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Updated: May 7, 2025
"Am I to be flouted thus by a piece of pink-and-whiteness just escaped from the nursery pap-spoon?" "Out of the mouths of babes " insinuated Alicia. The Author grinned. And his grin is redeeming. "Sweet-and near-twenty," he explained. "I am not exactly all-to-myselfish, but I demand plenty of elbow-room in my existence.
And, having thus procured both sunlight and elbow-room, those enterprising islanders assumed a virtuous air and pushed the high cries as our friend Gaston would say if any of their neighbors ever showed the slightest symptom of following their very successful example. Have you ever heard of such an island?
Instead of allowing itself to be intimidated by the Executive power with the perspective of fresh disturbances, the party of Order should rather have allowed a little elbow-room to the class struggle, in order to secure the dependence of the Executive upon itself. But it did not feel itself equal to the task of playing with fire.
We have now seen the nature of that freedom of the will which the immortal Edwards has exerted all his powers to recommend to the Christian world! “Egregious liberty!” exclaimed Calvin. “It merely allows us elbow-room,” says Leibnitz. “It seems, after all, to leave us mere machines,” says Dick. “It is trifling to speak of such a thing,” says the younger Edwards, in relation to the will. “Why, surely, this cannot be what the great President Edwards meant by the freedom of the will,” says Dr.
'I ax pardon, but if you'd gie me just a bit of elbow-room for a minute like, I'd hold my babby up, so that he might see daddy's ship, and happen, my master might see him. He's four months old last Tuesday se'nnight, and his feyther's never clapt eyne on him yet, and he wi' a tooth through, an another just breaking, bless him!
"It blows fresh," cried Griffith, who was the first to speak in that moment of doubt and anxiety; "but it is no more than a capful of wind after all. Give us elbow-room, and the right canvas, Mr. Pilot, and I'll handle the ship like a gentleman's yacht, in this breeze." "Will she stay, think ye, under this sail?" said the low voice of the stranger.
'Ay, so be Easter, the smith retorted gruffly, as a puny atomy of a man with a stick and lanthorn was pushed with difficulty to the front. 'But so being you are here, supposing you put Joe Hincks a foot or two back, and let the gentleman have elbow-room. There was a laugh at this, for Joe Hincks was a giant a little taller than the smith. None the less, the hint had the desired effect.
Why, I can remember the time when this meadow was like a fair everybody a-shoving and a-jostling one another for elbow-room; and look at it now! It's a desert. That's what it is, a desert. What's the good of us wasting of our time here, I sez. That's what I sez. "And they're artful, too, mind yer," he continued.
Their experience with other settlers had taught them caution; it soon became clear that they were as eager to avoid us as we were to shun them, and by common consent we gave each other ample elbow-room. But the Indians were all around us, and every settler had a collection of hair-raising tales to tell of them.
"Not much elbow-room here!" he said lightly. He was very anxious to be equal to the occasion. She gazed at him under her emphasized eyebrows. He noticed that there were little touches of red on her delightful nostrils. "No," she answered with direct simplicity. "Suppose we try somewhere else?"
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