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Updated: June 16, 2025
He pulled off his boots and stockings, and ran on, conning his footprints and the driblets of sand split ahead from his bare toes. By-and-by he came to the edge of the surf.
Bogus, 'For Heaven's sake, let's have every creature we can think of, and have 'em all over with at once. For pity's sake, let's have no driblets left that we shall have to be inviting to dinner or to tea. No matter whether they can come or not, only send them the invitation, and our part is done; and, thank Heaven! we shall be free for a year."
As for the poor nobility of France, they escape with five hundred! Some were of opinion that it was pleasanter to give en masse, in one big sum, than to give in driblets; others thought it more satisfactory to hand one's offering personally to the different servants; but we all, with one voice, voted the officious beadle an imposition.
This was late on in the night after the final decision to go back, and since then I had been scouting miles behind the main body of our rear-guard, so as to make sure that the Duke's horse were not on our track. I had slept by driblets as opportunity offered.
It's getting some food for Dara. And driblets won't help. What's needed is in thousands of tons, or tens of thousands." Then he said; "Overdrive coming, Murgatroyd! Hold fast!" The universe vanished. The customary unpleasant sensations accompanied the change. Murgatroyd burped. A large part of the firmament was blotted out by the blindingly bright half-disk of Weald, as it shone in the sunshine.
Money came in by mere driblets. 'Alexander' provided 300l., and 'Dixon, in England, twice sends a humble ten pounds. Charles transferred his quarters to the Netherlands, residing chiefly at Ghent, where he was known as the Chevalier William Johnson. The English Government remained unenlightened.
At the threshold, as I ardently enter, the flaming sword of regulation is waving. Between me and the inviting shelves are fences of woven iron; the bibliographic Cerberus is at his sentryship; when I want a full draught, I must be content with driblets; and the impatient messengers are sworn to bring me only a single volume at a time.
In public as in private business it is much more economic to look payments in the face and make them with our eyes open than to let the money slip away in driblets. Moreover, modern politicians think, in opposition to Adam Smith, that it has a good moral effect on the body politic to be made to feel exactly what taxes they pay, so that they cannot help knowing whenever taxation is increased.
Whether a reader would be thanked for reproducing one of Horace Greeley's lectures as he delivered it is a question that cannot detain us here; but the teaching that he ought to do so, I think, would please Mr. Greeley. The first driblets of professional tourists and summer boarders who arrived among the Adirondack Mountains a few years ago found Old Phelps the chief and best guide of the region.
Do you think that, because they have now enlisted through fear, they will ever change their natures?" I asked him "if soap would wash the black spots from a leopard's skin?" but I explained that I could strip the skin at once off the leopard, and should quickly change their natures. Day after day passed, and the ammunition was only returned in driblets, after constant and most urgent demands.
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