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But as no ties are binding among such a knot of villains, the rest of the conspirators were jockeyed by G , who, in order to monopolize the advantage to himself, hurried his prize into the country, and secreted him even from his confederates, in a place of concealment one hundred miles from London, under the same ridiculous pretence of M 's having taken out a writ against him, and of bailiffs being in pursuit of him everywhere round London.
On the 2d of December, the February revolution is jockeyed by the trick of a false player, and what is seer to be overthrown is no longer the monarchy, but the liberal concessions which had been wrung from it by centuries of struggles.
We jockeyed about for starting positions, and she insulted me by offering me a handicap which, of course, I refused. For several hundred miles it was nip and tuck, as it were. Then, over Luxembourg, I put all my energies into a magnificent sprint and won the race by three and a half broom lengths. She claimed a foul and went off in a fit of sulks, of course. I simply crawled home."
"By Jove, they've jockeyed us!" cried Captain Heseltine, and he turned to his chief for orders. "We must be after them," exclaimed the Governor. "Let the orders be given. You, Heseltine, go and bring up the police. This looks like business." The column was soon on the march, followed by a string of women and children, which was speedily outstripped when the word to trot was given.
In July, 1914, he was out of office. A telegram came to him from Mr. Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, requesting to see him urgently. Lord Fisher refused to see him, believing that Mr. Churchill had jockeyed Mr. Reginald McKenna out of the Admiralty Mr. McKenna who had most bravely, nay heroically, stood by the naval estimates in face of strong Cabinet opposition.
Still they think art can be got round some way or other jockeyed, so to say. I rather think in this fashion: that a highly gifted and carefully educated man shall, like Mr. So let us say that the aforesaid operatives will have to keep their inborn gifts and education for their dreams.
How we lingered in long queues, and stamped up and down, and sat about crowded, stuffy halls, waiting, only waiting, to be asked to do something for our country by any little guttersnipe who happened to have been jockeyed into the requisite position of authority! What innocents.... I have memories of several afternoons spent at a pleasant place near St.
"Think how he jockeyed you about the money," said I, assuming the part of the tempter. "By the way," said McGregor, "it's understood the signorina enters into possession of the President's country villa, isn't it?"
"For some time past that man, who used to make himself so small and humble, has been taking airs of authority in the house which are quite intolerable; he behaves openly as the son-in-law; and you know very well, in that affair of Thuillier's election he jockeyed us all, and made us the stepping-stone for his matrimonial ambition."
The poor cure's worst misgivings were realized: the rising generation of the plebians had played the mischief with the haughty old noble. "The little ones had jockeyed for the bones oh," and pocketed such of them as seemed adapted for certain primitive games then in vogue amongst them. "I'll excommunicate them," roared the curate, "and all their race."
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