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Updated: May 9, 2025
"I do not approve of you working on the night staff. I must ask you not to refer to this matter again. We will not discuss it now, please." "Allow me to give you another cup of cocoa, Mr. McAllister?" "Thank you, but I must be getting along," said McAllister, glancing hurriedly at his watch. "I have stayed later than I intended, thanks to the side-tracking of yon railroad president."
It was such an evident cul-de-sac that there was nothing for it but to turn back. When they again reached the stiles they found Geraldine sitting upon the right-hand one. Her expression was thundery, and her greeting the reverse of cordial. "Where have you been, you two stupids? Why can't you keep up with the rest of us instead of side-tracking like this?
Bisset's passion for expounding the principles of their professions sometimes exceeding his tact. He might have been in the thirties or he might have been in the fifties. "With regard to these ladies' bicycles, miss " he began with a lecturer's air. But by this time Cicely was also an expert in side-tracking her friend's theoretical essays. "Oh, how clever of you!" she exclaimed rapturously.
Don Miguel continued: "Then we have that asinine chatter about 'America, the land of fair play. In theory yes. In actual practice not always. You didn't accumulate your present assets, Mr. Parker, without taking an occasional chance on side-tracking equity when you thought you could beat the case.
Come, now no side-tracking." She had sunk down on the chair, her fingers tightly interlocked, his words stunning her like blows. Their full meaning she missed in her dazed condition. All she knew was that, in some way, she must defend herself. "Mr. Mangan, will you please listen to me? I have not pawned it, and I would never dream of doing such a thing.
A year later they came once more to Cambridge, and she simply passed once more through the same process of discharge which seems now to have removed the symptoms still further. By far more reliable, however, is the method of side-tracking the starting experience into a new associational track.
A nervous woman's emotions are constantly side-tracking her away from the main cause of her difficulty, and so keeping her nervous. A nervous woman's desire to get her own way and strained rebellion at not getting her own way bedazzles or befogs her brain so that her nerves twist off into all sorts of emotions which have nothing whatever to do with the main cause.
In brain terms it indicates an activity of the higher centers, a sort of side-tracking or long-circuiting of the primitive energy; ... Rosetti's poem, 'The Woodspurge, gives a concrete example of the formation of such a symbol.
When he and Brakeman Joe went to the forward end of the train, to make ready for side-tracking it, they left the dog sitting on the rear platform of the caboose, and the tramp apparently asleep, as Rod had found him, on one of the lockers.
In his excitement he had dropped an admission as to the past in politics while offering a disclaimer as to the present. "There's no time now for any political discussions," retorted Morrison, curtly. "It's a matter right now of side-tracking a fight. If that fight comes off, Governor North, the truth will come out. And you can't point to a principle in your case as an excuse for bloodshed!"
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