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It's silly of him to stay in love with the same person always, isn't it? I couldn't be so monotonous if I tried." "In fact if he cared less about you, you would think more of him," remarked Mrs. Ralston, with a quite unusual touch of severity. Netta Ermsted laughed again, her light, heartless laugh. "How crushingly absolute! But it is the literal truth. I certainly should.
These means can only be found in the spiritual domain. Rome conquered the world with inferior forces; Frederick the Great with inferior forces withstood the allied armies of Europe. Recent history shows us the victory of the numerically weaker Japanese army over a crushingly superior opponent. We cannot count on seeing a great commander at our head; a second Frederick the Great will hardly appear.
The burden of my loneliness weighed down upon me so crushingly that I cannot but consider my senses must have been somewhat dulled by suffering, for had they been active to their old accustomed height, I am persuaded my heart must have broken and that I should have died of grief.
Franklin bowed his head between his hands and half groaned over the pain which he had cost. Then slowly and crushingly his own hurt came home to him. Every fibre of his being, which had been exultingly crying out in triumph at the finding of this missing friend every fibre so keenly strung now snapped and sprang back at rag ends.
The gunners dropped their lanyards with an oath, trained machines that they were. It was a drunken German who brought a heavy sword-hilt down on the young officer's head with: "You damned traitor!" A gleam of gun and bayonet leaped in the misty light in front, from shoulder to breast a rock wall, tipped with steel swept crushingly forward over the trenches over the breastworks.
Bill said that he had spent his life plowing the seas, but that all the fault I had was being a landsman. I admitted that I had farmed some near Herkimer. "And," sneered Mr. Wisner crushingly, "how long does it take a man to clear and grub out and subdue enough land in Herkimer County to make a living on? Ten years! Twenty years! Thirty years!
'It is a unanimous vote, said Geoffrey, crushingly, bringing down his fist as an imaginary gavel with incredible force and dignity. 'Dr. and Mrs. Winship, will you oblige the Chair by acting as a special Reception Committee? 'Certainly, responded the doctor, smilingly. 'Will the Chair kindly outline the general policy of the committee? 'Hm-m-m! Yes, certainly of course.
So she said, with a certain lofty simplicity, that there were SOME THINGS which she really did not care to talk about, and Larry and her father left her that night with the firm conviction that the rascal Starbuck had tried to tempt her to fly with him and his riches, and had been crushingly foiled.
Dave followed him right up with vim. Yet, for the first forty seconds of the round no real damage was done on either side. Then: Bump! "O-o-oh!" That cry came simultaneously from Treadwell and from all the spectators. Dave's right fist had landed crushingly on the top classman's left eye, almost instantly closing that organ.
As the banks were then founded and owned by men who were themselves traders or landholders, this power was crushingly used against competitors. Armed with the strong power of law, the banks overawed the mercantile world, thrived on the industry, misfortune or ruin of others, and swayed politics and elections. The bank men loaned money to themselves at an absurdly low rate of interest.
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