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Of their quarrels he made it clear that his wife had been "finicky," and had "fool notions," but he praised her for having "come around and learned that a man is a man, and sometimes he means a lot better than it looks like; prob'ly he loves her a lot better than a lot of these plush-soled, soft-tongued fellows that give 'em a lot of guff and lovey-dovey stuff and don't shell out the cash.
"I'd like to smash the whole outfit in a pair of minutes. By Cricky! we have poured enough good old American steel into those forts to build a bridge across the Atlantic, but the dagoes are still giving us guff." "It won't last much longer," said Tommy reassuringly. "From the looks of those batteries they haven't much fight left. I'll bet a hardtack against a prune we haul off at four bells."
Where they were, parks are being made to-day in which the sign "Keep off the grass!" will never be seen. The children may walk in them from morning till night, and I too, if I want to, with no policeman to drive us off. I tried to tell the policeman something about it. But he was of the old dispensation. All the answer I got was a gruff: "G'wan now! I don't want none o' yer guff!"
Her hungry eyes had grown hungrier each second, and her breath came and went quickly. The very face she had looked up at on her last talk with T. Tembarom the oddly human face turned on her as he came to her. It was just as it had been that night just as commonly uncommon and believable. "Say, Lady Joan! You didn't believe all that guff, did you You didn't?" he said. "No no no!
Well, I swanny!" exclaimed Hartley, helplessly. "When?" "Right away; some time this summer June, maybe." Hartley thrust his hands into his trousers pockets, stretched out his legs, and stared at his friend in vast amaze. "You're givin' me guff!" "I'm in dead earnest." "I thought you was going through college all so fast?"
I rolled into my bunk, and turned my face to the wall. My wits were still spinning from shock, and I didn't want to answer questions. "Where did Big 'Un go?" came from Blackie's bunk. "How do I know? Stow the guff, the lot of you; I want to sleep." But I didn't sleep. I lay there thinking about the face I had seen. Nils' shadow, Nils' clothes and the lady's face!
I don't know that I care to go rainbow-chasing assisted by Blisters, and Peewees but nefarious undertakings have always appealed to me, and I desire to cultivate your acquaintance. "We goes fur a long ride in the battle-ship. He don't say much just asks questions 'n' listens to my guff.
As he was the son of a chief, and, it was to be feared, might prejudice the natives against them, Reuben Guff was directed to pursue him. That worthy took with him Swiftarrow, and exerting his long sinewy legs to the utmost, soon overtook the fugitive and brought him back. But it was no part of Mackenzie's plan to tyrannise over men.
Now you've come again with your hook baited with patriotism, public spirit, the cry of the people and all the rest of the guff the newspapers you control have been handing out to their readers since you took them over. What's the idea?" The Boss rose, with what was intended for an air of injured dignity, but his fat face all at once seemed sagged and wrinkled, like a pricked balloon.
Suppose I gets the run next week, could I win another head office boy job by spielin' off a mess of guff about a lot of dead ones? Nit, never! But Mallory's got the bug that it'll all come in handy to me sometime, and I'm doin' it just to keep him satisfied. We get together most every night in his room, and I has to cough up what I've got next to durin' the day.
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