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Nor neither will nobody else when they see them mares fade away in the home stretch; nope, neither will nobody else." In this reference to over-wise Easterners there was a direct thrust at the girl, but she accepted it with a smile. "Don't you think they'll last for the mile and a quarter, Mr. Corson?" "Think? I don't think. I know! Picture hosses like them well, they'd ought to be left in books.
If any over-wise philosopher should attempt to remove them, the chances are that he would have more broken bones than thanks for his interference.
His conception of relations is everywhere dreadfully jejune and destitute of imagination: his contemptuous and over-wise mode of treating religious matters is altogether offensive.
Upon putting all these things together, it was resolved by these over-wise politicians that the best thing that could be done for Hereford, and the only possible means of preventing the immediate destruction of its cathedral, would be to take Mr. O'Neill into custody. Upon recollection, however, it was perceived that there was no legal ground on which he could be attacked.
The maid, concluding that her mistress was not yet returned to her senses, answered, "Why, 'tis my master, madam. Heaven preserve your senses, madam! Lord, sir, my mistress must be very bad not to know you!" What Atkinson thought at this instant, I will not say; but certain it is he looked not over-wise. He attempted twice to take hold of Mrs.
"Look here, Juliet," said Dorothy: "there must be some way out of it, or there is no saving God in the universe. Now don't begin to say there isn't, because, you see, it is your only chance. It would be a pity to make a fool of yourself by being over-wise, to lose every thing by taking it for granted there is no God.
He would have laid down life with content, nay, rapture, as the price of learning those solemn secrets which separated the stranger from mankind.. Such fools are we when we aspire to be over-wise! To be enamoured too madly of the goddess of goddesses is only to embrace a cloud, and to forfeit alike heaven and earth.
So if ye have a secret mind it well; and don't ye be letting it loose to scare the two of us into over-wise, conventional folk. We'll play Willie Shakespeare comedy to the end of the road please God!" "Amen!" agreed the tinker, devoutly, as he threw her portion of fried eggs neatly out of the pan into her plate.
To Joe, weakly and timorous and not over-wise, his valiant, handsome, good-natured soldier cousin had come as the most splendid apparition that had shined upon him in the dim course of his fifteen years; and he had spent the past three months in adoring it very devoutly.
But there might be such a thing as a man's soul being loose from his body, and going out and in, like a bird out of its nest and back; and that was how folks got over-wise, for they went to school in this shell-less state to those who could teach them more than their neighbours could learn with their five senses and the parson.
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