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He was very anxious to show how detached he was personally. Made jokes about its 'coming off' like a boot...." "Stop a minute to see if I understand.... Oh yes I see. 'If there was anything afoot. Of course. Go on." "It was a poor quip, and failed of its purpose. His relief was too palpable when I disallowed Mrs. Bailey.... By-the-by, that's a rum thing, Miss Dickenson, that way young men have.
It was perhaps to take the edge off this quip quarrelsome that the following amusing lines were addressed in the next month to his nieces, giving them particulars about animal and vegetables foods in Russia. "The country," he said, "has no veal I mean eatable veal, for cows produce calves here as well as elsewhere; but these calves are of Republican leanness.
She did not care to go to the theatre, of which Martha was very fond, unless serious dramas were performed. We, on the contrary, liked farces. I still remember a political quip which was frequently repeated at the Konigstadt Theatre, and whose point was a jeer at the aspirations of the revolution: "Property is theft, or a Dream of a Red Republican."
From somewhere deep in his memory an old quip came floating to the surface: "An executive is a man who picks brains others' brains." By that definition Alexander was an executive of the first class. Alexander chuckled. Suddenly Kennon wanted to run. Panic flooded him! What had he been thinking about?
"Yes, yer honor, I'm comin' to that," defended Sandy. "She ran first after a boy, then after a girl, and I seen the package go through the air " "Flyin'? Had it wings or was it a toy balloon?" Chief Hadfield was not a man to disappoint his audience, and the laugh that thanked him for this quip set Sandy twirling and chewing more vigorously than ever.
They were as proud of Chicago as New Yorkers were of London! And the quip ran from mouth to mouth across the continent.
I think this quip would leave us cold. The 'Isles of Greece' seem rather tawdry too; but on the 'Address to the Ocean, or on 'The Dying Gladiator, 'time has writ no wrinkle. 'Tis the morn, but dim and dark, Whither flies the silent lark?
Their departure had been so recent that they were still fresh and inclined to jest, and whoever caught sight of the convicts, flung them, in the Egyptian fashion, a caustic quip which many sought to palliate by the gift of alms. Others, who said nothing, also sent by the ass-drivers fruit and trifling gifts; for those who were free to-day might share the fate of these hapless men to-morrow.
I have sacrificed the inviolable sanctuary of the Hollow Needle, I have sacrificed my treasures, my power, my pride I will sacrifice everything I don't want to be anything more but just a man in love and an honest man, because she can only love an honest man. After all, why should I not be honest? It is no more degrading than anything else!" The quip escaped him, so to speak, unawares.
They spread off to one side with jest and quip, with flash of bottle and slap on shoulder. The populace thinned a bit from the steps.... And then suddenly as a pistol shot Cleve Whitmore's voice rang out like a clarion. "Wylackie!" it pealed across the subdued noises, "You hell hound. Turn round!" There was death in it. The gun man whirled, drawing like lightning.
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