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Updated: May 7, 2025
He kep' Brother Bill out, too, for a right smart spell." Tom was turning the memory pages half-absently. "Let me see," he said. "Didn't I hear something about your whaling the everlasting daylights out of Bledsoe sometime last winter?" Japheth hung his head after the manner of one who has spoiled a good argument by overstating it. "That ther's jest like me," he said disgustedly.
It is not overstating the facts to assert that, had Italy's attitude toward France been less frank and honest, had the Republic not felt safe in stripping its southern border of troops, von Kluck would have broken through to Paris he came perilously near to doing so as it was and the whole course of the war would have been changed.
This would, of course, be overstating the truth of the story, but to such a misinterpretation the plain facts lend themselves too easily.
Her performance was not only successful in the delicacy and refinement which her friends expected of her, but she brought to the work a vivid yet purely feminine force which took them by surprise and made the public her own. No one in the house could have felt, as the Maxwells felt, a certain quality in it which it would be extremely difficult to characterize without overstating it.
The other cloak salesmen I met on the road in those days were mostly representatives of much bigger houses than mine. They treated me with ill-concealed contempt, and I would retaliate by overstating my sales. One of the drummers who were fond of taunting me was an American by birth, a fellow named Loeb "Well, Levinsky," he would begin. "Had a big day, didn't you?"
There are respectable papers, conservative and honorable; but I believe I am not overstating it when I say that every large city has at least one paper where the secrets of a family and its most sacred traditions are treated as lawful game.
Lurida was flushed and panting with the excitement of her new discovery. "I do believe that I have found the secret of our strange visitor's dread of all human intercourse!" The seasoned practitioner was not easily thrown off his balance. "Wait a minute and get your breath," said the doctor. "Are you not a little overstating his peculiarity? It is not quite so bad as that.
"It's Denis O'Meara and Theresa Joyce has made a match of it," said his aunt, conscious that she was slightly overstating facts; "settled up it is on'y this evenin'. And the weddin's bound to be before his lave's out so there's for you."
To this end some of the brightest intellects of the world directed their efforts, but it is hardly overstating the case to say that more than a century passed without any considerable progress toward the development of a dirigible balloon.
It might not turn out so; but I mention it for the sake of fairness, and to avoid overstating the merits of these troops. As to the simple general fact of courage and reliability I think no officer in our camp ever thought of there being any difference between black and white.
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