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Gulpidge, firmly. 'The next in reversion you understand me? 'K., said Mr. Spiker, with an ominous look. K. then positively refused to sign. He was attended at Newmarket for that purpose, and he point-blank refused to do it. Mr. Spiker was so interested, that he became quite stony. 'So the matter rests at this hour, said Mr. Gulpidge, throwing himself back in his chair.
Fogg proposed to the Indian to hire Kiouni, he refused point-blank. Mr. Fogg persisted, offering the excessive sum of ten pounds an hour for the loan of the beast to Allahabad. Refused. Twenty pounds? Refused also. Forty pounds? Still refused. Passepartout jumped at each advance; but the Indian declined to be tempted.
It was a sudden change of expression in the prisoner's face, detected by these means, and caused by a sudden point-blank question, that led to the discovery of the crime committed by Castaing at the very moment when, after a long consultation with the public prosecutor, the magistrate was about to let the criminal loose on society for lack of evidence.
"Not until I've cleaned out two more pups, anyway! Now, look here, Kate," he went on, "you may be fooling about this marrying, but you can bet I'm not." "Well, you can bet I'm not," she returned, echoing his pert slang sharply. "Who's the man?" He flung the question at her point-blank. If she flushed the least bit it was with anger at his rudeness.
The man who would fire sees himself already killed by the return fire. He throws stones, and not with great force, to avoid using his rifle, to distract the enemy, to occupy the time, until flight offers him some chance of escaping at point-blank range. This agreeable state of affairs did not last long, a minute perhaps.
She is too beautiful to remain unknown to you particularly if her husband is, as they tell me, in your service. I asked her to give me his name, but she refused it point-blank.
But you might be in worse hands; the man has a character for liberality." "Did your father mention to you my circumstances, and the reason that brings me to Paris?" "Since you put the question point-blank, my dear cousin, he did." "He told you how poor I am, and how keen must be my lifelong struggle to keep Rochebriant as the home of my race?"
The thought in him was: 'But that I had some faith in my wife, and don't admire the devil sufficiently, I would accuse him point-blank, for, by Bacchus! you are as clever as he. It is a point in the education of parents that they should learn to apprehend humbly the compliment of being outwitted by their own offspring.
Each missile, fired point-blank, did its work, and the huge monsters, unable to seize the agile hunters, as they eluded their ponderous charge, received the fatal shot at such close range that the fur around the wound was often scorched by the burning powder.
Now you must know the Bailie's greatest horror is an armed Highlander, or a loaded gun; and there he stands, listening to the Baron's instructions concerning the protest; ducking his head like a sea-gull at the report of every gun and pistol that our idle boys are firing upon the fields; and undergoing, by way of penance, at every symptom of flinching, a severe rebuke from his patron, who would not admit the discharge of a whole battery of cannon, within point-blank distance, as an apology for neglecting a discourse, in which the honour of his family is interested.
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