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"Well, ain't I a hard-working fellow?" "Let me look at your hands, M. Chapeau; the inside of your hands. No, you are not a hard-working fellow; your hand is as soft as a lady's." "What signifies my hand? I shan't make a worse husband, shall I, because my hand is not as horny as your own." "No, but a hard-fisted fellow is the only man that will suit my daughter."
All three itched sore to play off some trick on the old painter, who was a just man and a god-fearing, but hard-fisted withal and a cruel taskmaster. Accordingly one night, after listening to the old fellow's customary address to the Virgin, the three comrades fell a-laughing under the bed-clothes and cutting a hundred jokes.
A plain, hard-fisted farmer liked him and showed a preference for his society; the thing was unbelievable. "I get it through the kitchen that the old man's son's goin' to clear out tonight. Orders was sent to have a machine ready to take him to town at eleven o'clock.
Such a man as this, who has been hard-fisted all his life, and who has had his eyes thoroughly open, who has made his own money in the sharp intercourse of man to man, and who keeps it to the last gasp, he doesn't believe that he'll do his soul any good by giving it to hospitals when he can't keep it himself any longer. His mind has freed itself from those cobwebs long since.
I was took in by 'Hard-Fisted Sall, who always wore a knuckle-duster, and used to knock everybody down she met, and threatened a dozen times to whip Mr.
On the other hand, hard-fisted parents may have prejudices against any vocation which keeps the hands soft and white, and the clothing clean and fine. Thus, in many ways do the prejudices of parents, based upon ignorance, work tragedy in the lives of children.
Some refused to believe that Jason Philip had made restitution for the money young Jordan had embezzled. For, said Degen, the baker, Schimmelweis is a hard-fisted fellow, and whoever would try to get money out of him would have to be in the possession of extraordinary shrewdness. “But he has already paid it,” said Gründlich, the watchmaker.
Then there is, at certain seasons of the year, nothing whatever doing. Great hard-fisted fellows, with nautical garments and bronzed faces, are seen lounging about with their hands in their pockets, and with a heavy slowness in their gait, which seems to imply that they are elephantine creatures, fit only to be looked at and wondered at as monuments of strength and laziness.
He had no very definite idea where to go, or to whom to apply, but he concluded to put in an application anywhere he could. He paused in front of the house of Deacon Jones, a hard-fisted old farmer, whose reputation for parsimony was well known throughout the village, but of this Andy, being a newcomer, was ignorant. "Wouldn't you like to hire a good strong boy?" he asked, entering the yard.
In the same chapter we are told "de quodam viro divite tenacissimo" of a very hard-fisted rich fellow a term thoroughly significant in civilised times. He is doomed, by the way, to become bankrupt, and fall into such poverty that his offspring will be found dead in a ditch a fate also intelligible in the nineteenth century.
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