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"'Well, when a boy, they say he was considerable sum as a wrastler. "Sourcrout won't larf, because it's agin rules; but he gig goggles like a turkey-cock, and says he, 'It's for ever and ever the same thing with Brother Josh. He is like an over-shot mill, one everlastin' wishy-washy stream.
"Can it be that Stephen is really in earnest?" asked the older woman of her disturbed heart; and the next instant, shaking her wise head, she added, "Poor little redbird! What does she know of life outside of a cedar tree?" At luncheon the Governor, in an effort to hide some perfectly evident anxiety, over-shot the mark as usual, Corinna reflected.
His laughter subsided again and he sat gazing thoughtfully at the publisher. "Unless it means," he wound up, "that I've over-shot the mark." "If I am the mark, you certainly have," said Harviss, with a glance at the clock. The Professor caught the glance and interpreted it. "The book is a skit," he said, rising. The other stared. "A skit? It's not serious, you mean?"
The spring he took shot him up through the hole like an arrow taking flight. He never touched the root, but over-shot the mark and disappeared with a loud scream of amazement and alarm into the outer world. "Somebody grabbed him!" shouted Andy Sudds. "Oh, lawsy-massy-gollyation!" yelped the frightened darkey. "Massa Mark done been kerried up, suah 'nuff!
"'Well, when a boy, they say he was considerable sum as a wrastler. "Sourcrout won't larf, because it's agin rules; but he gig goggles like a turkey-cock, and says he, 'It's for ever and ever the same thing with Brother Josh. He is like an over-shot mill, one everlastin' wishy-washy stream.
I felt a gleam of hope at these last words. "Oh, you had bad luck?" "The worst. I over-shot the green at the third with the best brassey-shot I've ever made in my life and that's saying a lot and lost my ball in the rough beyond it." "And I suppose you let yourself go, eh?" "Let myself go?" "I take it that you made some sort of demonstration?" "Oh, no.
Dams were placed here and there, and sluice-ways conducted the water to its work of turning sundry over-shot wheels which in their turn operated little pumps or moved the machinery of a mill. He made his sisters various mechanical figures which moved to the swinging of a pendulum.
Right so came that lady the huntress, that knew by the dog that she had, that the hind was at the soil in that well; and there she came stiffly and found the hind, and she put a broad arrow in her bow, and shot at the hind, and over-shot the hind; and so by misfortune the arrow smote Sir Launcelot in the thick of the buttock, over the barbs.
When there wasn't no more witnesses to carve up, one lawyer made a speech, an' he set that crooked case so straight, that you could see through it from the over-shot wheel clean back to Brown's grandfather. Then another feller made a speech, and he set the whole thing up another way.
"You talk as if you were in the establishment of a St Malo merchant instead of in the house of a nobleman of Picardy." Claude saw that Cartier had over-shot the mark, and so came to the rescue. "The Sieur de Roberval," he said, "must pardon good Master Cartier.
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