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Hogarth was nonplussed. "But the foot..." "Never mind the foot. Foot's still good for a run. Do we go shares?" "Come along, then". "But you ain't 'alf up to snuff, I can see, though you are pretty smart in your own way: I'd 'ave felt the confidence of a son in you, if you 'adn't overlooked that wine "
He knew that Joe was a crude creature, but believed, and had good reason to believe, that he had his code of honor which he would abide by at all cost. It was impossible for him to feel convinced that this would have permitted him to set fire to the stable. "Madge, I believe you're right," said he. Holton was nonplussed. Things were not going as he had expected and had wished them to, at all.
It is rather unfortunate for Joe that nature did not endow him with any bump of veneration, and that he is thus ready to embark on hazardous enterprises, in which he oftens comes to grief. When he made this quotation against Mr. Gladstone, the Old Man at once pounced on him with a demand for the date and the authority. Joe was nonplussed, but he stuck to his point. But on the following day Mr.
I could not fathom the mystery. It completely nonplussed me. I glanced round the room; there were many photographs upon the walls, among them Cambridge "eights" and "fours"; and sure enough, there he was, rowing in those very crews; and in the football and tennis pictures he also appeared as one of the best of them all. And how neat and clean was his one-room house! Everything was in order.
Published in the Official Report of the Universal Peace Congress, held in Boston in 1904, and in the Atlantic Monthly, December, 1904. Of what use is a college training? We who have had it seldom hear the question raised; we might be a little nonplussed to answer it offhand.
Instinctively her eyes went past the stammering man to the woman who hung behind his elbow. And the wearer of the nodding peonies cried out: "No, no! The Doctor isn't dead or ill, to call ill!" She turned angrily upon her husband. "See wot a turn you've give 'er," she snapped. "Why couldn't you up and speak out?" W. Keyse was plainly nonplussed.
Before I could say another word or strive to detain him, he turned and ran off along a narrow courtway which at this point branched from the street. I stood for a moment, nonplussed, staring after him. By good fortune I had learned more in ten minutes than by the exercise of all my ingenuity and the resources of the Service I could have learned in ten months!
"You have not looked for it today?" "No. Why should I?" Feeling distinctly nonplussed, for there was no denying that Fenley had chosen the best possible way of carrying off a delicate situation, Winter turned, walked slowly to a window and gazed down into the street. He was perturbed, almost irritated, by a novel sense of failure not often associated with the day's work.
He drew back with a stifled cry. "That there room o' yours," he faintly said when he reached the fireside again, "is right nerve-racking. It's like one of them Jack-boxes at Christmas." "She only stopped here because she was tired. When she awakens I will take her home," explained Miss Lowe. Greeley was nonplussed, but when he was in doubt he turned the subject and talked more than usual.
The best impromptu speeches and remarks are the carefully prepared kind," he added. Edward told him he regretted the reference because he knew that General Hayes would read it in the New York papers, and he would be nonplussed to understand it, considering the cordial relations which existed between the two men. Mr.
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