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It would be a set-back to the cult of boxing at the school. Mr Spence was pondering over this unfortunate state of things when Sheen was shown in. "Can I speak to you for a minute, sir?" said Sheen. "Certainly, Sheen. Take one of those cig I mean, sit down. What is it?" Sheen had decided how to open the interview before knocking at the door. He came to the point at once.
More knowledge, however, of the history of surgery has given a serious set-back to this self-complacency, and now we know that the later medieval surgeons understood practical antisepsis very well, and applied it successfully.
"A set-back, a sharp set-back," said Lord Windlehurst, in the Peers' Gallery, as the cheers of the Opposition and of a good number of ministerialists sounded through the Chamber. There were those on the Treasury Bench who saw danger ahead.
Raimbault, the surgeon from the chateau who came to see me every day. According to him, I was a patient in a hundred, in a thousand; he never wearied of admiring my constitution, which he described by the various French equivalents of "as hard as nails." Not a set-back attended the course of my recovery.
He came near to worse things than harsh words. Be warned, my son. It is a terrible set-back from right living to come of a hot-blooded breed like these Wynnes." I looked up at Mm as he spoke. He was smiling, "But not all bad, Hugh, not all bad. Remember that it is something, in this nest of disloyal traders, to have come of gentle blood."
"Well," he began again, with an attempt at jauntiness, "I've found out that in my profession it's a hard struggle to get on your feet again, after illness or or any bad set-back. That's the reason I asked you to say a word for me. It's not only the money, though I need that badly I want to get back my self-respect.
Yet Higli had a conviction that Nahoum's alliance with David was a sham, and that David would pay the price of misplaced confidence one day. More than once when David's plans had had a set-back, Higli had contrived a meeting with Nahoum, to judge for himself the true position.
I imagine he got a good deal of fun out of my brother while he stayed in Cairo. "And so, you see, my successful brother had experienced a serious set-back. I had a grim feeling that the women, 'our women, as he had called them, would feel it far more in their seclusion in Surbiton than he would in his seclusion in wherever he was.
If you get a set-back, why the Funds are at eighty, and I could sell two thousand francs worth of my consolidated stock. But take care, my lad; for if you have to come upon me, it will be your daughter's fortune that you will take." "Ah! my uncle, how simply you say things! You touch my heart." "General Foy was touching mine in quite another fashion just now.
Although the two men were pleased at the remote chance of catching the steamer, their ardor received a serious set-back when the trader came in with the head man of the village and a handful of hunters, for Emerson found that money was quite powerless to tempt them.
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