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Updated: May 7, 2025
But true grit's true grit, whether you find it in white or red, and a man what values hisself as a man, is bound to appreciate it whenever its trail crosses his'n." "A sentiment in which I must heartily concur," assented the major. "A brave enemy is always preferable to a cowardly friend. But is this Indian an enemy? To what tribe does he belong?" "Ottaway," was the laconic answer.
To the sick man Carlyle is preferable; not his 'Frederick, of course, and still less his 'Sartor Resartus, which has become a nightmare, without head or tail, but his 'French Revolution. One lies and watches the amazing spectacle without effort, as though it were represented on the stage.
The Japanese, being a high-spirited and patriotic people, consider that death under any circumstances is preferable to dishonour; and the privileged classes always carry about with them when they travel the paraphernalia used at the performance of the 'Hara Kiru, in token of their readiness to prove their patriotism, or to die rather than disgrace their family.
The former disguised no longer their wish to dethrone the king, and either to set up in his place his son the duke of York, whom the surrender of Oxford had delivered into their hands, or, which to many seemed preferable, to substitute a republican for a monarchical form of government. The Scottish commissioners sought to allay the ferment, by diverting the attention of the houses.
I think our present cast-iron stove arrangement is preferable to that, although not up to the old-time kettle." If Margaret had been a reader of the New York Argus, she would have noticed that the facts set forth by her visitor had already appeared in that paper, much elaborated, in an article entitled "Our Daily Bread."
They were, however, sufficiently unanimous, and made up in noisy applause what they wanted in other respects. If the electors and elected of other departments be of the same complexion with those of Arras, the new Assembly will not, in any respect, be preferable to the old one.
"All time is love's time, all places are love's place," he told her, his face close to her own. "And of all time and places the present ever preferable to the wise for life is uncertain and short at best. I bring you worship, and you answer me with scorn. But I shall prevail, and you shall come to love me in very spite of your own self."
'But now, you remember what led me to that. What does a man care for any woman on earth when he is absorbed in contemplation of that kind? 'But it is only one of life's satisfactions. 'I am only maintaining that it is the best, and infinitely preferable to sexual emotion. It leaves, no doubt, no bitterness of any kind. Poverty can't rob me of those memories.
Yet still there was no evidence that to yield were preferable than to die; still, though well-nigh exhausted with their herculean efforts to quench the flames, there was no cessation, no pause, although the very height of the wall prevented success, for they had not the facilities afforded by the engines of the present day.
Anything was preferable to this, and it was with a feeling akin to relief that I added: "I might do so had I not noticed this afternoon that he had gone lame." "Better let de flour go, den, for de snow am too deep and de storm to heavy for you to tramp all de way to town and back again." "No; while I haven't much fear of our starving, yet, if the snow-fall continues, we shall be in a bad way.
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