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Updated: May 4, 2025
We helped the lady side-step some sailors last night and we most got left doing it. It was up to her to make a quick get-away, so we helped her aboard." "A poor story! What was she running away from?" He still addressed the men, ignoring her completely, till, with hoarse voice, she broke in: "You mustn't talk about me that way I can answer your questions. It's true I ran away. I had to.
The chill eyes of Albeen, narrowed to shining slits, focused on Roush menacingly. All present understood that he was offering Devil Dave a choice. He could draw steel, or he could side-step the issue. The campers had been playing poker with white navy beans for chips.
If you can't stand the intellectual strain we'll side-step the show later and play a little what do you call it in the army? pontoons?" They strolled toward the door, Nina's arms linked in theirs, her slim fingers interlocked on her breast.
"If anything more happens" Mrs. Terriberry's voice rose shrill and positive "I shall die!" A lunge in his direction indicated that her demise might take place in Kincaid's arms, but a startled side-step saved him and she sank heavily upon the red plush sofa. Her teeth chattered with a touch of nervous chill and her skin looked mottled. "She choked her! choked her almost to death!
It was rather ponderously clever, I suppose; but I was tired of both verbal quibbling and roadside gallantry. "Do you want to get out of that hole?" I demanded. For it's a law of the prairie-land, of course, never to side-step a stranger in distress. "Not if it means an ending to this interview," he told me. It was my turn to eye him. But there wasn't much warmth in the inspection.
Henry Ward Beecher has intimated in various places in his books how the whole Beecher brood loved their father, yet as precaution against misunderstanding they made the sudden sneak and the quick side-step whenever they saw him coming. Village life with a fair degree of prosperity, but not too much, is an education in itself.
You are equitably, if not legally, in debt to every man in this State who had ever shipped a car-load of freight or paid a passenger fare over your line before the present rate law went into effect. You can shuffle and side-step all you want to, but that is the plain fact of the matter." The vice-president sat up and braced his arms on the edge of the table.
"But, Clara, you must remember that it was as sudden with me as with you. I hardly thought about explaining. And then, I'll be frank, I was afraid if I did tell, you wouldn't have me. I did side-step a bit, that's a fact." "You admit this, and yet you expect me to accept as my husband a man who admits he is a crook!"
The Kid, a white man to the core, exhibited quite a feudal loyalty to the paper which had raised him from the ruck and placed him on the road to eminence. "Say the word," he said, "and I'll call it off. If you feel you need me around here, Mr. Smith, say so, and I'll side-step Eddie." "Comrade Brady," said Smith with enthusiasm, "I have had occasion before to call you sport. I do so again.
She said his children were neglected and starving, his wife worked to the bone, and Dave doing nothing but play on a cheap fiddle! How did they get their bread from day to day? "I told her no one in the wide world had ever been able to answer this puzzle. There was Dave and his wife and five children, all healthy, and eating somehow, and Dave never doing a stroke of work he could side-step.
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