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Hold the candle, carn't you? and hold your tongue." Mary was startled again by hearing the tread of a horse, but it was only the old grey munching round. Her father finished skinning, and drew the carcase up to a make-shift "gallows". "Now you can go to bed," he said, in a gentler tone.
In 1857 an act for reforming the system was at last passed with great difficulty. It was a somewhat incoherent and make-shift measure, and was avowedly put forward only as a step towards further reform; but it still substantially governs English procedure, and in the eyes of many has set a permanent standard of morality.
With such unhappy apprehensions for a stimulant, between them the man and the girl contrived a make-shift counter-stratagem; or it were more accurate to say that Kirkwood proposed it, while Dorothy rejected, disputed, and at length accepted it, albeit with sad misgivings. For it involved a separation that might not prove temporary. Together they could never escape the surveillance of Mr.
On August 1 Clark occupied the fort. Clark's plan had worked to perfection. Therefore, when Governor Hamilton moved south from Detroit in December with his own make-shift army, Clark's men had to abandon Vincennes and flee west to Kaskaskia. All seemed lost. Again the refusal of the Americans to follow European military conventions paid off.
Though I made sure she did not love me, had never loved me as other than a make-shift confidant, whose face and age would set him far beyond the pale of sentiment, yet I had hoped this friendship-love would give her leave to call upon me in her hour of need. Was I the one to whom her message had been sped? Suddenly I remembered what Richard had said; that the arrow was the Catawba's.
They had a liking for the Colonel, but still they had some idea of hanging him, as a sort of make-shift that might answer, after a fashion, in place of more satisfactory game. But they made the mistake of waiting to hear what he had to say first. Within fifteen minutes his tongue had done its work and they were all rich men.
Men bowed down by a great sorrow, bewildered by a bereavement for which there is none but a make-shift remedy, men whose "life is read all backwards and the charm of life undone," are not they whose sorrow usually makes them void of sympathy for the distressed. Nay! their own sadness makes them responsive to the cry of the needy, the lonely, and the fallen.
West Point has turned out some big men, like Rosecrans, Grant, Hooker, and many others that are a credit to the country men of genuine talent, who have none of those foolish prejudices, that the regulars are the only soldiers, and that volunteers are a mere make-shift, that can't be depended upon.
As to Willis he failed egregiously, when he attempted to 'gild refined gold and paint the lily, as he did in his so-called 'Sacred Poems. He can spin a yarn pretty well, and coin a new word for a make-shift, amusingly, but save me from the foil-glitter of his poetry." "This is surprising! You upset all precedent. I really wish you had not said these things.
"It looks," I said, "as if our voyage was almost over." And it was. Mr. Atwood had a tough job on his hands, towing the launch. But the make-shift sail helped some and I did my best to steer in his wake. Miss Colton and I had no opportunity to talk. The gentleman in the dory kept up a running fire of remarks, shouted between grunts, and embroidered with cheerful profanity.
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