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Updated: September 16, 2025
"It's morally that we're so shady!" said Arnold, admiring his own wit so much that he could not refrain from adding, "Not so bad, what?" The usual conversation at his stepmother's table was, as he would have said, so pestilentially high-brow that he seldom troubled himself to follow it enough to join in. Arnold was in the habit of dubbing "high-brow" anything bearing on aesthetics; and Mrs.
"And as for dubbing me a thief so readily" he paused, and shrugged his shoulders "you are a woman," he concluded, with an air suggesting that that fact was a conclusion to all things. "Fool!" she blazed. "Do you think to overcome me by quibbles? Do you think to dupe me with words and shrugs?" "My dear Cecile" he begged half-whimsically, "may I implore you to use some restraint?
But Solon Denney was not the man to betray it if a doubting heart beat within his breast. To the town that now lavished admiration upon him, dubbing him "Boss" without ulterior implications, he was confidence itself, and rife with prophecies of benefit to be derived by our public from the advent of Mrs. Aurelia Potts.
With him came that wit, versifier, and prince of roysterers, Thomas Morton, who, after Wollaston had moved on to Virginia, became "lord of misrule." Dubbing his seat Merrymount, drinking, carousing, and corrupting the Indians, affronting the decorous Separatists at Plymouth, Morton later became a serious menace to the peace of Massachusetts Bay.
He remembered now, for the first time since his journey north, that the Baron, in dubbing him Count Bunker, had encouraged him to take the title on the ground that it was a real dignity once borne by a famous personage; and in a flash he realized the pitfalls that awaited a solitary false step.
The large household lantern was cleaned out, after three years of uninterrupted accumulation, the operation yielding a conglomerate of candle-snuffs, candle-ends, remains of matches, lamp-black, and eleven ounces and a half of good grease invaluable as dubbing for skitty boots and ointment for cart-wheels. Everybody said that the mill residence had not been so thoroughly scoured for twenty years.
The landlord told all the people who were in the inn about the craze of his guest, the watching of the armour, and the dubbing ceremony he contemplated.
Life must be full of snap when you have to dash your will up against old Dame Fortune and wrest what you want out of her miserly clutches." "Yes," said John simply, "Jesus Christ was poor." "Look here, John. If you don't stop that nonsense, people will be dubbing you a crank." "I am ready!" he cried, and there was a strange, exulting ring in his voice. "They called him mad, you know."
Happily for the prestige of the House, phonographs are excluded. Certain skilled writers modestly dubbing themselves 'reporters' are admitted, and by them cosmos is conjured out of chaos.
He let the butt of the rod which bore a very old-fashioned brass winch, rest in the hollow of his arm, while he carefully extricated the hook at the end of his line from where it had fallen and caught hold of a stem of dwarf bracken, while to free it and the hair, feather, and dubbing which had transformed the said hook into what was supposed to be a big artificial fly, although it was not in the slightest degree like any insect that ever flew, required no little care.
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