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In short, a wedge was being driven into the Turkish line, and the point of the wedge Doe's bombing party was to penetrate to the gun-position. Both my task and Doe's were dam-dangerous, said the Colonel, but Doe's was the damnedest. On the effectiveness of my flanking support might depend his life and the success of the raid. Did I see? "Yes, sir."
He wants the place for his nephew, Tom. We can't blame him. Blood is thicker than water, after all; but we'll beat him at his own game. Rely on me till death." "This man is either a true friend or else the damnedest villain alive," muttered Clayton, as he tore the letter into a thousand fragments. "In two weeks I will know all.
When Hill drove into town next afternoon coming to the deepo, where most of the boys was setting around waiting for the train to pull out he was laughing so he was most tumbling off the box. "I've got the damnedest biggest joke on this town," Hill said Hill had the habit of talking that off-hand way "that ever was got on a town since towns begun!"
They looked as astonished as himself, and almost equally hot and ashamed. Presently he ejaculated, "Well, I swan!" Then one of the men who had taken out the "bateau" and picked him up, found voice. "I'll be gosh-darned ef that ain't the damnedest," said he, slowly. "Why, so, I'd thought as how he was a-goin' right down on his prayer-handles to ye. That there kid is the apple of his eye."
"Doc," said Sim Gage, "I told you, I tried my damnedest, and I just couldn't. I says to myself, lady like she was, it wouldn't be right fer a man like me to marry her noways on earth." "And what did she say?" Sim Gage began to stammer painfully. "I don't know what she would say," said he. "I ain't never asked her none yet."
No one had ever seen Oscar Pontefract drunk, but as time went on the honourable body of those who had ever seen him perfectly sober diminished rapidly. "Haven't seen you for ten days. Damnedest ten days I ever lived through," he continued, helping himself to whisky and soda, "and most infernal ten nights, too.
Through the sheets of rain all peered eagerly. "She seems to be pretty well loaded," reported the man beside Stringer, "but I can't make her out very well." "Are we doing our damnedest?" inquired Rogers. "We are, sir," reported the engineer; "she hasn't got another oat in her!" Rogers muttered something beneath his breath, and sat there glaring ahead at the boat ever gaining upon her pursuer.
They had come prepared to camp for the night at the print shop, going through special incantations for the occasion, but now they were whooping it up around the campfire. I was dragged into the dance and went careening around with old warriors and young bucks, the squaws laughing at my mistakes. As a farewell editorial I quoted the epitaph once engraved on a tombstone: "He done his damnedest.
"Beating a bad egg would be a waste of time I wouldn't be guilty of," said I amusedly. "But I hope to live to see the good nut grow into a fine tree." "Do your damnedest excuse me, parson!" said he contritely. "I mean, don't stop for a little thing like me!" Laurence leaned forward. "Man," said he, impressively, "he won't have to!
I hurdled the sea-wall like an antelope, and before they got eyes on me I was into my bath-house. "When I'd got dressed, I sneaked up to the Galvez for a drink. In the bar were a lot of stockmen, and they asked me where I'd been. I told 'em I'd been nursing a sick lodge member, and they said: "'Too bad! You missed the damnedest fight since Custer was licked.
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