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Updated: May 13, 2025
His grandfather was in high feather, and covered him with blessings. The musicians of the orchestra shouted with laughter, and congratulated the boy, who refused to look at them or to shake hands with them. Melchior listened intently, gaging the applause, which had not yet ceased, and wanted to take Jean-Christophe on to the stage again.
"Let go twenty fathoms!" The pilot sighed relief as the starboard anchor splashed into the water and the cable roared after it through the hawse pipe. "What nationality are you?" asked the commander, watching the Puncher swing and gaging distances, but sparing one eye now for his unwelcome but official guest. "Me, sah?" "Yes, you."
What happened within the next few minutes in the stuffy little room of Professor Cassidy's third-floor "gymnasium" marks an epoch in the professor's life he still talks of it, and doubtless shall until the Great Referee counts him out in the Last Round. The two men sparred for a moment, gaging one another. Then Battling Dago Pete swung a vicious left that landed square on Billy's face.
It was undesirable that they should sell their shares until he had disposed of his. They had, he argued, the same opportunities for forecasting the course of the market and gaging the trend of investors' ideas as he enjoyed, and if they did not make use of them, it was their fault.
Then he went below and feasted on preserved beef and tea, gaging the size of each slice with anxious care, until he reluctantly laid the can aside. After that, he filled his pipe and stretching his aching limbs out on the port locker, which was comparatively dry, soon sank into heavy sleep. Carroll slept for several hours before he awakened and sat up on the locker, shivering.
Dumont had neither time nor strength for emotion; he was using all his mentality in gaging what he had for the work in hand just how long and how efficient was the broken sword with which he must face his enemies in a struggle that meant utter ruin to him if he failed.
Time and again they went over the ground with infinite care, counting and gaging the obstacles in their way, devising means to overcome them, and rehearsing the effort in advance. So much stress had been laid during the war on psychology, and such far-reaching consequences were being drawn from the Germans' lack of it, that these public men made its cultivation their personal care.
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