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When Theodosia was ten years old, Mary Wollstonecraft's eloquent little book, "A Vindication of the Eights of Woman," fell into Burr's hands. He was so powerfully struck by it that he sat up nearly all night reading it. He showed it to all his friends.
"Wait 'till yuh burn Lazy Eights on wriggling, blatting calves for two or three hours at a stretch before yuh talk about the joys uh branding." Park rubbed eloquently his aching biceps. At dusk Thurston crept into his blankets, feeling that he would like the night to be at least thirty six hours long.
"About as funny as being pestered by a mosquito buzzing under your nose when you're playing a fish that keeps cuttin' figure eights in a hole the size uh that one there." "I'll go up and take a look," Good Indian offered carelessly. "Well, I wish you would. I can't keep my mind on m' fishing just wondering what the deuce he's after. And say!
His school life, his first summer term at Oxford, the Cherwell with the shadows of the branches overhead dappling the water, the strenuous week of the Eights, his climbs with Linforth, and, above all, London in June, a London bright with lilac and sunshine and the fair faces of women, crowded in upon his memory.
While at Oxford he ran daily, with some friends, during one "eights week" a cynical comic paper called "The Rattle," to boost some theories he held, and which he wished to enforce, and also to "score" a few of the dons to whom he objected.
So I was left to deplore with Marjorie Fleming to the end of my days the inherent viciousness of sevens and eights, as "more than human nature can endure." It is one of the ironies of life that I should have had to take up work into which the study of statistics enters largely. But the powers that set me the task provided a fitter back than mine for that burden.
But the Captain, after a few eights on the ice, intimated that for the rest no sport was true sport save the sport of ski-running. He allowed it to be understood that luges were for infants. He had brought his skis, and these instruments of locomotion, some six feet in length, made a sensation among the inexperienced.
"But," he allowed, "I saw a good many men whom I know, outside the Hall here, just now, and they seemed to have made up their minds." "To die for me? To-morrow?" "To-morrow. After the Eights, I suppose; at the same time as the Duke. It wouldn't do to leave the races undecided." "Of COURSE not. But the poor dears! It is too touching! I have done nothing, nothing to deserve it."
They laugh, but they laugh extinguishingly, and not a bit to spread a general conflagration and illumination. The case appeared hopeless to Captain Con, bearing an eye on Philip. He surveyed his inanimate eights right and left, and folded his combative ardour around him, as the soldier's martial cloak when he takes his rest on the field. Mrs.
These modes are several. Thus, if you see three eights in one column, you say, 'Three times eight are twenty-four, and then you try to bring in the other numbers. Thus you think in a minute that three from the eight will make the seven a ten, and then there will be five more to add, which will make fifteen.
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