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You take lively, full-muscled animals, and they are always bucking and quarreling trying to see which one is the best. Take two young, fat steers they'll lock horns at the drop of a hat. It's animal spirits, Nan. They feel that they've got to let off steam. Where muscle and pluck count for what they do in the lumber camps, there's bound to be more or less ructions."
There had been, he said, nothing but "ructions" at home about her for the last three weeks. Everybody in the family was heartily sick of quarrelling. His governor had charged him to bring her to this address and say that the lady and gentleman were quite welcome to all there was in it. She hadn't enough sense to appreciate a plain, honest English home and she was better out of it.
She doesn't like ructions hay, and all that. So I keep myself pretty close." "Quite right," said the Judge. "I know," Lancelot said, dreamily, and then with great briskness, "Beastly grind, all the same." The Judge had a fit of coughing, and Urquhart got up and looked about. Then the Judge said that he too should catch it if he didn't go back and make himself polite.
"I say, guv'nor's put his foot through them steps from painting-shop and sprained his ankle. Look out for ructions, eh? Thank the Lord it's a half-day!" and then whipped back to his own room.
You know a livestock squabble can cause more ructions in a small community than " "I see," mused the Master, staring glumly after Lad who was just vanishing into the house in the wake of the Mistress and the unhappy Mrs. Harmon. "I see. H'm!" He pondered for an instant, while his host shifted from foot to foot and looked apologetic. Then the Master spoke again.
There has come no answer to that letter I wrote to my father in Rome. Commodus's informers may have intercepted it." Norbanus whistled softly. The skewbald Cappadocian mistook that for a signal to exert himself and for a minute there were ructions while his master reined him in. "When did you write?" he demanded, when he had the horse under control again. "A month ago."
"I thought mebbe it was a bear or a tager comin' out ob de woods, fo' one nebber knows what to 'spect next in dis place." "I am sorry I frightened you, Mammy," the girl smilingly replied, "And it was too bad that I interrupted you in your interesting talk about 'everlasting fire, 'ructions, and 'King George. You seem to be in a fighting mood."
His one chance, actually. The poor devil! Kitty had the right idea. It was a mighty fine thing, these times, to be a citizen under the protection of the American doctrine. Three hundred thousand! And Karlov had got that along with the drums. The devil's own for luck! The fool would be able to start some fine ructions with all that capital behind him. Episodes in the night.
Jimmy considered the conical, fowl-like profile with a queer kind of interest; he was leaning out of his bunk with the calculating, uncertain expression of a man who reflects how best to lay hold of some strange creature that looks as though it could sting or bite. But he said only: "The mate will miss you and there will be ructions." Donkin got up to go.
And so I knew that my mother's approval had reached the point of enthusiasm. It was not for days not until I expressed a preference for dust under the bookcase with quiet, against purity and ructions that the dear old lady perceived traces of the Munros. The time originally fixed for the wedding was six months after this; but we gradually whittled it down to five and to four.
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