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"Ah, I hear much of the colonies; it must be a goodly land to dwell in, but for the savages and the cannibals." I laughed outright.
Marjorie looked at her in astonishment. The gorgeous trappings and the formal demeanor of the child made her think she must have mistaken the house. "Is this Mrs. Dunn's house?" she inquired, with some hesitation. "Yes; I'm Miss Dunn," said the child, with such a ridiculous air of affectation that Molly giggled outright. "Yes," Miss Dunn went on, "I am the eldest daughter. My name is Ella.
We have only rude accommodations here, but I hope you will pardon any lack of seeming hospitality," he said. The wild look vanished from the face of the gaunt man, and in its place came an expression of tremendous importance. Indeed, but for the seriousness of the situation Frank would have felt inclined to laugh outright, it was so absurd to see this poor lunatic putting on such magnificent airs.
Even in that moment of extreme peril Ian saw these claws strung together and encircling Elsie's neck. We say that the peril was extreme, for not only was the hunter a bad shot, but the hunted was a creature whose tenacity of life is so great that one shot, even if well placed, is not sufficient to kill it outright.
When Artemus says in that serious manner, looking admiringly at his atrocious pictures, "I love pictures and I have many of them beautiful photographs of myself;" you smile; and when he continues, "These pictures were painted by the Old Masters; they painted these pictures and then they they expired;" you hardly know what it is that makes you laugh outright; and when Josh Billings says in his Proverbs, wiser than Solomon's "You'd better not know so much, than know so many things that ain't so;" the same vein is struck, but the text-books fail to explain scientifically the cause of our mirth.
At the end of the week, the devoted young nurse had the delight of hearing her "Angel" laugh outright, for the first time in so many days, and to feel her darling's arms about her own neck while the pale little lips cried out once more the familiar, "Bonny come! Bonny come!"
"Mothers killed outright an' th' calves branded. Oh, I know it all but what could I do? Kep' gettin' poorer an' poorer. Couldn't afford enough riders t' protect 'em. Then couldn't afford any an' tried t' make it go as th' boys got older. Courtrey, damn him, wants me offen that piece o' land a-fore th' patent's granted. Him with his twenty thousan' acres of Lost Valley now! An' how'd he get it?
I laughed outright: the humour of it struck me as delicious. Curious, this human nature of ours, isn't it? But how infinitely beguiling! So I sat down beside Mr. Starkweather on the log and crossed my legs. I felt as though I had set foot in a new country. "Would you really advise me," I asked, "to start in to be a millionnaire?" He chuckled: "Well, that's one way of putting it.
He saluted and rode off; the prospective thrill of making love to Rose damped by the fact that he had not been able to look Lance in the eyes. Things couldn't go on like this. And yet...? Impossible to ask Rose outright whether there had been anything definite between them. If she said "No," he would not believe her: detestable, but true.
"For, although I have spoken of the monopolization of wealth and of the productive machinery by a portion of the people as being first of all a threat to the lives of the rest of the community and to be resisted as such, nevertheless the main practical effect of the system was not to deprive the masses of mankind of life outright, but to force them, through want, to buy their lives by the surrender of their liberties.
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