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Updated: May 18, 2025
It is a strange fact to note that when a herd is on the trail there is always a particular steer which, day after day and week after week, occupies a self-assigned position at the head of the herd, and is therefore called the "lead steer."
Still more, he wanted to escape standing as a critic outside the activities of men, stiffened into the ridiculous attitude of self-assigned superiority.
Radley, who, with indifferent success, was filling the self-assigned roll of moderator of the little assemblage. "Nothing settled by the meeting?" said Mr. Buffle, echoing a despondent suggestion by Deacon Bates. "Of course not. You don't suppose that what theologians have been squabbling over for two thousand years can be settled in a day, do you?
It was with such hasty equipment that I approached my self-assigned task, to show how the control of the sea, commercial and military, had been an object powerful to influence the policies of nations; and equally a mighty factor in the success or failure of those policies.
He quitted the hut, on the spot, and immediately set about this self-assigned duty. "Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand." Curiosity induced me to follow the Indian, in order to watch his movements.
The latter, though written in Hebrew, was really intended exclusively for the Gentile world, as the former had been mainly for the Jewish world. It is a continuation, but not yet a conclusion, of the self-assigned task of Levinsohn. The Talmud, we have seen, was at that time the object of assaults of zealous Christians and disloyal Jews, and hostile works against Judaism were the order of the day.
Sergeant Marigold, when not occupied in the mild labour of filling glasses, stood like a guardian ramrod behind my chair a self-assigned post to which he stuck grimly like a sentinel. As I always sat with my back to the fire there must have been times when, the blaze roaring more fiercely than usual up the chimney, he must have suffered martyrdom in his hinder parts.
As though women understood anything about politics! Bah, my poor girl, if you were to steer the bark we should very soon be shipwrecked." Felicite bit her lip. She had gone too far and forgotten her self-assigned part of good, silent fairy. Then she was seized with one of those fits of covert exasperation, which she generally experienced when her husband tried to crush her with his superiority.
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