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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I can carry 'em." "No, let me help." Tom bent over then suddenly straightened. "By the way, we haven't introduced ourselves. My name's Corbett Tom Corbett." He stuck out his hand. Astro hesitated, sizing up the curly-headed boy in front of him, who stood smiling and offering friendship. Finally he pushed out his own hand and smiled back at Tom. "Astro, but you know that by now."
"Very much stranger things. Your cousin, according to your account of him, was an uncommonly sharp man. He was quick at sizing up things and people. He was the sort as you've represented him to me that was what's termed fertile in resource. Now, I've been theorizing a bit as I came up in the train; one's got to in my line, you know.
Hence by day and by night the deadfall is rigged and the trap is set and baited baited with a spurious gayety and an imitation joyousness; but the joyousness is as thin as one coat of sizing, and the brass shines through the plating; and behind the painted, parted lips of laughter the sharp teeth of greed show in a glittering double row. Yet gallus Mr.
The difference between a paper that is sized and that has a repellent surface which prevents the ink from settling into it when it is written upon, and an ordinary blotting-paper with its absorbent surface, is due entirely to the fact that the former is most carefully treated with sizing both in the beating engine and in the size tub or vat referred to later, whereas in the latter paper it is omitted.
I could see she wasn't troubling with the question whether I was speaking the truth. She was sizing me up as a man. I cannot describe that calm appraising look. There was no sex in it, nothing even of that implicit sympathy with which one human being explores the existence of another. I was a chattel, a thing infinitely removed from intimacy.
When an attempt has been made to write over the place without sufficiently restoring the sizing, the effects can be seen in the running of the ink between the fibres and the staining of the body of the paper to a considerable depth from the surface and to a considerable distance from the spot. Erasures in parchments produce prominences on the opposite side of the sheet.
"She's all of that, that old girl. She's the only one I never do get close to. Soured old maid, I guess. Looks at you a lot, but doesn't say much, like she was sizing you up. That nose of hers certainly does stand out like a peak or something. You wouldn't think it, either, but she reads poetry mushiest kind awful stuff.
"'Bus right up to the town hall!" cried a driver, sizing the trio up shrewdly. "Thank you; that's our auto over there," nodded Tom, pointing to a lunch wagon. Reade started the chums at a brisk walk. Of the first native they met they inquired the way. Tom was still talking at forty horse-power when they came to the town hall. "That building holds our fate!" muttered Dave, as they drew near.
As I watched him closely, it occurred to me that he really paid little attention to what the women said, he was more engaged in scanning their faces and noting their attitudes. Perhaps I imagined it, but I thought he was sizing up their characters and their sympathies, and intended looking up his clues and evidence by himself.
So he awaited the lumbering approach of his foreman in sulky silence, resolved to leave the matter entirely in his hands. Jefferson Creede bore down upon them slowly, sizing up the situation as he came, or trying to, for everything seemed to be at a standstill. "Well?" he remarked, looking inquiringly from the judge to Hardy. "How about it?"
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