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"I'm not afraid of the shooting, and I'm not afraid of death," said Zurich impatiently; "but I am leery about that cussed old man. He'll find a way to fool us see if he don't!"
"You have to almost beg 'em to try for quarter-back. I don't know why, but almost every fellow is leery of that position. Usually a coach makes a quarter out of a fellow who thinks he's a born half or end. Well, I must beat it. See you tomorrow, then?" "Yes, indeed, I'll be there!" replied Clint earnestly. "Thanks for coming around." "Oh, that's all right. All in the way of duty, you know.
"'An' there'll be no monkeyin', Governor; you'll take me down to a bank yourself an' put the money in my hand? "'I promise you that, I assured him. "But he was not entirely quiet in his mind about it. He shifted uneasily from one foot to the other, and his soft rubber nose worked. "'Now, Governor, he said, 'I'm leery about jokers I gotta be. I don't want any string to this money.
They told him he wasn't the sleuth he thought he was, so he came back. They'll have the laugh on him now, for sure." McCann listened with admirable good-nature, gravely pulling at his cigar, and eyeing Mr. Cooke with a friendly air of admiration. "Mr. Crocker," he said, with melancholy humor, "it's leery I am with the whole shooting-match. Mr.
He banged a tomtom till he had gathered a crowd from the loose concourse of men who had come long journeys with esparto grass, or gums and ostrich plumes, and much else from the secret region inland. He was selling cotton shirts, and was an entertaining villain. By the corners of his mouth his humour was leery. He did not laugh, but his grimaces were funny.
I'm sure I don't know what the coloured folk of Charleston are coming to, one of them nearly pushed me off the sidewalk the other day, bag of impudence! and the way they look at one in the street with that sleery leery what-d'-you-call-yourself-you-white-trash grin on their faces s'nough to raise Cain in any one's heart."
I did, sir, for a moment. There was a sort of leery look about it, and it seemed to me as if she had just picked you out and meant to have you. All the lads here know I'm one as never brags, but if there's a bit of fighting on I am always ready to stick to my mates, just as I would now." "Ay, ay, Joe! That's a true word," came in chorus. "Thank you, messmates," said Joe modestly.
We're that leery of you we won't take your word for nothin', since you fooled him on the new boiler an' me on the paint; consequently, we're off you an' this salvage job unless you give us a clearance, in writin', statin' that we are not an' never was pirates, that we're good, law-abiding citizens an' aboard the Maggie as your guests, takin' the trip at our own risk.
But the close of the story was too much for her: she threw herself on a great divan, overcome—for the time being—with worry and maternal weakness. A grin strayed across Herr Carovius’s face. He twirled his Calabrian headpiece in his hands, and let his leery eyes wander about the walls.
"To my regret!" says the parson. "Now, then, we will soon get it over." "I I should like some victuals," said Andrey, "'twould gie me courage if it is only a crust o' bread and a' onion; for I am that leery that I can feel my stomach rubbing against my backbone." "I think we had better get it done," said the bride, a bit anxious in manner; "since we are all here convenient, too!"
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