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It would have been nothing unusual if I had." "In that case," he said, slowly, "you can't be surprised " "I'm not," she hastened to say. "If Mrs. Bayford retaliates, now that she has the power, she's within her right a right which scarcely any woman would forego. It was perfectly natural for Mrs. Bayford to speak ill of me; and it was equally natural for you to spring to my defence.
Fond parent accuses uncle of having set dog on uncle, indignant, reviles fond parent exasperated fond parent attacks uncle uncle retaliates with umbrella faithful dog comes to assistance of uncle, and inflicts great injury on fond parent arrival of police dog attacks police uncle and fond parent both taken into custody uncle fined five pounds and costs for keeping a ferocious dog at large uncle fined five pounds and costs for assault on fond parent uncle fined five pounds and cost for assault on police!
Simpkins considers Timotheus a prodigy, and seems to feel contempt for his elder son, Joel, who as he expressed it, 'ain't intellectooal like Timotheus, and Joel usually retaliates by saying, 'It's lucky one son er the Simpkins family has got jest plain common sense.
"It does, on the condition that they shall prophesy buttery things. When it comes to hard things, if they ask for bread the world retaliates and offers them a stone. And that stone, I need not tell you, has no butter on it." "I see. You were afraid. You haven't the courage of your opinion." "And I haven't much opinion of my courage. I own to being afraid."
The legislators would lengthen the skirts to protect the defenceless male from a chance thought of legs and the like. Whereat the flapper retaliates by conversing pretty ceaselessly about well, say associated subjects. Last season the writer, being of the genus Successfully Single, woke up with a start to realize that two desirables had toyed with her hook and retreated.
He is driven from his hunting-grounds and retaliates by slaughtering the invading cattle. What steps is the white pioneer, who may have no more than one companion, to take to protect his own? If he quietly submits his herd will be wiped out, and he and his mate afterwards. By inspiring fear alone is he able to hold his position.
But the most contemptible and most wicked course of conduct is for a nation to use offensive language or be guilty of offensive actions toward other people and yet fail to hold its own if the other nation retaliates; and it is almost as bad to undertake responsibilities and then not fulfil them.
For example, if someone oppresses, injures and wrongs another, and the wronged man retaliates, this is vengeance and is censurable. If the son of ‘Amr kills the son of Zayd, Zayd has not the right to kill the son of ‘Amr; if he does so, this is vengeance. If ‘Amr dishonors Zayd, the latter has not the right to dishonor ‘Amr; if he does so, this is vengeance, and it is very reprehensible.
And so, I make what you call 'sugar-candy dolls, because I very potently believe that all of us are sweet at heart. Oh no! men lack an innate aptitude for sinning; and at worst, we frenziedly attempt our misdemeanors just as a sheep retaliates on its pursuers. This much, at least, has Judith taught me." The woman murmured: "Eh, you are luckier than I. I had a son.
If he is paid by the day, bearing this in mind, he retaliates by doing as little work as possible. Hence labourers are almost always paid by the job. A Hindu wood-merchant took a contract for clearing a large tract of forest land some miles beyond the Yerandawana settlement.
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