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I quibbled, I evaded, I was very enthusiastic and uncomfortable. 'This of course I have read, I heartily shouted. Swinburne stepped back. 'You have? You have read it? Where? he cried, in evident dismay. Something was wrong. Had I not, I quickly wondered, read this play? 'Oh yes, I shouted, 'I have read it. 'But when?
Pugh." "Tchah!" "What say?" said the walrus. "I said 'Tchah! Colonel." "Why?" said the walrus. "Because His Highness quibbled." The walrus nodded approvingly. "His Highness did nothing of the sort," said John. "Gambling is forbidden in Mervo for the same reason that it is forbidden in England, because it demoralizes the people." "This is absurd, sir.
Purdy, who had discreetly concealed the fact that he was but a poverty-stricken digger himself, quibbled a light evasion, then changed the subject, and offered his escort to the steam-packet by which Miss Sarah was returning to Melbourne. "And you, too, dear Tilly," urged little Polly, proceeding with her farewells. "For, mind, you promised. And I won't forget to ... you know what!"
"We were out for early exercise," prompted Jane significantly, "and don't be too intelligent about that fire when they ask." "'Deef' and dumb," quibbled Dozia. "Thank you for the party, Jane. I had a lov-el-ly time." "Don't mention it," whispered Jane, as the line of students swallowed the two adventurers.
It was obvious that if the annexation were unjust, then the Transvaal should have reverted to the condition in which it was before the annexation, as defined by the Sand River Convention. But the Government for some reason would not go so far as this. They niggled and quibbled and bargained until the State was left as a curious hybrid thing such as the world has never seen.
This he said was due to the great fear which his influence over public opinion in South Africa inspired among those in command there. The big trouble with Rhodes was that he would never own himself in the wrong. He quibbled, he hesitated, he postponed replies to questions submitted for his consideration.
Both rejected it and the consequences flowing from it. Lincoln quibbled when asked to accept it as a rule governing his political conduct. Douglas, by a cunning device, sought to destroy its force as a rule of private right. Lincoln insisted on the essential dishonesty of the juggling trick by which Douglas got rid of the adjudicated law.
"It is by the majesty, by the form of that Justice, that I do conjure and implore Your Lordships to give your minds to this great business; that I exhort you to look, not so much to words, which may be denied or quibbled away, but to the plain facts, to weigh and consider the testimony in your own minds: we know the result must be inevitable. Let the truth appear and our cause is gained.
'No, you didn't, Heriot retorted, quite cool; 'inferentially you did; but you did not use the word permission. 'And you turned upon me impudently, pursued Boddy, whose colour was thunder: 'you quibbled, sir; you prevaricated; you concealed what you were carrying . . . 'Am carrying, Heriot corrected his tense; 'and mean to, in spite of every Boddy, he murmured audibly.
With the whole fabric of Southern life toppling about his ears, Brown argued, quibbled, evaded, and became a rallying-point of disaffection. That more eminent Georgian, Howell Cobb, applied to him very severe language, and they became engaged in a controversy over that provision of the Conscription Act which exempted state officials from military service.
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