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Updated: May 18, 2025
"Grace and I believe in scattering our favors as 'twere. See that hill just ahead of us? What do you bet I make it without changing gears?" "If you make it without changing our looks, I'll be happy," said Grace ruefully, as they bumped and rumbled to the top of the steep grade.
"A fellow down in Chicago told me if I'd come out here to Calumet K and ask Mr. Bannon for a job, he'd give me one." "Are you good up high?" Bannon asked. The man smiled ruefully, and said he was afraid not. "Well, then," returned Bannon, "we'll have to let you in on the ground floor. What's your name?" "James." "Go over to the tool house and get a broom. Give him a check, Max."
Whenever a white man makes up his mind what he's going to do, and puts his brain to work, he beats any man, of any other color. Sure you're going to beat him." "Fat chance I have not to," said Donald, laughing ruefully.
He begged me with tears in his eyes to let him keep it, so what could I do but give them both my blessing and submit meekly to the outrages of the beast? My poor rose vine!" she finished ruefully, looking at the torn twigs and branches which lay on the ground in the ruins of the trellis. Then she suddenly threw back her head and laughed loud and long.
These inquiring creatures had been casting the new-born babe's horoscope through the medium of tea grounds in their blue-china cups, and each agreed that the child's future was full of shame, crime, disgrace, and other equally unpleasant features. "Now that it's a boy," said Lawrence, ruefully, "I 'm willing to believe almost anything.
He pointed to that and to the city visible through the mist a second city, and a third, in other places. He waved his hand vaguely about, then impatiently scribbled over the middle third of the circle and handed it back to Tommy. Tommy grinned ruefully. "A map," he said amusedly. "He's pointed out his own city and a couple of others, and he wants us to tell him where we come from.
Zoe replied, haughtily, "You have no right to say you have a rival; how dare you? Besides," said she, a little ruefully, "it is you who are on your defense, not me." "True; I forgot that. Recrimination is not convenient, is it?" "I can escape it by shutting the window," said Zoe, coldly. "Oh, don't do that.
He wanted to see if he could catch a glimpse of the Yaquis below him. "And I'd give a whole lot of money if I had it to see who is fighting them," thought Floyd. "But I haven't much left." He glanced ruefully down at his now soiled and torn garments. And as he thrust his hands into his pockets he missed many a trinket and possession.
I remembered the Disinherited Knight, the Wandering Jew, Robinson Crusoe, and other poor errants in the wide world, and wondered if any of them ever looked so ruefully as I, when the last wagon of the Grand Army disappeared through the shadow. The tent had been taken down at midnight. I had been dozing in the saddle, with parched lips and throbbing temples, waiting for my comrade.
If it is to be, it must be, and God bless them both, say I, and so will everybody say; but it will be an experiment, a distinct and . . . interesting experiment." "Kate is not to marry any one for my sake, to save Tochty, but I do wish she had fancied Lord Hay," said the General, ruefully.
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