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Updated: May 16, 2025
"Well, yes, I did try to get out, got as far as the clerk's office last evening, but at the last minute I funked it, and went back on to the roof.
At last the tunnel was nearly a yard long, and big enough to creep along to find the treasure, if only it had been a bit longer. Now it was Albert's turn to go in and dig, but he funked it. 'Take your turn like a man, said Oswald nobody can say that Oswald doesn't take his turn like a man. But Albert wouldn't. So we had to make him, because it was only fair. 'It's quite easy, Alice said.
Edward Dixon, who was thirteen, and had a swollen red face and a projecting eye, wanted to fight him for spoiling the game, and the others agreed that he funked the fight in a rather dirty manner.
"Oh, John, do you think it was as horrible as all that?" His face moved, flashed into sudden passion. "I think he was as horrible as that. He makes it horrible inconceivably horrible." "But he wasn't." "You've told me. He was cruel to you. And he lied and funked." "It wasn't like him it wasn't like him to lie and funk. It was my fault. I made the poor thing jumpy.
When it's come to sticking out against Beatrice, and sailing the domestic ship in spite of her, I've always funked. I tell you I'm something of a moral coward. He had her so much on edge she was inclined to answer, 'So be it. Instead, she ran back over her own history: it consisted of petty discords in contemptible surroundings, then of her dreams and fancies, finally Siegmund.
The story he told was exactly that of the mock drama upon the launch. Bidlake had taken his wife. He had no wish to appeal to the Courts. He wished to fight, a point of view with which I entirely sympathised. I arranged a fight between the two. Bidlake funked it and never turned up. My advice to Fairfax was, whenever he met Bidlake, to give him the soundest thrashing he could.
"I'll tell you what, Naylor, if the poor fellow has crossed the ridge, and tried to go down on the Twll du, he's a dead man by this time." "He'll have funked it, when he comes to the edge, and sees nothing but mist below. But if he has wandered on to the cliffs above Trifaen, he's a dead man, then, at all events. Get out of the way of that flash! A close shave, that!
I'm not asking you to do anything I funk myself." "Oh, shut up. I'm going all right. Not because you've asked me, but because I want to." "If you didn't I should think you'd feel pretty rotten when I'm out with my Field Ambulance," said Queenie. "Damn your Field Ambulance!... No, I didn't mean that, old thing; it's splendid of you to go. But you'd no business to suppose I funked. I may funk.
"Don't think I'm discouraged," said Brent. "The reverse. You showed that you have nerve a very different matter from impudence. Impudence fails when it's most needed. Nerve makes one hang on, regardless. In such a panic as yours was, the average girl would have funked absolutely. You stuck it out. Now, you and I will try Lola's first entrance. No, don't throw away your cigarette.
He said he'd escaped from prison and, after a lot of difficulty and hardship, got back to England. But he hadn't done anything of the sort. He'd funked it at the last. He got as far as Dover, and then he turned back ... frightened. He stayed in London for a while ... and then he tried again ... and this time he didn't funk it! They say he was fighting splendidly when he was killed.
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