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Be this as it may, it is also possible that if the U-boat campaign had been prosecuted resolutely, and without any shilly-shallying a thing I never wished we should not have suffered so complete a collapse from the military, economic, political and moral point of view, as we must otherwise have done.
"Oh, you're not satisfactory not at all satisfactory. Are you still shilly-shallying? What is the matter with young people?" cried the veteran of twenty-nine. "Or was it that wretched Janey, rushing in, like a cow in a conservatory? She's a regular school-girl!" "It isn't that exactly, or at least that's not all. I hope I think she does care for me, or will care for me, a little."
It was, I think, the contemplation of these gentlemen, even more perhaps than my saddening knowledge of their shifty, time-serving, shilly-shallying, or glaringly unscrupulous leaders and masters, that finally disgusted me with those branches of political work which were open to me. I have no wish to sit in judgment.
Keegan on the lands of Ballycloran, right or wrong. Wid that there war a dale of shilly-shallying but at last the masther said as how he would jine the boys in ridding the counthry of the Captain, and he thin agreed to come down to the Widdy's the next night, or that afther, to get the secret signs and the pass-words, and to take the oaths they war to swear him to.
When nevertheless the Elector continued to resort to shilly-shallying and all sorts of ambiguous tactics, Gustavus lost his patience, marched his army to the gates of Berlin, and compelled him to make his choice of party once, for all.
Bartley and I shall quarrel, and he will refuse me Mary; and if I go abroad again I shall get knocked on the head, or else Mary will pine away again, and Bartley will send her to Madeira, and we shall lose our happiness, as all shilly-shallying fools do." Mrs. Easton made no reply to this, though she listened attentively to it.
"We were ordered not to go out of sight of the boat, and unless we do the arguardiente cannot be got." "Oh, this is all shilly-shallying humbug!" exclaimed Brown angrily. "Come, a couple of you, with me, and we'll have the liquor, and be back in a jiffy." "Remember, Brown, if you do, and I am asked, I'll speak the truth, I'll warn you," said Ben undauntedly.
"Yes, I know," Susan said quickly, wishing that some full and intelligent answer would suggest itself to her. "And finally," Ella said, quite ready to go downstairs for an informal game of cards, but not quite willing to leave the matter here. "Finally, I must say, Sue, that I think this shilly-shallying is very very unbecoming.
I haven't very much time, you know, for any more shilly-shallying! I want some action out of you " She faced him flushed and menacing, and he took her hand and said: "You'll get it. Where's your telephone!" "Right there in the hall!" "I'll call up Dwight." "Wait! Is he married?" "No." "Thank God!"
"What answer has she made you?" she asked. "None; as yet! She has told me to come again another day." "I like her better for that." "Why should you like her better? Just because you're a woman, and think that shilly-shallying and pretending not to know your own mind, and keeping a fellow in suspense, is becoming.
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