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"I admire you for being able to make time serve you instead of serving time like the rest of us," Mrs. Frostwinch said. "I shouldn't hear another call you a time server without taking up the cudgels to defend you," responded Edith. Mrs. Frostwinch smiled in reply to this. Then she turned again to Helen. "To tell the truth, Mrs.
If women could forgive her betrayer; if women could say, as presently they said, that she did not know her luck, men were still more indifferent. The attitude of the world to her sufferings horrified Sabina. She had none to love her none, at least, to show his love by assaulting and injuring her enemy. Only a certain number even took up the cudgels for her in speech.
But all the fire was taken out of our combat, by the presence of so unwonted a Spectator, and after a brief lapse we dropped cudgels, and stood staring and blushing, quite dashed and confused.
In citing of popish errors, he cuts them with arguments, not cudgels them with barren invectives; and labours more to shew the truth of his cause than the spleen. His sermon is limited by the method, not the hourglass; and his devotion goes along with him out of the pulpit.
Pelle kept behind him, and thus succeeded in getting through the thickest crowds, where policemen and rangers were stationed with thick cudgels. Their eyes and ears were on the watch, but they did not interfere in anything. It was said that they had handcuffs in their pockets. Pelle had reached the road in his despairing search.
She was in a state of wild revolt, for instance, as to Johnny Rosenfeld, and more remotely but not less deeply concerned over Grace Irving. Soon she was to learn of Tillie's predicament, and to take up the cudgels valiantly for her. But her revolt was to be for herself too. On the day after her failure to keep her appointment with Wilson she had her half-holiday.
British capitalists, on the other hand, determined to maintain what they hold, forgetful of how it had been obtained, were thus compelled to take up the cudgels for their own sakes; and here, as in Germany, the workers are the tools used to save their fortunes and conserve their rights." "The Voice of Labour," October, 1914.
And when the ridicule became too strong, or the abuse too sharp, men would take up the cudgels for her, and fight her battles; a little too openly, perhaps, as they would do it under her eyes, and in her hearing, and would tell her what they had done, mistaking on such occasions her good humour for sympathy.
If, as you think, Beaufort is hidden in Paris, it is certain he will lose no time." Paolo nodded. "I will get the men disguises at once. They had better be different; Macpherson can be dressed as a soldier, Nicholl as a burgher, and Sandy Grahame and Hunter as rough mechanics. They, of course, could not carry swords, but might take heavy cudgels.
Harry, who was always ready to take up the cudgels in favour of his native land, answered, "Why, even you in England have got nettles, and poisonous berries too, and, I am sure, have not got one-tenth part of the fruits and plants which this country can produce.
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