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I was much amused to hear Hawley speak of these great spirits as if he and they were chums of long standing. "'Solomon has resigned from the club, he said, with a sad sigh. 'He was a good fellow, Solomon was, but he thought he knew it all until old Doctor Johnson got hold of him, and then he knuckled under.
We'll see who won't stand it or not!" This threat had the desired effect: Horncastle knuckled down as if by magic. "Oh, don't be a brute, Mrs Nash," he said, in tones of agitation. "Do us those sausages, there's a good body, and you can cram in half a dozen kids if you like."
You understand what I mean. Go along. The boy stopped in his rapid blinking, knuckled his forehead again, glanced at Sissy, turned about, and retreated. 'Now, girl, said Mr. Gradgrind, 'take this gentleman and me to your father's; we are going there. What have you got in that bottle you are carrying? 'Gin, said Mr. Bounderby. 'Dear, no, sir! It's the nine oils. 'The what? cried Mr.
The first glance of each was at the glass, which he repeatedly knuckled and frowned upon; for it was sagging lower all the time. Then, if Johnson were the visitor, he would pick a snack out of the cupboard, and stand, braced against the table, eating it, and perhaps obliging me with a word or two of his hee-haw conversation: how it was "a son of a gun of a cold night on deck, Mr.
He forgot for the moment the reeking Inn room where he stood, the beastly visages that surrounded him, the whimsy that had drifted him thither. All these things were forgotten, and the man that was little more than a boy in years was in fancy altogether a boy again, a shivering, quivering slip of a boy that stood on the gusty high-road and knuckled his eyelids to keep his eyes from crying.
She sat languidly down on a step of a stile that went over the fence at a considerable distance from the house, and Selwyn, protesting that he wanted no dinner, established himself on the protruding roots of a great beech-tree that, like gigantic, knuckled, gnarled fingers, visibly took a great grasp of the earth before sinking their tips far out of sight beneath.
An expression of frenzy seems to come up even from the dumb tossing steel; sometimes it seems to be shaking great knuckled fists at one and brandishing threatening arms, as it strains and sweats beneath the lash of the compulsive steam.
Thrice he crossed the empty form-room, with compressed lips and expanded nostrils, swaying to the quick-step. Then he halted before the dumb Beetle and softly knuckled his bead, Beetle bowing to the strokes. McTurk nursed one knee and rocked to and fro. They could hear Clewer howling as though his heart would break. "Beetle is the sacrifice," Stalky said at last, "I'm sorry for you, Beetle.
"I wouldn't have believed that I could have done this," he muttered. "If he had knuckled to me one iota I would have shown him the door; if he hadn't been so crippled if he hadn't been so downright honest and brave confound it! he almost made me feel both like killing him and taking him by the hand.
He considered himself different from other men. His thoughts would run: "Anybody but me would have knuckled down to Duncalf and remained a shorthand clerk for ever." "Who but me would have had the idea of going to the ball and asking the Countess to dance?... And then that business with the fan!" "Who but me would have had the idea of taking his rent-collecting off Duncalf?"
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