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Updated: June 28, 2025
We need not be stoical or affectedly bright; we often cannot give those who love us greater joy than to tell them of our troubles and let them comfort us. And we can be practical too in our outlook, because much of the grittiest irritation of life is caused by indulging indolence when we ought not, and being hurried when we might be leisurely.
Animal men, the country over, acknowledged him to be, not only the richest in the business, but the king of trainers and the grittiest man who ever went into a cage. And those who from the inside had seen him work were agreed that he had no soul. Yet his wife and children, and those in his small social circle, thought otherwise.
It takes the grittiest kind of perseverance to face such slights, to seem not to see the amused glance, not to hear the sneering comment, not to notice the contemptuous shrug. Such slights Russell endured daily from certain of his classmates, and though he realized fully that the opinion of these was of little value, nevertheless they hurt.
A bit different, that, to snipe shooting." "Well, yes, a trifle different, Jeems a trifle," conceded Blake. "My word! What haven't you been through!" burst out the Englishman. "And to think she, too, went through it all six weeks of it!" "That's it!" enthused Blake. "She's the truest, grittiest little girl the sun ever had the good luck to shine on!
Bud laid his off, and showed the physique of a prize-fighter. "You a'n't a-goin to fight me?" said Bud. "Not unless you make me." "Why I could chaw you all up." "I know that." "Well, you're the grittiest feller I ever did see, and ef you'd jest kep off of my ground I wouldn't a touched you. But I a'n't a-goin' to be cut out by no feller a livin' 'thout thrashin' him in an inch of his life.
She's the grittiest thing, man or woman, that ever blew into the Solomons. You should have seen Poonga-Poonga the morning we arrived Sniders popping on the beach and in the mangroves, war-drums booming in the bush, and signal-smokes raising everywhere. 'It's all up, says Captain Munster." "Yes, that's what I said," declared that mariner. "Of course it was all up.
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