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Updated: May 1, 2025
"I should like to see the thing that ever scared you; or the knockdown that YOU couldn't pick up from!" "Is that so, Persis?" he asked, with the joy her courage gave him. In the middle of the night she called to him, in a voice which the darkness rendered still more deeply troubled: "Are you awake, Silas?" "Yes; I'm awake." "I've been thinking about those English parties, Si " "So've I."
It was really a knockdown blow to the most of us, for while we may have been jealous on occasions of each other, it never occurred to any of us to be jealous of the train-wrecker.
"I fancy old Han guessed that I was was well, fond of you and all that sort of thing." "Dear Dicky!" "Boys are terrible softies at this age," my young master admitted. "And, after all, it was rather a knockdown, you know, when papa's letter came with the news." "But we're friends, eh? you and I just as before?" "Oh, of course only you might have told. . . . And I've brought you a parrot.
True, she did not say so outright; perhaps she was not even aware of it; but Laura gathered from her talk that a boy at her school, a boy some three years older than herself, had given her a silk handkerchief and liked to help her with her sums. And to Laura this was the most knockdown blow of all. One day it came to an open quarrel between them.
They have a currency as intellectual counters; and many respectable persons pay their way with nothing else. They seem to stand for vague bodies of theory in the background. The imputed virtue of folios full of knockdown arguments is supposed to reside in them, just as some of the majesty of the British Empire dwells in the constable's truncheon.
"I don't like that big fellow worth a cent." "Good reason!" was the captain's rather sarcastic comment. "You haven't any license to joke me about that knockdown, Bart Brittler! I noticed you weren't in any hurry to mix it with him." There was a moment of silence. "What's that?" cried the captain, suddenly. "Sounds like water running in! Hope the old scow isn't leaking. Let's have that lantern!"
Probably a man can experience few more thrilling moments than he will enjoy standing in one of the small leafy rooms of an African jungle while several hundred tons of buffalo crash back and forth all around him. In the best of circumstances it is only rarely that having identified his big bull, the hunter can deliver a knockdown blow.
I accordingly waited until he got quite close about twenty yards away and then fired my .303 at his chest. I heard the bullet strike him, but unfortunately it had no knockdown effect, for with a fierce growl he turned and made off with great long bounds.
That this attack was really instigated by the men I have no doubt whatever, since, as you have heard, it was begun by a Lascar, who tried to stab one of my companions and who received a knockdown blow that caused his death from one of the others. It is a well known fact that these people will cherish for many years a determination to avenge any injury.
Men who possess such talent follow their path courageously; they accept its pains and penalties, and don't cover them with tinsel." A woman's thought is endowed with incredible elasticity. When she receives a knockdown blow, she bends, seems crushed, and then renews her natural shape in a given time. "Felix is no doubt right," thought she.
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