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Updated: June 7, 2025
As an old preacher has it, 'The presence of a saint hinders the devil of elbow-room for doing his tricks. The old legend told us that the fire-darting Apollo shot his radiant arrows against the pythons and 'dragons of the slime. The sons of light have the same office by their light of life to make the darkness aware of itself, and ashamed of itself; and to change it into light.
Later in the same year he writes that his plans and propositions have been approved and recommended to be carried out, and he expects to have the execution of them. "If they will provide the ways and means," says he, "and give me elbow-room, I see my way as plainly as mending the brig at the auld burn."
There'll be elbow-room in the sea at any rate. There's a corner here where we can undress. Come along! O-o-h! There's some one else inside!" "We're just ready! You can come in if you like!" proclaimed a voice, as two girls in navy bathing costumes and rubber caps issued from behind a rock, and running swiftly down the sand plunged into the water.
As a height o'ertops a hollow, so Rincon Hill looked down upon South Park. There was more elbow-room on the breezy height; not that the height was so high or so broad, but it was breezy; and there was room for the breeze to blow over gardens that spread about the detached houses their wealth of color and perfume. How are the mighty fallen! The Hill, of course, had the farthest to fall.
"Freedom, freedom," was his idea; "lots of elbow-room room to turn about in without with your leave or by your leave to father or anyone! Your health!" A week later the street outside Lorentz D. Uthoug's house in Ringeby was densely crowded with people, all gazing up at the long rows of lighted windows. There was feasting to-night in the great man's house.
There is old Gibbon, our corner-stone. He hasn't much elbow-room now. Again he laughed. The laugh troubled her; she preferred him to be grave. 'And some more books are coming to-day? she said. 'Yes, this afternoon. 'Mr. Egremont, may I come and help to put up a few to-morrow morning? Again her tongue uttered words in defiance of herself. She could not believe it when the words were spoken.
Winthrop pausing, as was his wont, for the crowd to move out. Although one of the busiest men I ever met, he never seemed in a hurry. Besides, he had an extreme dislike to be jostled by a hurrying crowd. When he saw the aisles getting empty he left the pew. Mrs. La Grande apparently, like ourselves, liked plenty of elbow-room; for she only left her pew a few steps in advance of us. Mr.
Mangan, meantime, waited, with a permissive smile, for the moment to make his "little girl" known to the young ladies from Mount Music, and to their cousin, young Larry Coppinger. It may be permissible to introduce a meet of hounds at or about the end of a chapter, but I feel sure that the ensuing run must be given elbow-room.
But their holy prosperity did not make them happy, or enable them to be on comfortable terms with the Dutch language; they could not get elbow-room, or feel that they were doing themselves justice; and as the rumors of a fertile wilderness overseas came to their ears, they began to contemplate the expediency of betaking themselves thither.
That's adaptation to environment with a vengeance and grit." "There's a woman, too, Bill. And see she's carrying a baby!" Hazel pointed excitedly. "Oh, Bill!" "Let's go over." He stirred up his horse. "What did I tell you about folk that hanker for lots of elbow-room? They're coming." The man halted his strangely assorted team to watch them come.
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