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Updated: June 10, 2025
And would an explanation of the mode in which those woodpeckers came to be green, however complete, convince him that the color was undesigned? Either way it seems to us that the argument here, as well as the insect, performs hari-kari.
You're in wrong. A man isn't in right when he's playing on the losing end." "I stay where you put me," insisted Harlan, doggedly. "I'm with General Waymouth." "General Waymouth was a winner till he committed hari-kari there last night. He had Luke's machine, and he had my scheme.
Jimmie gave him the names of books to read, and Lacey promised to read them; of course, Jimmie was proud and happy seeing a vision of the Empire Machine Shops turned over to the control of the workers, the capitalist system committing hari-kari in one American industry.
"Well, gentlemen," I cried, "here we are, in a nice little Russian trap. What do you propose to do?" "We thought at first of performing hari-kari," said one of them. "But Captain Nagai, with whom you were discussing the subject of hari-kari, only the night before last, appears to have come round to your way of thinking that it is better to live for the Emperor than to die for him.
Look a man calmly through the very centre of his pupils and ask him for anything with a tone implying entire conviction that he will grant it, and he will very commonly consent to the thing asked, were it to commit hari-kari. The Captain acceded to my postulate, and accepted my friend as a corollary.
Once again I suffered the superior smile and was given to understand that his blood was the same blood that had licked Russia and was going to lick the United States some day, and that if his blood wasn't able to cure a few trifling cuts, he'd commit hari-kari in sheer disgrace. From all of which I concluded that an amateur M.D. is without honour on his own vessel, even if he has cured himself.
A rataplan on a side-drum feebly played in the street outside! the village crier announcing that a calf had committed hari-kari on one of the flag-poles put up to warn horsemen that they mustn't take short cuts over sown land. The veal resulting from the accident would be shared out among the villagers that evening.
And it appears that, though Nick is honest personally, he is a thief for the car, and in Bengal took anything new and nice which other motors had and his hadn't. Now, Mrs. Norton is afraid that, if Sir Lionel scolds him much, he will commit hari-kari on the threshold of the hotel, which would be embarrassing. And it does no good to tell her that hari-kari is a Japanese or Chinese trick.
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