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He had prayed for strength and cunning; she had prayed for divine intervention. But, after all, Luck was to be the referee. He had told her of his plan; she knew the part she was to play. And if all went well ah, then! He took a strange lesson in the language of Graustark: one sentence, that was all. She had whispered the translation to him and he had grimly repeated it, over and over again.
South Carolina is as deeply concerned as Louisiana, but we have nobody to represent us in Congress and hence have not been invited. South Carolina puts herself in your hands and expects you to secure for her whatever terms are given to Louisiana." So of a sudden I found myself invested with responsibility equally as an agent and a referee.
Taylor about it, and he agreed that when I saw the boy again, I'd have to have it out with him, and he'd stand referee to see that there was no unfair advantage took of me or him. "For," says he, "you can't be called baby darling free and often by them boat boys, and neither can you eel them boat boys and scare their mules.
The smack of the Mexican's fist as it landed the knockout punch sounded like the slap of a paddle on water. "Eight nine you're out!" They carried him to his corner, the Battler on one side, the referee on the other. As through a fog he saw the Mexican dance back to his corner to be received joyously by his seconds. He saw Jack Dempsey looking up at him, nodding his head and smiling.
Huntingdon is full of regrets, and at once offers Campbell and the referee to forego the touchdown, and to scrimmage at the point of tackle. "He would have held me, I know, bar the accident," he says. The referee is willing, but Campbell will not hear of it. "Put off a man," he says shortly, "and go on with the game."
"Well, I'm glad you have such a clear idea of things," grimly returned Dorothy. "Kindly pass it on. I'm not saying that vindictively, either. I want everybody I know to understand that I consider this an unfair decision and that I absolutely refuse to countenance it. Miss Brown recently asked me to act as referee in the games this year. I accepted.
Outside this ring an outer one was pitched, eight feet separating the two. The inner was for the combatants and for their seconds, while in the outer there were places for the referee, the timekeeper, the backers, and a few select and fortunate individuals, of whom, through being in my uncle's company, I was one.
Taylor in her smart chocolate-coloured trap, behind her chocolate-coloured mare, with her groom in chocolate-coloured livery on the seat behind her. She intended to buy a car if she won her case at the High Court for to the High Court it had gone, both the Commissioners and their referee having shown themselves blind to the claims of justice.
The principal terms which were finally accepted by the Khan and his tribal chiefs were, that their foreign policy was to be under our guidance, and we were also to be the referee in case of internal disputes; that the commerce of the Bolam was to be opened and protected, the annual subsidy hitherto granted to the Khan of 5,000l. being doubled to cover the necessary expenditure; and, finally, that a British Agent with a suitable contingent should be established at Quetta.
And the referee was droning out the count again. " Five six seven " Head sagging between his arms, eyes staring and sightless, The Pilgrim groped out and found the ropes. Once more at the end of the toll he lifted himself lifted himself by the strength of his shoulders to his legs that tottered beneath him, and then stepped free of the ropes.
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