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Updated: May 26, 2025
Two rows of six holes are dug in the ground, and in these they play with counters of camel-dung a mysterious game which I never can learn.
Adams knew that he could never learn to play politics in so masterly a fashion as this: his education and his nervous system equally forbade it, although he admired all the more the impersonal faculty of the political master who could thus efface himself and his temper in the game. He noticed that most of the greatest politicians in history had seemed to regard men as counters.
After his supper Stanley strolled into Zurich's The New York Store. Unknown to him, at that hour brown Awguan was being driven back to his little home corral, resaddled with Stanley's saddle and led away into the dark. Stanley exchanged greetings with the half-dozen customers who lingered at the counters, and demanded his mail.
You will be making me apologise by-and-by, and I don't want to do that." Buel laughed, and resumed his walk. "It's all right," he said; "Hodden's loss is my gain. I've got in with a jolly lot, who took the trouble last night to teach me the great American game at cards and counters." Miss Jessop sighed.
And as counters of imitation gold can be used only among a group of people who agree to accept them as gold, or among those who do not know the nature of gold, so universal historians and historians of culture, not answering humanity's essential question, serve as currency for some purposes of their own, only in universities and among the mass of readers who have a taste for what they call "serious reading."
Edward A. Filene of Boston in trying to have a successful department store found the women behind his counters got very tired standing in the street cars night and morning on the way home and took up with a will getting new rapid transit for Boston.
Some of them seemed quite dazed with fear and ran, dodging, from one sidewalk to the other, and as shells burst above them prayed aloud and crossed themselves. Others were busy behind the counters of their shops serving customers, and others stood in doorways holding in their hands their knitting. Frenchwomen of a certain class always knit.
"All I know is it's pretty good to be alive a day like this." "On a trip like this you bet it is," he added promptly. At one o'clock Billy turned off the road and drove into an open space among the trees. "Here's where we eat," he announced. "I thought it'd be better to have a lunch by ourselves than atop at one of these roadside dinner counters.
That evening in the log store, with some fifty or sixty Indians gathered around the stove on boxes or seated on the counters under the flickering light of the lanterns hanging from the roof, we spoke of God's love for men.
There was not a particle of silver. All was gold of antique date and of great variety French, Spanish, and German money, with a few English guineas, and some counters of which we had never seen specimens before. There were several very large and heavy coins, so worn that we could make nothing of their inscriptions. There was no American money.
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