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Updated: June 24, 2025
What I should do there and then, I had no guess, and did not greatly care, being a devotee of a couple of divinities called Chance and Circumstance. Prepare, if possible; where it is impossible, work straight forward, and keep your eyes open and your tongue oiled. Wit and a good exterior there is all life in a nutshell.
He said they'd got to stop makin' that noise and I said I'd oil 'em every day. And and I forgot it." "Yes well, I ain't surprised to death, exactly. What then?" "Well well, you see, they were squealin' worse than usual one mornin' and Colonel Davidson he came in here and and I remembered I hadn't oiled 'em for three days.
"Tis true, 'said Peter, I'm alive: I keep my station in the world: Once in the week I just contrive To get my whiskers oiled and curled. But my assets are very low: My little income's overspent: To trench on capital, you know, Is always inconvenient! 'But pay your debts! cried honest Paul. 'My gentle Peter, pay your debts!
All the simple machinery of the mock pharmacy was so well oiled that even an expert could detect no commerce more dangerous than Lubin's Powders, crimson lip salve, or a powder puff.
And it certainly had nothing to do with the wholesome odor of hay and cow feed, or the smell of whitewash and oiled tools. "Yes, you were dreaming." Alicia began to edge the colored women toward the doors.
At last Meinik said that, by the stars, it was already past midnight; and they then proceeded to the spot where they had before climbed the palisade. Here they at once set to work. The saws were well oiled and, in a very few minutes, five bamboos were cut away, at the level of the ground and six feet above it.
In a little while his breathing denoted that he was fast asleep. Salmon went to bed, too; but did he sleep? Do not think, after all this, that he gave way to weak despondency. Something within him seemed to say, "What you have you must obtain through earnest struggle and endeavor. It is only commonplace people and weaklings who find the hinges of life all smoothly oiled.
But the effort was too great. He not only flung himself far enough up, but too far, and his descending knee, striving for a hold, slipped off as if from an oiled surface. He came down with a jar, the full length of his arms, a fall that flung him down on his back on the ground. With a stifled curse he leaped up again.
So far as the mere muscular movement goes, the sensation is that of being well oiled.
But after we had oiled him up, he was as good as new and accompanied us to the Emerald City." "Ah, that was a sad experience," asserted the Tin Woodman soberly. "I was caught in a rainstorm while chopping down a tree for exercise, and before I realized it, I was firmly rusted in every joint. There I stood, axe in hand, but unable to move, for days and weeks and months!
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