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"That's their engineering," gibed he, as the little boat sailed under and they looked up like dwarfs at the legs of a Colossus. "The old Roman bridges are good for practically eternity, but these jerry steel things, run up for profits, go to pieces in a mere thousand years! Well, the steel magnates are gone now, and their profits with them.
But even when I dreamed of running, I never thought of more than a workman's cottage, with you earning wages and me trying to make both ends meet. And now look at us! Bloated capitalists and station owners." "Well, you were a cook not so long ago. I wouldn't be too proud," Wally gibed. "All the more reason for me to be proud I've risen in the world," declared Tommy.
'Oh, mad frenzy of one whom the gods would destroy. Three times before she had reined in her anger: now she stretched out her hands with her habitual gesture of pitiful despair. Her eyes looked straight before her, and, as she inclined her knees, the folds of her grey dress bent round her on the floor. 'Here I have pleaded with you, and you have gibed me with the love of the King.
They were of the silvered one-way mirror type that cuts down light transmission much as a neutral-density filter does for a camera. Rick watched as he put them on, took them off again, and polished them with a handkerchief, turning them from side to side as he watched for spots. "I knew those things looked like headlights," Rick gibed. "I didn't know they could also serve as rearview mirrors."
With all these walls and guns, and netting, and air-ships and a private army and all, what more do you want? Not getting nervous in your old age, are you, eh?" he gibed bitterly. "Or is your conscience beginning to wake up, as the graveyard becomes more a probability than " "Enough!" Flint snapped at him. "When you drink, Waldron, you're an idiot! Now, forget all this, and let's get down to work.
"Miles! and miles! Rough walking, too, darned rough! And your poor little feet " "I don't walk particularly with my 'poor little feet," gibed Eve Edgarton. "Most especially, thank you, Mr. Barton, I walk with my big wanting-to-walk!" "Oh," said Barton. "O h." The bones in his knees began suddenly to slump like so many knots of tissue-paper. "Oh all right Eve!" he called out a bit hazily.
He indeed believed himself to be very strong-minded; he imagined a romance concocted to destroy his tranquillity, and he gibed contentedly at having frustrated it. His experience of women was very slight, nevertheless he endeavoured to draw certain conclusions from the story she had told him, struck as he was at present by certain petty details, and feeling perplexed.
We printed the verses in which William Blake, the most religious of our great poets, called the anthropomorphic idol Old Nobodaddy, and gibed at him in terms which the printer had to leave us to guess from his blank spaces. We had heard the parson droning that God is not mocked; and it was great fun to mock Him to our hearts' content and not be a penny the worse.
In truth, he was so eager to add to my store of facts, so intent upon filling my head with what filled his, that at times I was fairly compelled to stop him, lest I tire. My mother opposed all this. "The lad needs none of thy wiles," she gibed. "He is no stripling; he is a man's man, and a fit son of his mother." "Aye," quoth my father slyly. "He has thy muscle and thy courage.
"Under the circumstances," said Van, "I'll take something different from what I got last time. No imperiousness this trip." He smiled grimly. "There was a time when I used to take orders. Suppose you call my choice 'subordinacy." "How very noble of you!" gibed Billie. "My idea is supremacy, and plenty of it! I want to get in touch with the man higher up the worker who is boss of the whole works!"
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