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At this they shrugged their shoulders and said: "It is a bad system!" "And by what are yours?" said I. At this the gravest and oldest of them, looking as it were far away with his eyes, answered: "By the name of our country and a wholesome terror of the people." "Your system," said I, shrugging my shoulders in turn, but a little awkwardly, "is different from ours."
Then shrugging his shoulders, he said carelessly: "I'm not the man to get in other men's way, and you know it, Carson. But you might tell your friend Bud Lee that Bayne Trevors is rather a big man influentially to mix things with. I've just resigned this morning and Trevors is our new president." "Thanks," returned Carson dryly. "I don't think that'll make much difference though, Melvin.
The contact, instead of warming, chilled me inexplicably. Instead of belief, I discovered scepticism; instead of enthusiasm, persiflage and eternal quizzing, intolerable in professed martyrs to a sacred cause. "Que voulez-vous?" they said, shrugging their shoulders at my indignant remonstrances. "The ass who carries all his panniers on the same side stumbles on his own nose.
They want a man of whom they can be proud, a man who is doing something interesting and doing it well." "I doubt that," replied Segur shrugging his shoulders. "When a woman loves a man, she wants to absorb him." Howard soon went away to his rooms for a long evening of undisturbed thought about Teddy Danvers's fiancee the first temptation that had entered his loneliness since Alice died.
The pandour chieftain Trenck soon became so rich, that he excited the envy of the noblest and wealthiest men in the kingdom, so rich that he was able to lend large sums of money to the powerful and influential Baron Lowenwalde. You see, baron, it only needs a determined will to become rich." "Oh! the foolish man," said Weingarten, shrugging his shoulders.
"I mean to say," replied Paganel, "that the word AUSTRAL that occurs in the document is not a complete word, as we have supposed up till now, but just the root of the word AUSTRALIE." "Well, that would be strange," said the Major. "Strange!" repeated Glenarvan, shrugging his shoulders; "it is simply impossible." "Impossible?" returned Paganel. "That is a word we don't allow in France."
"You should be that telepathic for your exams. Why didn't you read my thoughts when I beat my brains out trying to explain that thrust problem the other night?" He turned to Tom, shrugging his shoulders in mock despair. "Honestly, Tom, if I didn't know that he was the best power jockey in the Academy, I'd say he was the dumbest thing to leave Venus, including the dinosaurs in the Academy Zoo!"
Your will may be good, but how little it can accomplish has unfortunately been proved." Shrugging his shoulders wearily as he spoke, he nodded a farewell and left the house. Four bearers were waiting outside with the sedan-chair, three servants with torches, and two stout attendants carrying clubs over their shoulders.
"It is the fortune of war," answered the skipper, shrugging his shoulders; "I only wish the war had come to an end." The operation did not take long; the unfortunate skipper and his crew were landed, to make their way home as best they could; when the vessel, being set on fire, drifted on to the bank, where she quickly burnt to the water's edge.
The perplexed General looked after her for a moment, pulling his grizzled moustache. "Caramba!" he muttered. "To understand these feminines? Decidedly, this charming child must be sent into safety to-morrow." And shaking his head and shrugging his shoulders, he strode in the direction of the firing. Ten minutes' sharp fighting, and the skirmish was over.
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