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He was rather trying the common arguments, as one tries tricks of fence merely to learn the way of parrying. But just here he saw a tempting opening, and could not resist giving a home-thrust. "Yes; but you surely would not consider it inspiration of the same kind as that of the writers of the Old Testament?" That cornered the Doctor, and he paused a moment before he replied.
"You have asked the advice of the council," said Councilman Gray to Hutchinson; "it has been given; you are bound to conform to it." Robert felt it was a home-thrust that Councilman Gray gave, who said further: "If mischief shall come, your excellency, by means of your not doing what the council has advised, you alone must bear the blame.
Thanking me for my confidence, she confessed how curious she had been to know me better, and she assured me that she would never have been imprudent enough to ask any questions about me from her landlady. Women have a more delicate, a surer tact than men, and her last words were a home-thrust for me.
"Ma foi!" he exclaimed, with his surprise restrained from the most delicate considerations for the little man's feelings; "have you been in the wars?" It was manifestly a home-thrust to Mungo.
A sort of trouble momentarily darkened his eye, and I believe he filled up the transient pause succeeding his antagonist's home-thrust, by a wish that some one did love him as he would like to be loved some one whose love he could unreservedly return. The lady pursued her temporary advantage. "If your world is a world without associations, Mr. Hunsden, I no longer wonder that you hate England so.
Ceaseless schemes were concerted by the municipal and clerical conspirators within its walls, and various attempts were known, at different times, to have been contemplated by Don John, to inflict a home-thrust upon the provinces of Holland and Zealand at the most vulnerable and vital point.
Whereupon, turning suddenly about, he gave Tripet a home-thrust, and upon the back of that, whilst he was about to ward his head from a slash, he ran him in at the breast with a hit, which at once cut his stomach, the fifth gut called the colon, and the half of his liver, wherewith he fell to the ground, and in falling gushed forth above four pottles of pottage, and his soul mingled with the pottage.
Nay, more, this question tormented me daily, 'You believe George disregards religion, because it condemns him; if you regard that religion, but do not practise it, does it not condemn you? Now this was a home-thrust, George, which I could not parry off.
He wound up by a reference to the ancestry of his opponent, and a suggestion that "this renegade Jew is descended from the impenitent thief, whose name was doubtless Disraeli." It was a home-thrust a picture so exaggerated and overdrawn that all England laughed.
"Are you a free-State man?" he asked Younkins. This was a home-thrust. Younkins came from a slave State; he was probably a pro-slavery man. "I'm neither a free-State man nor yet a pro-slavery man," he said, slowly, and with great deliberation. "I'm just for Younkins all the time. Fact is," he continued, "where I came from most of us are pore whites.
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