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That's great stuff for preventing the fire taking hold if you don't stay in the blaze too long. But, as I say, they've discovered something new." "You used to be a fire-eater?" asked Joe curiously. "Yes. And I was counted a pretty good one. But I lost my nerve." "How?" "Well er not to put too fine a point on it, I got too fond of the fire-water.
When her father laughed at her, she told him that horses often suffer terrible pain from their teeth, and that sometimes a runaway is caused by a metal bit striking against the exposed nerve in the tooth of a horse that has become almost frantic with pain.
She had married Mr. Whelan on the assumption that Macavoy was dead. But Mr. Whelan had not the nerve to desert her, and so he departed this life, very loudly lamented by Mrs. Whelan, who had changed her name with no right to do so. With his going her mind dwelt greatly upon the virtues of her mighty vanished Tim: and ill would it be for Tim if she found him.
That requires practice, with nerve and judgment." I think that a person who would be guilty of such a display of "nerve and judgment" deserves similar punishment with the whip. It is in the hands of such men that horses earn the reputation of being bad-tempered. This writer also tells us "not to give water before feeding, as it weakens the saliva in a horse's mouth!"
Such English, graceful with the grace of nerve, flexibility, and power, must always have attracted attention; but it had also an ethical element which was almost inseparable from its literary characteristics. Two things powerfully determined the style of these sermons.
Youthful and humane, Ned nevertheless felt a savage joy when the man's skull crashed beneath his blow. It is true that he was quite mad for the moment. His rage and horror caused every nerve and muscle within him to swell. His brain was a mass of fire. His strength was superhuman.
What a curious compound of nerve ends and gland activities a man's dreams that he lived by, or died for were! She pulled him out of his reverie by a deliberate movement of resolution, taking her hands away from her face, half rising and turning her chair so that she faced him squarely. "I want to know in so many words," she said, "why you're glad that I'm still bound to that Ravinia thing.
Nay, more, it needs but to injure a nerve to see that the power of the mental force over the physical forces is dependent on conditions which are themselves physical; and one who takes morphia in mistake for magnesia, discovers that the power of the physical forces over the mental is unconditioned by any thing mental.
They lacked the nerve, and their vacillation gave confidence and reputation to an enemy that need never have been allowed to become formidable.
Now, she ain't one to sleuth around, or cross-examine, or anything like that; but what she's missed of this little affair that I ain't breathed a word of to anybody is more'n I've got the nerve to ask. Course, it was her put that corkin' silver frame on Vee's picture in the first place.
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