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Gerard thought that this remark would be a poser for the boatswain; but old Fleming was not so easily defeated. "As to the matter of the compass, do you see, that's what I call an exception to the general rule," he answered, with a serious look.
This was a poser, and for a moment he stared at Jethro, blankly, until he decided how to take it. Then he crossed his legs and blew smoke toward the ceiling. "It is certainly fairer to everybody to take the broadest view of a situation," he remarked; "I am trying to regard this from the aspect of a citizen, and I am quite sure that it will appeal to you in the same light.
"We might have a big freeze around here, and then we'd appreciate window glass." Here was a poser, indeed. "There doesn't seem to be any keyhole, and yet the door is locked," muttered Dick, studying the door. "Hold on! What's this string for?" He took hold of a cord that appeared to run through the wooden barrier. Giving the cord a hard pull, Dick once more pushed against the door.
"It is no concern of yours what I do with myself. I do not intend you to have any voice in the matter. Besides just be good enough to tell me, please! suppose you made up your mind not to allow me, how would you set about it?" This was a poser, and the gentleman was practically obliged to acknowledge it. "I couldn't say off-hand," said he.
When he was first taken in to see the new arrival he exclaimed: "Oh, mamma, it hasn't any teeth! And no hair!" Then, clasping his hands in despair, he cried: "Somebody has done us! It's an old baby." A Poser for the Salesman "It's not so much a durable article that I require, sir," said Miss Simpkins.
"Do you call yourself 'we'!" interjected Harvey, his utterance almost incoherent with anger; "you want to go to school again and get some learnin'." "Get some learnin', d'ye say, Mr Know-all? What has Gladstone done for the sailors, you an' me? That's a poser for you; and look at the money he gave away about the Alabama to the Yankees, instead of fightin' them for it like an Englishman.
She should have gone to some other dentist; the young fellow on the corner, for instance, the poser, the rider of bicycles, the courser of grey-hounds. McTeague began to loathe and to envy this fellow. He spied upon him going in and out of his office, and noted his salmon-pink neckties and his astonishing waistcoats.
I suppose you have discovered that the girls of the Overland Riders are possessed of the usual curiosity of their sex, have you not?" Hi laughed silently. "You've got a poser this time. 'Fraid your curiosity won't be gratified, so far as that map is concerned, but I reckon you'll find so much doing before long that you will forget all about this particular mystery.
"Ah! but how could you have found them again?" inquired Mr. Chalk, with the air of one propounding a poser. "With my map," said the captain, slowly. "Before I left I made a map of the island and got its position from the schooner that picked me up; but I never heard a word from that day to this." "Could you find them now?" said Mr. Chalk. "Why not?" said the captain, with a short laugh.
"Confound the Latin!" grumbled the Sergeant, grabbing his head in his two hands. "Well anyway, here's my night for it. Even the crooks will lie snug in weather like this." And he took a fresh hold on the poser. Suddenly "buzz" went the bell beside him. Before its voice ceased he stood at salute in the door of the Captain's office.
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