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The whole thing was too rubbishy and cheaply and roughly made to have been fit for use as a 'kid's toy, as the subaltern called it. To imagine it being used as a weapon of precision in a war distinguished above all others as one of scientifically perfect weapons and implements was ridiculous beyond words. The Colonel watched the business of loading and laying with amazement and consternation.
You surely have not begun to quarrel already?" "Oh, no," answered No. 6, with her nose flattened against the window- pane. "But please, Aunt Judy, No. 8 won't have the oyster-shell trimming round his garden any longer, he says; he says it looks so rubbishy.
Trust a woman for finding out a way when love's hanging on it." "Love?" rapped out Lavinia sharply. "Aye, it's love as is taking you to Twitenham with the young man's rubbishy play." "You've not read it, Hannah. It's not fair to call it rubbishy." "Not read it, no, nor never shall, and may be I'll never see it acted either. But I hope it will be, Lavinia, for your sake.
They've put a lot of rubbishy locks into this ship, I must say." Captain MacWhirr closed his eyes. He did so to rest himself. He was tired, and he experienced that state of mental vacuity which comes at the end of an exhaustive discussion that has liberated some belief matured in the course of meditative years.
The best modern plays and poetry began to appear on shelves whence rubbishy novels of a past generation were removed to make room for them. Nor were older books neglected. The general drift of interest was inevitably towards the moderns; but the great poets of the past were also finding their way in before the end came.
"Dance a hornpipe," cut in Fred, as Jo paused for breath, "and, as they danced, the rubbishy old castle turned to a man-of-war in full sail. 'Up with the jib, reef the tops'l halliards, helm hard alee, and man the guns! roared the captain, as a Portuguese pirate hove in sight, with a flag black as ink flying from her foremast.
That is the conclusion to which the court is asked to come upon these two rubbishy pieces of paper one signed 'George P, and the other 'George Guelph. I believe them to be gross and rank forgeries.
I had been a private secretary, a silver miner and a silver mill operative, and amounted to less than nothing in each, and now What to do next? I yielded to Higbie's appeals and consented to try the mining once more. We climbed far up on the mountain side and went to work on a little rubbishy claim of ours that had a shaft on it eight feet deep.
But, while traces of this failing may be detected here and there by the watchful reader, as Nelson himself gleaned useful indications amid the rubbishy mass of captured correspondence, there survives, among the remains left by those in daily contact with him, only the record of a frank, open bearing, and unfailing active kindness. "Setting aside his heroism," wrote Dr.
Our side soon got the upper hand, and all danger of the town being rushed seemed over. Meanwhile, within the town, the Italians did all they could to create a panic. They built rubbishy barricades, and annoyed me by making one across the street near the hotel door. I pulled it down so as to be able to get in and out easily. The officer was very angry.
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