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"I admire your spunk, young man," said the postmaster, heartily, "and I hope you'll come through this all right. But I have felt it my duty to see that you were warned good and solid. I know how Gid Ward got his start in life and by as mean a trick as ever a man put up. "His brother Joshua Ward, enlisted for the war in the sixties. Bachelor, Joshua was.
"That's just what I mean," Bill said. "There ain't nothin' to tell. Now, 'bout a boy bein' civil. You don't often find one, out West here, and when you do it's mostly accident; mebbe inherited. 'Course you c'n train a boy t' be p'lite, but you got t' be careful, like in trainin' any other animal, an' not take th' spunk outa him.
"If that ain't spunk and real grit." Sandy was looking out of the study window and did not reply. "That's the old New England spirit. Never say die and all the rest!" Levi chuckled. "Thank God for it!" was all Sandy said in return. The work God had sent Cynthia to do came to hand very shortly after Miss Markham's return to Bretherton.
Rosalie would sometimes show her lover's epistles to me, to convince me what a kind, devoted husband he would make. She showed me the letters of another individual, too, the unfortunate Mr. Green, who had not the courage, or, as she expressed it, the 'spunk, to plead his cause in person, but whom one denial would not satisfy: he must write again and again.
A loud rapping was heard at the door. 'That's no them. I dinna hear the wheels. Grizzel, ye limmer, gang to the door. 'It's a single gentleman, whined out Grizzel; 'maun I take him into the parlour? 'Foul be in your feet, then; it'll be some English rider. Coming without a servant at this time o' night! Has the hostler ta'en the horse? Ye may light a spunk o' fire in the red room.
Spunk, real, Simon-pure spunk, started somewhere in Patty and coursed through her blood like wine. "If a girl's old enough to stay at home and work, I should think she was old enough to go out and play once in a while." Patty was still too timid to make this remark more than a courteous suggestion, so far as its tone was concerned.
"Egad! and you'll soon get a receipt for holding it up. Why the mischief can't you have spunk?" "Spunk; how the deuce could you expect spunk from any man in my condition? It is difficult to understand you, Mr. Folliard; you told me a minute ago to repent, and now you tell me to have spunk; pray what do you mean by that?" "Why, confound it, I mean that you should repent with spunk.
Her passions were soon reawakened, and the involuntary twistings of her loins and pressures of her sphincter convinced me that in a very short time I should work her up to the utmost; and so it was, and immensely she enjoyed both her own spend and mine when she felt my hot spunk shooting up into her very entrails.
You won't see any Rhine, except a pork rind, on this cruise. If the fellows have any spunk at all, they won't stand this thing." "Stand it! What can they do?" asked Raymond, who really believed the crew to be unfairly treated. "Don't you know what they can do? Who works the ship?" "We do, of course." "Who would work her if we did not?"
But it is her garden because she tends it, and every morning goes around among her flowers lovingly, giving a little dig of dirt here, and tying some frail sisters up there and then, with her scissors, clipping, snipping and nipping away. Yes, it is Zoe's garden. Anything that has spunk to grow is welcome in this essentially San Franciscan garden. And no one is allowed to bully the others.
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