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Updated: May 17, 2025
Everybody seemed trying to outtalk his neighbor, and only one glowering countenance showed dark by contrast; the face of Elsa Winkler, with its eyes angrily fixed upon the basket which Mrs. Trent held on her lap, quite forgetting what it contained in her listening to the others' words.
And thus was our hero educated until he arrived at the age of sixteen, when he was a stout, good-looking boy, with plenty to say for himself, indeed, when it suited his purpose, he could outtalk his father. Nothing pleased Mr Easy so much as Jack's loquacity. "That's right; argue the point, Jack argue the point, boy," would he say, as Jack disputed with his mother.
But I shall pray for you, and I will return anon, when perchance your heart shall be softened by the near imminence of your end." "Sir," quoth Crispin wearily, "you would outtalk a woman." "I've done, I've done," he cried in trepidation, making shift to depart. On the threshold he paused again. "I leave you the lanthorn," he said. "May it light you to a godlier frame of mind.
But the tin and iron I wrought with my hands have helped make America the richest country in the world. The Indians were philosophers and orators; they could outtalk the white man every time. But the Indians had no houses and no clothes. They wouldn't work with their hands. A race that works with its hands has run the Indian off the earth.
It will be worth while for human eyes to see it and for human ears to hear it because, as I said, even if you press the throat of a Frenchman with your foot, he will still reply with knightly words. Therefore so help me God and Holy Cross they will outtalk us, but our knights will defeat them." "That will be glory, if God will bless us," said one of the nobles.
Result: the two pieces of highway came to the town line and there stopped doggedly. There were at least a dozen rods between the two ends. To judge from the language that the two town officers were now exchanging across the granite post, it seemed likely that the roads would stay separated. "Our s'leckman can outtalk him three to one," confided one of the Smyrna supporters to Constable Nute.
Yet," he added in a tone that showed he did not desire to be unfair to a man of education, "I have known some university men who became passably good reporters in time." The girl made no answer, but attended strictly to the work in hand. She had the rare gift of silence, and these intervals of quiet abashed Yates, whose most frequent boast was that he could outtalk any man on earth.
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