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Updated: May 4, 2025
She will avoid responsibility, side-step every duty that calls for honest effort; is untruthful, secretive, indolent and dishonest. "What are you eating?" asks Nora Hebler's husband as she enters the room, not expecting to see him. "Nothing," is the answer, and she hides the box of bonbons behind her, and soon backs out of the room. I think Mr.
I recall that in working with Emil Behnke he used an exercise to raise the soft palate and completely close the channel, yet no one can deny that his pupils had head resonance. There are certain facts in connection with this that are hard to side-step.
Schwandorf halted. His hands remained empty until the captain was within eight feet of him. Then he leaped back, his machete jumped into his fist, and its point stabbed for his antagonist's abdomen. An instantaneous side-step and twist of the body saved the captain from evisceration. The blade ripped through breeches and shirt and scraped the skin.
It makes the cold chills run up and down my back now when I think of it. I don't think there'll be many times in Jimmy's life when he'll come so near death and yet side-step it." "You were pretty close to it yourself, Bob," put in Joe. "Your chances of getting by didn't seem to be worth a plugged nickel.
The animal he rode danced a skittish side-step from time to time. It was impossible to go with sober mien. "It's a good land," said Crowther. "Flowing with milk and honey," laughed Piers, with his eyes on the olive-clothed slopes. "But there's no country like one's own, what?" "No country like England, you mean," said Crowther. "Of course I do, but I was too polite to say so."
In that rage Dave forgot his science as the Hon. Sam expected, and with a bellow he started at Hale like a cave-dweller to bite, tear, and throttle, but the lithe figure before him swayed this way and that like a shadow, and with every side-step a fist crushed on the mountaineer's nose, chin or jaw, until, blinded with blood and fury, Dave staggered aside toward the sergeant with the cry of a madman: "Gimme my gun!
Best of all, he could detect in these messages nothing that was not open and innocent. At their worst they were merely an effort to side-step old Lady Convention; this inclination was so rare in the British, he felt it should be encouraged. Besides, he was inordinately fond of mystery and romance, and these engaging twins hovered always about that column.
No, Comrade Brown, I do not propose to write the whole paper myself. I do not shirk work when it gets me in a corner and I can't side-step, but there are limits. I propose to apply to a few of my late companions of Park Row, bright boys who will be delighted to come across with red-hot stuff for a moderate fee." "And the proprietor of the paper? Won't he make any objection?"
"Do you suppose we'll have any adventures?" "Why, as the little boy said when he spilled the ink on the parlor carpet, 'that remains to be seen. We won't side-step any, you can be sure of that." "There may be danger awaiting us," said Pee-wee. "Well, I only hope it'll wait till we get to it," Roy laughed. "What do you say, kiddo, shall we hit it up for Nyack to-night or camp along the river?"
What health there is in a laugh, what good-natured endurance in the man whose humor enables him to "side-step" disastrous and unnecessary encounters and to love people none the less, even when they provoke inward merriment. The boys' pastor will certainly take life seriously, but he cannot take it somberly.
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