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Yet it was a reflection that he readily dismissed from his mind. In such a pass as he now found himself none but a weakling could waste time and energy in bewailing the circumstances that had conspired to it. In a man of La Boulaye's calibre and mettle it was more befitting to seek a means to neutralise as much as possible the evil done.
Here the poor cutler received from Julian such a gratuity for the loan of the swords, that he generously abandoned the property to the gentlemen who had used them so well; "the rather," he said, "that he saw, by the way they handed their weapons, that they were men of mettle, and tall fellows."
There had never been the least avowed competition between the cousins their lines lay too far apart for that; but they nevertheless rode their course in sight of each other, and Peter had now the impression of suddenly seeing Nick Dormer give his horse the spur, bound forward and fly over a wall. He was put on his mettle and hadn't to look long to spy an obstacle he too might ride at.
Hugh gratefully accepted their counsel, and added, "All the same, Brother Gerard, you will have to see to it that you are as modest as you are free in your discourse. It may well be, that in order to be able to know us well, that sagaciously clever and inscrutable minded prince pretends not to hear us, just to prove our mettle.
"Ay, ay, run home as fast as you can, and say nothing of what you have seen." "Who, I? Nay, fear me not. Pah! I scorn a tale bearer." "Away with you, then. I hear the clash of armour." This put life and mettle into the heels of the bonnet maker, who, turning his back on the supposed danger, set off at a pace which the smith never doubted would speedily bring him to his own house.
William H. Neligan, LL.D., M. A., Trinity College, Dublin; Member of the Archaeological Society of Great Britain." Therefore, I believe it. Otherwise, I could not. Under other circumstances I should have felt a curiosity to know what Philip had for dinner. This author puts my credulity on its mettle every now and then. He tells of one St.
"Three cheers for Miss Violet!" "Three cheers for the governors!" Then again, in regular order, the captain of each house stepped forward and called for three cheers for his own house, all of which were vigorously given each house being on its mettle to drown all the others. Last in the list Ainger stepped forward and called for "Three cheers for Railsford's!"
When he got near his own street, though, he got cautious again, and I had all I could do to keep him from catching me on his trail he's a sharp one, when he wants to be, and he's on his mettle now." "I know the breed. He'll turn and fight like any other rat if he's cornered, but meanwhile he'll try at any cost to get away from us," Blaine responded. "You have him well covered, Ross?"
But the depleted lines of the marines held; the men who had fought on their nerve alone for days once more showed the mettle of which they were made.
She was put upon her mettle; and one by one they got to feel there was somebody among them whose little finger, if they insulted her, was thicker than a Mountclere's loins. She must have had a will of iron; it was a situation that would have broken the hearts of a dozen ordinary women, for everybody soon knew that we were of no family, and that's what made it so hard for her.
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