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"I am probably not good enough," thought Nils. "I know I am a selfish fellow, and cruel, too, some-times, to birds and beasts. I suppose she won't have anything to do with me, as long as she isn't satisfied with my behavior."
Philip Oswald still asserted, that but for the faint-heartedness which illness had brought upon his father, and the untimely pressure of the creditors because of it, there needed have been no failure. He asserted it indignantly enough some-times, but he did not regret the disposal of the house or the spoiling of the beautiful grounds as he might have been supposed to do.
Solomon was. wise perhaps from inspiration, perhaps from observation; I was becoming wise by experience, and I was compelled to observe that when mud and wet sapped the physical energy of the lazily-inclined, a dog-whip became their backs, restoring them to a sound some-times to an extravagant activity. For thirty miles from our camp was the Makata plain an extensive swamp.
'Some-times I thinks I corrals her, an' then ag'in it looks like I ain't in it. Jest now I'm feelin' some dejected. "'Somethin' oughter be schemed to settle this yere, says Enright. 'It keeps the camp in a fever, an' mebby gets serious an' spreads. "'If somebody would only prance in, says Doc Peets, 'an' shoot Jim up some, you'd have her easy.
Some-times the Indians tried to kill them, but by showing the peace pipe they made friends. At last they turned back. Jo-li-et went to Can-a-da. Mar-quette preached to the Indians in the West till he died. The King of England gave all the land in Penn-syl-va-ni-a to William Penn. The King made Penn a kind of king over Penn-syl-va-ni-a. Penn could make the laws of this new country.
I've never been to anything but a village school, but I could make up paragraphs like that myself." "That's the up-town kind," said Tembarom. "The down-town ones wear their mothers' point-lace wedding-veils some-times, but they're not much different. Say, I believe I could do it if I had luck." "So do I," returned Little Ann. Tembarom looked down at the carpet, thinking the thing over.
"He'll come here," said the keeper of the ruins of Melrose Abbey to Washington Irving "he'll come here some-times, wi' great folks in his company, and the first I'll know of it is hearing his voice calling out, 'Johnny! Johnny Bower! And when I go out I'm sure to be greeted wi' a joke or a pleasant word.
I had from the first observed that the child's strongest passion was a patriotism of a somewhat fiery kind. The word English in her mouth seemed some-times a word of reproach: it was the name of the race that in the past had invaded her sacred Snowdonia. I afterwards learnt that her aunt was answerable for this senseless prejudice. 'Winnie, I said, 'don't you wish I was a Welsh boy?
"If you had one, Desire might ride in it some-times, instead of always in Dr. Rogers'. Can't you see that it's dangerous?" "One has to take risks," said Spence plaintively. "John is careless. But he has never killed anyone yet." "You're impossible, Benis." "Yes, I know. But particularly impossible as a chauffeur. That's why I haven't a car. What would I do with a driver when I wasn't using him?
It's great sport, in a way too, sometimes. We leave all the camouflage behind, and some-times Fritz will spend a week shelling a position that was moved away at the first shell that came as if it meant they really were on to us." I wondered how a battery commander would determine the difference between a casual hit and the first shell of a bombardment definitely planned and accurately placed.
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