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The Lane such was its affectionate sobriquet was the stronghold of hard-shell Judaism, the Alsatia of "infidelity" into which no missionary dared set foot, especially no apostate-apostle.
He's under the ice now where you wanted to send Dick Hannay. He wasn't your kind, Graf, and I guess he has some chance of getting into Heaven. If I weren't a hard-shell Presbyterian I'd say a prayer for his soul. I looked only at Ivery. His face had gone very pale, and his eyes were wandering.
I have been told that almond trees raised from seed, no matter what kind of seed planted, will produce bitter almonds. Is this a fact? It is not a fact. The majority will probably be hard-shell, sweet and bitter, but others will be soft-shell, medium-shell, paper-shell, and everything else you ever heard of in the almond line. The almond has the sportiest kind of seedlings.
"You've got to take account of that. A girl might do a lot worse." "There ain't nobody good enough for Bonnie Bell," says I, "when it comes to that; but I was just sort of thinking I like a man to know something about riding and shooting, and that sort of thing, as well as dancing." "Curly," says he, "you said your pa was a hard-shell?" "Yes," says I. "A hard-shell Presbyterian?" says he.
The itinerant ranters held out at a schoolhouse near Lincoln's cabin; but in fine weather preferred the academy as the Platoists would say what was left of an oak grove, only one tree being spared, making a pulpit with leafy canopy for the exhorter. This man was a Hard-shell Baptist, commonly imperturbable to outside sights and doings when the spirit moved him.
I have been made aware, when expressing dissent or a low measure of faith, of an ill-concealed scorn, such as curls the lip of a Boston liberal or lights the eye of a "Hard-Shell" or a Covenanter when any one ventures to differ from him.
"Theoretically sound, but unfortunately impracticable," I answered, relieved at his change of tone. "I suppose it is." He looked at me, still smiling, but intent. "Chris, what do you believe comes after?" "Justice." "A hard word for cowards. What do I believe, I wonder? At any rate, in being sport enough to play the game through. You're right, old hard-shell. I'll stick it out.
What a welcome sight it would be to see a Medium mount a bit of twig, antennæ a crowd of Minims about him, and start off on a foray of his own! We may jeer or condemn the Attas for their hard-shell existence, but there comes to mind again and again, the wonder of it all.
There is, as we all know, the hard-shell division of their sex who, even without a gift, infinitely prefer the single and independent life in their early youth, and only begin to show thin spots in their armor as they approach thirty, sometimes not until it is far too late.
The Hindu or the Christian is equally ready to prove to you and mind you, he may be a wise old man with a beard that his national religion is obviously the only one. Find out what you yourself really do think, and if you turn out a Sun-worshiper or a Hard-shell Baptist, why, good luck.
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