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It made a big bundle when she had them together, and she was dubious if she ought to try to carry them all; but Bud, whom she consulted on the subject, said, loftily, it "wasn't a flea-bite for the Kid; he could carry anything on a horse."
He should have a cleaner kennel. The official answer is that the tourist-traffic is a flea-bite compared with the cotton industry. Even so, land in Cairo city must be too valuable to be used for cotton growing. It might just as well be paved or swept.
He must not be unreasonable, he said; pride was no doubt an estimable weakness, but it might be carried too far; men must act upon realities not fancies; he must learn to have an eye to the main chance, and eschew heroics: what was life without money! It was not as if he gave it grudgingly, for he made him heartily welcome. The property was in truth but a flea-bite to him!
"The berth; middle berth. Put you in as easy as into the lowest one: bad lifting such a leg as yours into the top one, and it's the comfortablest of the three when you're in." "O, that's it, is it? all right; glad I'm here then; getting in didn't hurt more than a flea-bite," saying which Jim turned his face away to put his teeth down hard on a lip already bleeding.
You see you weren't there, and so the two resident partners acted for the firm. But Mr Montague, you'd better go with us. You had indeed. 'And about my own income? 'That's a flea-bite. When we've got a little ahead with this it won't matter, sir, whether you spend twenty thousand or forty thousand dollars a year.
A flea-bite! Why, my expenses haven't been seven hundred a month." Mr. Prohack sat aghast; but admiration was not absent from his sentiments.
My own accidental cut across the knuckles was a flea-bite. Doctor Livesey patched it up with plaster and pulled my ears for me into the bargain.
'Peters, I cried, 'you know you have no right to be doing things like that without consulting me! Do that once more, and I swear I have nothing further to do with you! 'Rubbish, said Peters: 'why all this unnecessary heat? It was a mere flea-bite. I felt that I needed it. 'He injected it with his own hand... remarked Clodagh.
"Locke King's division was a flea-bite," cries a staunch Protestant, "the Pope has done it all."
I have had to deal with worse men than you and I'm still alive. I'll tell you right now that I'm not going out of England. I've got a big game on. What did you think of offering me?" "A thousand pounds," said the other. "I thought it would be something like that," said Crawley coolly. "It is a flea-bite to me. You take my tip and find another way of keeping her quiet.
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