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"Ah! that explains Judge MacFarlane's return. Now what I am going to tell you is the deadest of secrets. It came to me from one of the Overland officials, and I'm not supposed to gossip. Did you know the Overland Short Line had passed under Plantagould domination?" "I know they elected a Plantagould directory at the annual meeting." "Exactly.
Such was Sir Geoffrey, who might have passed to his grave without further distinction than a brass-plate in the chancel, had he not lived in times which forced the most inactive spirits into exertion, as a tempest influences the sluggish waters of the deadest mere.
I don't mean to say that I know, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a door-nail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for.
He knows that the general public is as uncritical of an audience as of a play or of acting, so he fills his house as well as he can with the very deadest of deadheads; "orders" are distributed lavishly to people whose presence in the theatre is actually a favour to the management. It is said that these playgoers are peculiarly severe in their judgments and remarkably apathetic!
The sudden sound of a light single knock at the street door sets his nerves ajar; the quiet click of the lock a pause of deadest silence and then the light tread of an uncertain foot upon the stairs make him tremble; yet he knows not why does not even ask himself the reason.
Around a grove of quaking-aspens, eternally shivering in the deadest of calms, their trail led through the long grass that carpeted the bottom, and suddenly ended in a strip of gravelly land that ran out from the bed of the creek. I could follow it no farther. If there was other mark of their passing, it was hidden from me.
Would it not be almost a duty to preserve this house like Carlyle's and put up a tablet, and show it? "Specimen of mid-Victorian abode entrance, one shilling, with catalogue." After all, it was the completest thing, and perhaps the deadest in the London of to-day.
The second letter was addressed to his sister, but he trusted to luck that Constance would see it. It ran 'DEAR NAN: Who in thunder is Constance Wilder? She wants us to stop and make a visit in Valedolmo. I wouldn't step into that infernal town, not if the king himself invited me it's the deadest hole on the face of the earth. You can stay if you like and I'll go on through the Dolomites alone.
"Mifflin!" jeered Jimmie. "Mifflin! You can be mighty good and glad it isn't. I don't know where you got your idea of Mifflin, Mary Rose, for it's about the deadest one-horse town I ever ran across. And the people. Huh! A collection of boneheads." "Why, Jimmie Bronson!" gasped Mary Rose. "Mifflin's the friendliest town " "Friendly!" Jimmie elevated his nose at the word.
The most charitable of Sherman's opponents looked upon him as an honest but visionary enthusiast who would fail in his policy and be "the deadest man politically" in the country. Others deemed resumption possible only by driving to the wall a majority of active business men.
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