack, realizing, now, what a narrow escape he had had from another disaster to their common interests. "So you be on your guard," Hal went on with his wise counsel. "No one at least, no one in your own crowd doubts your grit, or your willingness to clinch with Radwin and fight it out to a copper-riveted finish.
It is interesting, just as are historical novels, or the copper-riveted heroes of modern fiction, but it has no real relation with human life. In the last analysis the inherent untruth of the thing forces itself on him. He believes, but he does not apprehend; he acknowledges the fact, but he cannot grasp its human quality.
He wore a flopping old felt hat, a faded cotton shirt and an ancient pair of copper-riveted blue-jeans overalls tucked into a pair of cowboy's boots. A time-discoloured cartridge belt encircled his hips, supporting a holster from which protruded the shiny butt of an old-fashioned Colt's 45. But if the man was thus nondescript and shabby, his mount and its caparisons were magnificent.
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