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It may be as you suggest." "They are both sneaks," said Jim, who designated all his enemies by that name. "They'd just as lieve do it as not. I never liked them." "I must look into this matter. It's clear that some one has got this money, and whoever has it has got possession of it dishonestly." "To be sure," answered Jim, with unblushing assurance.
"Suppose he should take it into his head to duck you, though yes, and drown you what then?" "I should like to see him try it; I'd give him such a pair of black eyes that he wouldn't dare to show his face in the admiral's cabin again for a long while, let alone down in the orlop there, where he lives, and hereabouts on the upper decks where he sneaks so much.
"'I beg pardon? she says, lookin' at me funny. "'Yes'm, you can pat him, I says. "She takes Rainbow by the head, 'n' sort of hugs it, 'n' rubs the tips of her fingers over his eyelids. Then she whispers to him, but I hears it. "'Old precious! she says. 'I've always loved Rainbows! Do you bring a fair day, too? "Just then a black auto sneaks around the bend of the main road, 'n' Mr.
Sandy M'Collop, had made of John James, Clive perpetrated a picture of Sandy which set the whole room in a roar; and when the Caledonian giant uttered satirical remarks against the assembled company, averring that they were a parcel of sneaks, a set of lick-spittles, and using epithets still more vulgar, Clive slipped off his fine silk-sleeved coat in an instant, invited Mr.
And heroism, after all, is only effective reliance on some virtue in a crisis, in spite of temptations to do the easy excusable thing. And when Lige Bemis sneaks through this story in unlovely guise, remember that he has a virtue that once exalted even him. "Gabe Carnine," said Ward, as the barn fell and there was nothing more to fear, "we didn't fire your haystack; I give you my word on that.
"Jasper is a sleek brute," he said viciously. She laid her hand on his arm. "Please be patient," she said. "Jasper has said nothing whatever to me and has never been anything but most polite and kind." "I know that variety of kindness," growled the young man. "He is one of those sly, soft-footed sneaks you can never get to the bottom of.
Except in the calendar, the action is ironical; but it is still deceptive. The sun mounts high: it is above the horizon twelve hours at a time. The snow gradually sneaks away in liquid repentance. One morning it is gone, except in shaded spots and close by the fences. From about the trunks of the trees it has long departed: the tree is a living thing, and its growth repels it.
The Pharisee he goes in boldly, fears nothing, but trusteth in himself that his state is good, that God loves him, and that there was no doubt to be made but of his good speed in this his religious enterprise. But, alas! poor Publican, he sneaks, crawls into the temple, and when he comes there, stands behind, aloof, off; as one not worthy to approach the divine presence.
I don't believe in him." "Nor I," said one of the gentlemen. "Underhand bowling was all he was celebrated for at school; he bowled most frightful sneaks all the time he was there." "Talking about Clare Turner," Charlie Lloyd put in, "I've brought a new book of poems author unknown. I picked it up at the station to-day.
At the close of this magniloquent period, borrowed, no doubt, from some great American orator, Baron Levy involuntarily retreated towards the shelter of the polling-booth, followed by some frowning Yellows with very menacing gestures. "But the calumniator sneaks away; leave him to the reproach of his conscience," resumed Dick, with a generous magnanimity. Egerton.
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