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And amid all this, the writing of one of his most wonderful and virulent books, at once deeply instructing and passionately inflaming the German working-man. And always the same sledge-hammer hitting at the same nail Universal Suffrage. Get that and you may get everything. Nourish no resentment against the capitalists. They are the product of history as much as your happier children will be.
When I talked French, he told me it was capital: 'It came down like a sledge-hammer. His little satirical remarks were such as these: It was March and I took a bunch of violets to Rosa; notched white paper was wound around them, and Mr. Hawthorne said, 'They have on a cambric ruffle."
Maurice Van Nant visited him unexpectedly, and withdrew from his keeping a sealed packet which had been in the firm's custody for eight years. If you want to know why he withdrew it Dollops!" "Right you are, guv'ner." "Give me the sledge-hammer. Thanks! Now, Mr. Narkom, look!"
For Gerald came down like a sledge-hammer with his assertions, anything the little German said was merely contemptible rubbish. At last Loerke turned to Gudrun, raising his hands in helpless irony, a shrug of ironical dismissal, something appealing and child-like. 'Sehen sie, gnadige Frau-' he began. 'Bitte sagen Sie nicht immer, gnadige Frau, cried Gudrun, her eyes flashing, her cheeks burning.
The great gate seemed to defy the force of all the sledge-hammer strokes that could be rained against it, and its warders were obstinate alike to the demands and the threats of the besiegers. But some one in the ranks of the besiegers suggested fire, and through fire the Tolbooth fell.
Wo!... wo!... turn round, stand sideways! And we'll take off the saddle. What do you think of him, your ex-shelency? 'The horse is all right, repeated Tchertop-hanov with affected indifference, though his heart was beating like a sledge-hammer in his breast. He was a passionate lover of 'horse-flesh, and knew a good thing when he saw it. 'Only take a look at him, your ex-shelency!
Having said this, the goldsmith, enraged at the calmness of the abbot, who seemed resolved to secure the good man's doubloons to the abbey, dealt such a blow with his fist on an oaken chair, it flew in pieces as if struck by a sledge-hammer. "See, my lord, what a serf you will have, and how of an artificer of divine things you will make a draught-horse."
The second encountered Broussard stepping off the bridge ladder, and hurled the fellow to the deck with one blow of a sledge-hammer fist. Scarcely pausing to see whether he was alive or not, the assailant ran on toward the forecastle. The whole affair was over in two minutes, the blue-jackets circling out like a fan, and pressing their enemy into a helpless mass against the rail.
I stood straight up against the wall, my heart still going like a sledge-hammer, but with a ray of hope now shining in my bosom. Silver leant back against the wall, his arms crossed, his pipe in the corner of his mouth, as calm as though he had been in church; yet his eye kept wandering furtively, and he kept the tail of it on his unruly followers.
There's been more peace than love atwixt us, master, cried the steward, making some very unequivocal demonstrations toward hostility; so mind yourself! square your self, I say! do you smell this here bit of a sledge-hammer? Lay hands on me if you dare! exclaimed Hiram, as well as he could, under the grasp which the steward held on his throttle lay hands on me if you dare!
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