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Makely, as our little group halted indecisively about her. "With all those imaginary commonwealths to draw upon, from Plato, through More, Bacon, and Campanella, down to Bellamy and Morris, he has constructed the shakiest effigy ever made of old clothes stuffed with straw," said the professor. The manufacturer was silent. The banker said: "I don't know.
I could see that what was upmost in his mind was the fact that I had read 'Negations. His pale eyes had for the first time gleamed. I felt as one who is about to be examined, viva voce, on the very subject in which he is shakiest. I hastily asked him how soon his poems were to be published. 'Next week, he told me. 'And are they to be published without a title? 'No. I found a title, at last.
"But I shall be surprised if the old lady stays long, or sees many people. Her health is of the shakiest, and London life would be a dangerous experiment, I should say. I don't at all know why she's coming, unless it is to see doctors." "Oh, I do hope she'll be careful," panted Iris. "What a terrible thing it would be if she died suddenly terrible for you, I mean.
The suggestion being universally approved, a stormy half-hour followed, when each of the five O'Shaughnessys harangued the others concerning the superiority of his or her own plan of decoration, and precious lives were imperilled on the oldest and shakiest of step-ladders.
His pale eyes had for the first time gleamed. I felt as one who is about to be examined viva voce on the very subject in which he is shakiest. I hastily asked him how soon his poems were to be published. "Next week," he told me. "And are they to be published without a title?" "No. I found a title at last. But I sha'n't tell you what it is," as though I had been so impertinent as to inquire.
Still less can I impart a notion of the exhaustive raking up of ancient examples and modern instances, mostly worn bright by familiarity with the popular mind, but all converging toward the conclusion striven for, and the shakiest of them accepted in childlike faith.
"The Deef Woman has a brief pow-wow with him alone over at the O. K. House, followin' of which the Major appears the whitiest an' the shakiest I ever beholds him the last bein' some strong as a statement an' after beggin' a drink at the Red Light, p'ints out afoot for Red Dog, an' is seen no more.
Her grammar, lexicon and text-book occupied most of the table, but Robbie did not complain. She could manage very well by laying her books, one on the open face of another, in her lap. For once she was grateful that an ENGAGED sign shielded them from interruptions, for Latin was her shakiest subject, especially the rules of indirect discourse.
For Thomas Jefferson was one of his parishioners. "Well, she was laughing at him in the shakiest, hungriest little voice you ever heard. 'Is it good? she says. 'It LOOKS good. He was eating raw corn. 'If I could, I'd eat supper with you when you're VERY hungry, you don't mind eating things raw. Then she saw me." "Well?" "Well, I coaxed her, Robert. It didn't do any good.
It would be much more sensible to think of marriage as solid meadow-land after your present scramble over a shaky what-d'ye-call it." "True for you! I give you the stage as the shakiest of all scraws. But where is solid footing to be found? The world itself is only a vast bog that sucks in the generations." "I am sorry I asked you to be serious," he said glumly.
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