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So far as the result was concerned, he might about as well have gone after his gun. I certainly thought that was what he was going to do. He had sand. I could just see him stand there and balance the chances in his mind. "Another of the nerviest men I ever ran up against," the same officer went on, reflectively, "I met when I was sheriff of Dona Aña county, New Mexico.
Ed Wylie, an enthusiastic Hill School Alumnus, football player at Hill and Yale, tells the following anecdote: "The nerviest thing I ever saw in a football game was in the Hill-Hotchkiss 0 to 0 game in 1904. At the start of the second half, Arthur Cable, who was Hill's quarterback, broke his collar-bone. He concealed the fact and until the end of the game, no one knew how badly he was hurt.
And you can't influence the big ones without knowing how they feel. A fellow can't be poking in the dark in a speech or anywhere else. Now, these fellows here, they go into politics, sometimes; and there, I tell you, we come the nearest to a fair field and no favor! It is the best fellow gets the prize there the sharpest-witted, the nerviest, and stanchest.
Buddy McChesney, aged six months, is going to be the only male protector around the place. We'll make him captain of the home guard." "Gertie was in to-day. She says I'm a shrimp in my uniform compared to Charley. You know she always was the nerviest little stenographer we ever had about the place, but she knows more about Featherlooms than any woman in the shop except you.
But say, Rosemary, what did you and Floyd do to turn the tables so quickly?" "Rosemary did it all," Floyd said with a cheerful grin. "It was just a bluff!" and he told the story. "Nerviest thing I ever heard of!" complimented Captain Marshall. "Heap good squaw!" was Buck Tooth's opinion, and that seemed to sum it all up.
"I'm inclined," said the lawyer, as Percival peeled a peach, "to agree with your grandfather. This woman if I may use the term is one of the nerviest leg-pullers you're ever likely to strike." "Lord! I should hope so," said Percival, with hearty emphasis. "She studied your father and she knew him better than any of us, I judge.
"Well," returned the newspaper man, "I 'm darned if I don't make a statement to you then; that was the quickest and nerviest stunt I 've ever seen pulled off in New York city." "Thanks. Where 's the kid?" The kid, with a grin from ear to ear, had kindly assumed a pose upon the radiator of the machine which had so nearly killed him for the benefit of the insatiate photographers. It was 3457.
Please pardon me if I do not go into that. I do not wish to appear rude, but the reasons are quite personal, really." "Personal!... Well, I'll be dummed if this ain't the nerviest piece of brass cheek ever I Say, look here, Bangs! Why didn't you tell me you'd bought them shares? What did you Why, you must have had 'em all the time I was offerin' you commissions for buyin' 'em. Hey?
We trifled now with a fruity desert and the lady regaled me with a brief exposure of our great parcels-post system as a piece of the nerviest penny pinching she had ever known our Government guilty of. Because why? Because these here poor R.F.D. stage drivers had to do the extra hauling for nothing.
"And your nerve," chuckled Whittemore, crushing the other's hand. "That was when I made up my mind you were the nerviest man alive, Greggy. Did you ever learn what became of Donna Isobel?" "She appeared twice in Burke's, once as the 'Goddess of the Southern Republics' and again as 'The Girl of Valencia. She married that reprobate of a Carabobo planter, and I believe they're happy."
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