United States or Bolivia ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
"They are all wood, all I have shot. This is a put-up job! It ain't fair." He turned to the young fellow who had taken the pigeons, and who acted as referee. "See here, John," he said, "you ain't going to see me done this way, be you? You know it ain't a fair deal. Albert Dodd's shot clay pigeons, and I've shot wood. It ain't fair."
"When he gets the thing figured out, in six months or a year, and savvies it was a put-up job from the start, somebody'll have it coming." "He can't pulverize the whole bunch, and he'll never wise up to who's the real sinner," Weary comforted himself. "Don't you believe it. Happy doesn't think very often; when he does though, he can ring the bell give him time enough."
You know well in your heart that I love you, and I knew just as little of what your aunt had in mind as you; and so it's not right of you to vent your anger on me." "Ah," said Freneli, "now I begin to see that the whole thing was a put-up job; otherwise you wouldn't excuse yourself before I accused you.
Lincoln was a man of fine feelings, and that, if the occurrence was a put-up job on the lady's part, it accomplished the purpose all the same." This Mrs. Edwards introduced Miss Mary Todd, and she became the belle of the Sangamon bottom.
He says he has lived for years within forty miles of Sevenoaks, and at this late day puts forward his claims. There is nobody in Court, sir. We believe the plaintiff to be a fraud, and this prosecution a put-up job. In saying this, I would by no means impugn the honor of the plaintiff's counsel.
I saw that it was a regular put-up thing, and begged the captain to let me attend to the business, assuring him that I would settle it to his honour and advantage. "Do exactly as you please," he said. Then turning towards the 'vetturino', I ordered him to bring up the captain's luggage, saying that he would be paid at once.
Mary's Lunnon father kep' comin' an' comin' 'carden as he'd drinked out the money Jim gave him; an' each time he'd put-up his price for not takin' Mary away. Jim's mother, she didn't like partin' with no money, an' bein' obliged to write her feelin's on the slate instead o' givin' 'em vent by mouth, she was just about mad. Just about she was mad!
They wished to be charitable but what a family resemblance! "I I I tell you it's a put-up job!" stammered their host. "Who put it up, father?" asked the strange youth plaintively. Lord Kilconquar shook his head, and again the startled company followed his lead.
That voice must be silenced. Her trial in a capitalist court was very farcical. What chance had she in a corporation court with a put-up jury and a corporation tool on the bench? "Every Socialist on the face of the earth is animated by the same principles.
Without waiting for a reply he pointed to a rope and a slab of limestone on the pavement below, and waved his hand unmistakably toward the Mississippi. Miss Russell was of the opinion that Mr. Whipple had once been crossed in love. But we are to speak more particularly of a put-up job, although Stephen did not know this at the time.
Word Of The Day