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Updated: June 29, 2025
A bright zig-zag of light flashed down, the thunder crashed over head. The rain came down like a solid sheet of water. "Let her away again now," said Priscilla. "We can run right down on Inishark. Be ready to round her up into the wind when I tell you. I daren't jibe her." "Don't," said Frank. "I say, you'd better steer." "Can't now. We couldn't possibly change places.
He felt, as I have said, that he was not the one to have control over finances that was the wife's province. Then he had another attitude which certainly did not jibe with the Lord-of-the-Manor idea. Perhaps there would be something I wanted to do, and I would wait to ask him about it when he got home. Invariably the same thing would happen.
She was certainly a sight, for she stood by her own bonnet, and that failed to jibe with the goggles. Burnett was summoned in to view the proceedings, but just as he caught the first glimpse he was taken with a fearful cramp in his broken ribs and was forced to beat the hastiest sort of a retreat. "I hope he’ll get over it and be able to go out with us," said Aunt Mary anxiously.
Meantime the plutocrats, wholly careless of the significant signs of the times and the growing irritation and resentment of the people, continued their illegal practices, scoffing at public opinion, snapping their fingers at the law, even going so far in their insolence as to mock and jibe at the President of the United States.
Look here, what YOU want ain't a pen, but a clothes-pin and a split nail! That'll about jibe with your dilikit gait." The master at once stepped to the window and, unobserved, took a quick survey of the interior.
O thou, thou reptile! filthy thing! A barber! O dog! A barber? What? when I bid fair for the highest honours known? O sacrilegious wretch! monster! How? are the Afrites jealous, that they send thee to jibe me? Thereupon he set up a cry for his wife, and that woman rushed to him from an inner room, and fell upon Shibli Bagarag, belabouring him.
That gospel had been taught before him by English-speaking men, uttered half-articulately by Shan O'Neill, expressed in some passionate metaphor by Geoffrey Keating, and hinted at by Swift in some bitter jibe, but it was stated definitely and emphatically by Wolfe Tone and it did not need to be ever again stated anew for any new generation.
But the number, as tallied by the automatic gates, does not jibe with the number of ordinary admissions sold at the ticket office. To-night there is a difference of about eight hundred and seventy-five." "Do you mean," asked Joe, "that that number of persons came in on tickets that were never sold at the ticket wagon?" "That's just what I mean.
Yet now, as he saw his bargain whisked away from him and listened to Wilson's jibe, the thing snapped in his grip like a rotten twig. He stared down at the broken pieces for a while, as if wondering how they came there, then dashed them on the ground while Wilson stood smiling by. And then he strode with a look on his face that made the folk fall away.
"You have said so, Mr. Sprouse, but your idea of wrong and mine may not jibe." "There cannot be two ways of looking at it, sir," said Sprouse, after a moment. "She could do no wrong." Whereupon Barnes reached his hand across the table and laid it on Sprouse's. His eyes were dancing. "That's just what I want to be sure about," he said. "It was my way of finding out your intentions concerning her."
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