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Five thousand dollars will buy a good farm east, but one could work it with a good deal more comfort and sartainty if one had another five thousand lying in the bank ready to draw upon in case of bad times. We ain't fools; we don't mean to gamble or drink away what we have made; it will just lie in the bank at Sacramento until we want to draw it.
With the most rigid economy he would not have more than a hundred pounds left then. It was very little to have as a stand-by in case he was ill and could not earn money or found himself at any time without work. A lucky gamble would make all the difference to him. "Oh, well, it doesn't matter," said Macalister. "Something is sure to turn up soon.
He began to drink and gamble in North Platte, more in a bitter defiance to fate than from any real desire; then with Larry King he drifted out to Kearney. At Kearney, Larry got into trouble characteristic trouble. In a quarrel with a construction boss named Smith, Larry accused Smith of being the crooked tool of the crooked commissioners who had forced Neale to quit his job.
She is very much given to trade and trafficking. If any rights and privileges are to be granted to the natives, do not give them to the men but to the women. Q. Then you think it would be much better to give the women the right to vote than the men? A. O, much better. Why, even in the fields it is the women who do the work; the men go to the cock fights and gamble.
We waited, we listened, we forgot our sufferings, we hoped once more. We had staked our salvation on this one last gamble. Despite the buzzing in my head, I soon could hear vibrations under the Nautilus's hull. We tilted. The ice cracked with an odd ripping sound, like paper tearing, and the Nautilus began settling downward. "We're going through!" Conseil muttered in my ear.
Montague found himself wondering whether he was there because Mrs. De Graffenried and her friends liked to have somebody they could snub and wipe their feet upon. His eye ran down the row of people sitting at the table, and the contrast between them and Gamble was an amusing one. Mrs.
The Indians gamble as if by instinct. On one occasion the writer was visiting a frontier town just after its settlement. Indians were present in very large numbers, and in a variety of ways they got hold of a good deal of money. The newcomers from the Eastern States were absolutely unprepared for the necessary privations of frontier life.
If you had been running into debt, I should not have been able to gratify your wishes now; but the property is so nearly disencumbered, that you can perfectly afford to marry her, with the very fair fortune she must have, unless her father should gamble it away in Peru. This was for Lord Ormersfield the incoherency of joy, and Louis was quite carried along by his delight.
"No, thank you," answered Paul, politely, "I must get home." "But I wish you'd come. I hate being by myself and you seem such a good sort of chap." "Well," said Beecot, thinking he might say a word in season to this young fool, "I don't gamble." "Oh, you cry down that, do you?" "Well, I think it's foolish." "It is," assented Lord George, frankly, "infernally foolish. And Hay has all the luck.
"With the help of these Talents, Incorporated people, you've worked out a new battle tactic you want to put into practice. You've explained it to the War Council. The War Council has decided that it is too risky. We cannot gamble the lives of the people on Kandar. We have not the right to expose them to Mekinese vengeance!" "I agree, Majesty," said Bors, "but at the same time "
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