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"Who puts you in?" This was another poser for even Flibbertigibbet's quick wits. "Wot does she mane?" Freckles demanded anxiously. "I dunno; anyhow, I'll tell her the sisters." "The sisters," was the word that went across the street. "Oh, how nice! Do you say your prayers to them too?" Freckles groaned. "Wot yer goin' to tell her now?"
Now Vernon Wycherley, who had been for some short time turning the matter over in his mind, began to fancy he had found a poser for his fellow-traveller, to whom he remarked, that however fortunate they might consider themselves when they got out of their present difficulties, there could be no possible advantage whatever in their having gotten into them.
It was the Squire's custom, when one of the smaller scholars or poorer spellers rose to spell against the master, to give out eight or ten easy words, that they might have some breathing-spell before being slaughtered, and then to give a poser or two which soon settled them. He let them run a little, as a cat does a doomed mouse.
"Well, you'll never get married if you are a teacher," said Sally May with finality; "at any rate, not for ages and ages." "Why not?" said Judy. This was a poser. "W-e-l-l you'd have to learn so much, you see." Judith laughed. "I hadn't thought of that, but I thought you were going to be an artist," she added teasingly.
He knows it, Conrad Lagrange knows it, Jim Rutlidge knows it, the whole damned clique and gang of you know it, He's like all his kind, a pretender, a poser, playing into the hands of such women as you; to win social position and wealth.
Here there was a brief lull in the conversation, and, even as I was trying to think of a poser for Mr. Jellicoe, that gentleman took the opportunity to change the subject. "Are you going to the Egyptian Rooms?" he asked. "No," replied Miss Bellingham; "we are going to look at the pottery." "Ancient or modern?"
Of course any one could have gone to the trenches, and been momentarily seen here and there, and could have done so fairly safely and easily by simply walking straight up, taking advantage of what little cover there was; but to get right up without showing at all, was rather a poser, as all cover ceased about a hundred yards behind the trenches. The idea of trying attracted me.
"I say, Misther Kavanagh," said the strange master, "what angle does Dick's heel form in the second step of the treble, from the kibe on the left foot to the corner of the door forninst him?" To this mathematical poser Mat made no reply, only sang the tune with redoubled loudness and strength, whilst little Dicky pounded the old crazy door with all his skill and alacrity.
For, to have the existence of an illegitimate son of your oldest and dearest friend thus suddenly thrust upon you, and that by a young lady of the dearest friend's family, is, to say the least of it, a considerable poser for any man. It may be noted as characteristic of Carteret that, without hesitation, he recognized the sincerity and fine spirit of Faircloth's letter.
The two facts were these of Canada's agricultural exports eighty per cent. went to Great Britain. In spite of Canada spending a billion on her transportation system, look at the fact well it is a poser only from thirty-two to forty per cent. of her export trade went out by Canadian routing. Why was that?
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