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Updated: June 11, 2025
'You might hold the boat steady for me, he said in a half-stifled voice; then, stepping on to the thwarts, he lost his footing and fell forward, load and all, into the boat. Promptly he struggled to his feet and wiped his forehead, looking around with a self-congratulatory smile. 'There, he said, 'these will be a great improvement to the place. Got them up, roots and all.
He liked, too, to feel himself at a great altitude above the lower world where he had so long and vainly toiled. "Nine thousand feet above sea-level!" he would assure himself in self-congratulatory mood. "When I come to quit, I sha' n't hev fur to go!" which confidence in the direction his spirit was destined to take, may fairly be accepted as indication of a good conscience.
He gave forth a shrill, cold laugh that more than anything else betrayed the real spirit he laughed to hide. This remark was characteristic of Judge Strong. Beneath the surface, his words carried an accusation, a condemnation, a sneer. His manner was the eager, expectant, self-congratulatory manner of a dog that has treed something.
But a moment later, when the two were walking gingerly over the ice to the spot where Eph had drawn his scooter to a standstill, Samuel fell into a self-congratulatory chuckle. "He didn't find out though that I had my reasons fer leavin' home tew. Women-folks, be it only one, hain't good all the time fer nobody.
You will make comparisons. You will recall the self-congratulatory air of the last large audience you had the honour to belong to, sitting in the same seats, buzzing confidently to itself before the lecture began.
"It is your clear-sighted way of putting things," she explained softly. "You seem to understand people so thoroughly." "I don't generally make no mistake about the number of beans in the game," Mr. Moss observed in a self-congratulatory tone. "I can tell a crook from a mug a bit quicker than most." "I have suggested to Mr. Moss, my dear," Mr.
At half-past twelve, their aunt and mother, highly self-congratulatory over the educational morning, voted that enough was as good as a feast, and led their stunned and stupefied charges away to Aunt Victoria's hotel for lunch.
Little had secured a boatman, and the two friends put off to the brigantine full of self-congratulatory chuckles; for, whether Leyden had pulled strings to arrest his assailant or not, the mannikin at the end of the string had as yet shown no signs of jumping.
Several times Cassie had shown signs of giving way, but because she was frail some of the solicitous sisters held her with self-congratulatory care, relieving each other now and then, that each might have a turn in the rejoicings. But as the preacher waded out deeper and deeper into the spiritual stream, Cassie's efforts to make her feelings known became more and more decided.
The crowds who welcomed the successive stages in the development of American transportation were much alike in essentials they were all optimistic, self-congratulatory, irrepressible in their enthusiasm, and undaunted in their outlook.
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