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Davidson as being afraid," she remarked defensively. "Oh, but you don't understand! Will is physically brave and he was afraid I but I believed in him, always even when " She broke off suddenly and became prettily diffident. "I wonder why I am talking to you like this.
The Starvation Mountains had always been reputed rich in mineral and malevolent in their attitude toward man and beast. Even the Joshua trees stood afar off and lifted grotesque arms defensively against them. But Casey was not easily daunted, and eerie places held for him no meaning save the purely material one.
"All the girls wear dresses like this," replied Arethusa, defensively. "Then ," began Miss Eliza, with decision, but she snapped her lips together just like a trap and did not finish. Arethusa, with cheeks that flamed, put away the Green Dress, hung in the darkest corner of the high old walnut wardrobe in her room.
Each redoubt overlooked the storehouses close by the railroad, and each could aid the other defensively by catching in flank the attacking force of the other. Our troops at first endeavored to hold some ground outside the redoubts, but were soon driven inside, when the enemy made repeated assaults, but were always driven back.
"You have no idea," he apologised defensively, "how human a dog can be, or how fond of one you can become...." "What's this?" I asked, taken aback. He had thrust a check into my hand as he shook hands good-bye. "It's a check I've just endorsed over to you. Royalties on a recent text-book. Please do take it."
It seems that Pope, being desirous of printing his "Letters," and not knowing how to do, without imputation of vanity, what has in this country been done very rarely, contrived an appearance of compulsion, that, when he could complain that his "Letters" were surreptitiously published, he might decently and defensively publish them himself.
Then, with short sliding steps, he came across the parquet and sat down beside her on the Empire settee. Annette backed to the end of it and sat defensively on the edge, facing the strange being. He, crossing his thin legs, leaned with an arm extended along the back of the settee and his long, large-knuckled hand hanging limp.
And yet, whatever it may have been in its youth, it was in its age no longer a gay dash of color in the landscape. On the contrary, it fitted into the dust-brown and sage-green plain as defensively as a beetle in a dusty path.
It seemed almost as if she caught a glimmer of his thoughts, for she reined closer, and her teeth were digging into her lower lip. "Well, aren't you going to do anything?" she demanded desperately. "You're here, and I've told you I care. Are you going to leave me to bear Spikes' abuse always?" "You married him," Weary remarked mildly and a bit defensively.
Every well went down, or is going down, and every dollar we got right here on the street." "And all of them are dry, are they not?" McWade spoke up, defensively: "Sure. They were all wildcats of the wildest kind. But we don't deal in oil, we sell stock. Every issue we've put out has gone above par at some time or other, and that's playing the game square with our customers, ain't it?
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