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So in his best Oxford manner a manner ornate, at that period, and quite crushingly superior he raised his shoulders, smiled faintly, resignedly, and disposed himself in an easier attitude, saying: "Better wait, perhaps, my dear Damaris. I would sooner risk losing those precious letters than acquire a possible escort for you and for myself down to the river and across the ferry."
The very bravest army must succumb if led against a crushingly superior force under most unfavourable conditions. A military investigation of the situation shows that a plan of campaign, such as would be required here on the inner line, presents, under the modern system of "mass" armies, tremendous difficulties, and has to cope with strategic conditions of the most unfavourable kind.
"You mean that my father should try to win over Mr. Edward Cossey. Unfortunately, to be frank, he dislikes him, and my father is not a man to keep his dislikes to himself." "People generally do dislike those to whom they are crushingly indebted; your father dislikes Mr. Cossey because his name is Cossey, and for no other reason.
It was the shock of being patronisingly addressed as 'my good woman' by a curate, who was disputing with her where the stove should be placed in a parish concert hall that led to the sudden restoration of her memory. 'I think you forget who you are speaking to, she observed crushingly, which was rather unduly severe, considering she had only just remembered it herself."
There are some 61,000 free public elementary schools with over 10,000,000 pupils, and over 600 private elementary schools, with 42,000 pupils who pay fees. Germany is a land of civil service; to enter which a certificate from a secondary school is necessary. Some authorities maintain that the only way to prevent being flooded with candidates is to make the examinations crushingly severe.
"Oh, you you were born to be married," he said crushingly. "And so are you," I retorted. "I? I tie myself to the stay-strings of a flip of a thing in petticoats, whom I should have to swear to love, honour and obey ?" "My good fellow," I interrupted, "it is the woman who swears obedience." "And the man practises it. Ho! Ho! Ho!"
It was as though he understood this poor sister, whom the merciful called erring, and the merciless wicked, but of whom the just could only say: she is what we in her place must have become. She was an atom of the world of suffering by which his heart was being wrung. She was one upon whom the Wrong fell crushingly, and she was helpless to resist it.
Joe stepped forward, quickly, efficiently. His hands were now knitted together in a huge double fist. He brought them upward, crushingly, into his opponent's face, with all the force he could achieve, and felt bone and cartilage crush.
'I have never heard you preach it. You lowered your voice when you denounced the Trinity to me, lest the Christians should hear. 'We have to preach silently, by our example. Merely by keeping our own religion we convert the world. 'But who keeps it? Dispersion among Sunday-keeping peoples makes our very Sabbath an economic impossibility. 'I have not found it so, said Sir Asher crushingly.
The bank we were following offered a prospect even more gloomy a dense, dark mass, amid which, sometimes, mysterious half-tones told of a dock gate, or sudden high lights leapt flaring to the eye. Then, out of the mystery ahead, a green light grew and crept down upon us. A giant shape loomed up, and frowned crushingly upon the little craft. A blaze of light, the jangle of a bell, and it was past.
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