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Updated: June 23, 2025
I go in for doing something, or backing out. As it is, we are making a milk-and-water affair of it. We are starved and choked. That's all we have to show for what we have done." "Why don't you preach, and say, 'The way of the transgressor is hard, or something of that sort, which is original," snarled Howe. "I should judge from your talk that you did not feel very good," added Herman.
I set myself against Comrade Gregory as impersonally and as calmly as I should choose one pistol rather than another out of that rack upon the wall; and I say that rather than have Gregory and his milk-and-water methods on the Supreme Council, I would offer myself for election " His sentence was drowned in a deafening cataract of applause.
But if he were in the White House instead of that milk-and-water puppet of Wall Street, we'd be shooting those murderers down in Cuba as we ought to be.
I might as well yield, with such milk-and-water fellows around me. Don't say anything to Peaks." "You are a bigger fool than I thought you were," added Herman, taking no pains to conceal his disgust at the conduct of his leader. "All hands, on deck, ahoy!" piped the boatswain. All hands, Howe included, answered the call. The mutiny was ended.
Agnes was tall and slender, and moved with a great air of dignity and calm self-possession, and this to the uncontrolled Chaldea was also a matter of offence. She inwardly tried to belittle her rival by thinking what a milk-and-water useless person she was, but the steady and resolute look in the lady's brown eyes gave the lie to this mental assertion.
The Misses Dobbin kept Miss Osborne acquainted with the state of Amelia's affairs; how she was living with her father and mother; how poor they were; how they wondered what men, and such men as their brother and dear Captain Osborne, could find in such an insignificant little chit; how she was still, as heretofore, a namby-pamby milk-and-water affected creature but how the boy was really the noblest little boy ever seen for the hearts of all women warm towards young children, and the sourest spinster is kind to them.
Jolly good larks it is to see how all of you take for granted that a fellow never knew the taste of anything but tea and milk-and-water." "But what do you know the taste of?" she asked, with an earnestness that provoked the boy to tease and put on a boasting manner, so that she could not tell how much he was pretending for the sake of amazing and tormenting her, in which he certainly succeeded.
Yet I am not angry with thee, my love, for I think that it is a proof of stupidity, and, likewise, of a milk-and-water affection, which comes to the same thing, when the temper is governed by a square and compass. There is nothing picturesque in this straight-lined equality, and the passions always give grace to the actions.
If she shows off any of her aristocratic airs to me, I will soon make her understand that her room is better than her company." "What a milk-and-water looking thing she is," said Alice More; "they had better have kept their cosset at home; she will be calling, 'ma! ma! before night."
Milk-and-water chaps, all of them." "I I wanted to ask you and Fred and Charley," she said in a quavering voice. "That 's what I called you in for to ask you to come." "And what are you going to do?" he asked. "Walk, gather wild flowers, the poppies are all out now, eat luncheon at some nice place, and and " "Come home," he finished for her. Bessie nodded her head.
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