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"You'll find other two hundreds waiting," said he. "That's your gamble?" "That's my gamble." Again the card. "There's no sum mentioned here." Keenly the huge man's regard played over him. A scarecrow without question, poverty had had shabby sport with him, but honest. You couldn't mistake it. The large man's flattery had been ill-chosen, yet well-founded.
Then the long flat plain whereon the Easterns were camped, and beyond it, scarce two furlongs away, the banks of Nile. Indeed the place was ill-chosen for so great an army, nor could it have held them all, had not the camping ground been a full league in length, and even so they were crowded.
Almost pretty, I grant you, you are in virtue of quaintness, delicate hands, miniature feet, but ugly, after all, and absurdly small. You look like little monkeys, like little china ornaments, like I don't know what. I begin to understand that I have arrived at this house at an ill-chosen moment. Something is going on which does not concern me, and I feel that I am in the way.
I know that multitudes of men not vicious are disgusted with it, and offended by it, and that there is something call it what you may in the emotions excited by the presentation of a tract under such ill-chosen circumstances, which counteracts any good influence it was intended to produce.
He had received his note from the hands of a ragged urchin as he strolled by the river an hour before: its purport rather excited than alarmed him; but the rendezvous mentioned was so ill-chosen, from his point of view, that it caused him dismay. And he had in vain tried to catch sight of the Countess or find means of communicating with her without arousing suspicion.
Unfortunately his family inherited a few hundred dollars several years later and the village "astrologer" informed them that according to the feng-shui, or omnipotent spirits of the earth, wind, and water, the situation of the deceased gentleman's grave was ill-chosen and that if they ever hoped to enjoy good fortune again they must dig him up, give the customary feast in his honor and have another burial site chosen.
The lonely wayfarer shrunk within himself at the horrid clamour and clapper-clawing; eyed the den of discord askance; and hurried on his way, rejoicing, if a bachelor, in his celibacy. One day that Tom Walker had been to a distant part of the neighbourhood, he took what he considered a short cut homeward, through the swamp. Like most short cuts, it was an ill-chosen route.
Of his interview with Mr. Carvel I know nothing save that Scipio was requested presently to show him the door, and conclude therefrom that his language was but ill-chosen. Scipio's patrician blood was wont to rise in the presence of those whom he deemed outside the pale of good society, and I fear he ushered Mr.
Spring cleaning could never stop short of "cleansing the blood!" And after a monotonous winter of salt pork and fried potatoes no doubt heroic measures were necessary to make up for an ill-chosen diet. Nowadays we recognize no such seasonal need.
To such an extent had Natasha let herself go that the way she dressed and did her hair, her ill-chosen words, and her jealousy she was jealous of Sonya, of the governess, and of every woman, pretty or plain were habitual subjects of jest to those about her. The general opinion was that Pierre was under his wife's thumb, which was really true.
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