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Updated: May 24, 2025
"Now, as luck would have it as some folks say, although others put it down to something more than luck Mr Stanchion wasn't like one of those jolly, devil-may-care, slap-dash sort of officers, that your regular shell-backs like best.
The gun itself can be built to an exquisite perfection lightness, handiness, workmanship, and performance of the very best. It is said that you can change from a single-barrel shot-gun to a sporting rifle and shoot with the rifle almost at once; while many who have been used to the slap-dash double cannot do anything for some time with a rifle.
You'd go at it slap-dash, and arrest Levison offhand on the charge." A smile parted Mr. Carlyle's lips, for Dick had just guessed it. But his countenance gave no clue by which anything could be gathered. A thought flashed across Richard's mind; a thought which rose up on end even his false hair. "Mr.
A gentleman if one may so describe him of the name of Mordacks, who lives in a den below a bridge in York, and has very long harassed the law by a sort of cheap-jack, slap-dash, low-minded style of doing things. 'Jobbing, I may call it cheap and nasty jobbing not at all the proper thing, from a correct point of view.
On the right the French rushed the "Haricot" so long a thorn in their flesh; next to them the Anson lads stormed another big Turkish redoubt in a slap-dash style reminding me of the best work of the old Regular Army; but the boldest and most brilliant exploit of the lot was the charge made by the Manchester Brigade in the centre who wrested two lines of trenches from the Turks; and then, carrying right on; on to the lower slopes of Achi Baba, had nothing between them and its summit but the clear, unentrenched hillside.
Bob dropped into the chair; boldly regarded her; his eyes as expressive of his slap-dash intentions as he could make them: "Look here, I want you to enjoy yourself for once. I'm going to take you to a music-hall or somewhere." He stretched a foot; touched her. She drew back close against the mantelpiece, her agitation very evident. "Well, don't that please you?" "You know it is impossible."
"Say, aren't you night watch?" he hallooed, and I said "Yes, I am." "Tis wrong for night watch to leave his post at his pleasure," he added, and to this I blurted out with a bold front; "Nothing wrong at all. It is wrong not to go out." "Say, old man, your slap-dash is going to the limit. Wouldn't look well for the principal or the head teacher to see you out like this."
Henry would save the Basts as he had saved Howards End, while Helen and her friends were discussing the ethics of salvation. His was a slap-dash method, but the world has been built slap-dash, and the beauty of mountain and river and sunset may be but the varnish with which the unskilled artificer hides his joins. Oniton, like herself, was imperfect.
If you copy, make a first-rate index to your extracts. They sell books prepared for the purpose, but you may just as well make your own. You see I am not contemplating any very rapid or slap-dash work. You may put that on your novels, or books of amusement, if you choose, and I will not be very cross about it; but for the books of improvement, I want you to improve by reading them.
This fellow had no money, but she must needs become engaged to him a harumscarum, unpractical chap, who would get himself into no end of difficulties. She had come to him one day in her slap-dash way and told him; and, as if it were any consolation, she had added: "He's so splendid; he's often lived on cocoa for a week!" "And he wants you to live on cocoa too?"
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