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The conflict is narrowed down by party politicians, who have particular interests to serve, to a mere squabble about school boards, voluntary schools, local authorities, and religious instruction. The consequence is that these side issues have come to be regarded as the great education question of the day.
I went into the hall to meet him, and to bring him into the drawing-room myself. Just as we came in, and while I was introducing him to Sir George, Ralph and Aurelia, who were sitting together as usual, started a lovers' squabble. "Oh my!" said Ralph, suddenly. "It is all your fault. You jogged my elbow," came Aurelia's quick rejoinder.
The Lira tribe had declared their allegiance, and we had friends upon all sides. I had as usual planted gardens at Fatiko, which were flourishing. The natives no longer concealed their stores of corn; but dancing and rejoicing had taken the place of watchfulness and insecurity. The children and women flocked to our camp; and marketing upon a large scale was conducted without a squabble.
The schooner was put upon the starboard tack as near to the wind as she would lie, bearing so for the French coast more than the English, and making for the Vergoyers, instead of the Varne, as intended. This carried them into wider water, and a long roll from the southwest crossing the pointed squabble of the strong new wind.
You humbly trust though you have doubts upon the point that you will have the capacity to grasp it all, when once you shall have arrived at the dignity of a Junior. As for the Seniors, your admiration for them is entirely boundless. In one or two individual instances, it is true, it has been broken down by an unfortunate squabble with thick-set fellows in the Chapel aisle.
No answer. "The dignified reserve that distinguishes an estrangement from a squabble." No reply. "Well, I admire permanent sentiments, good or bad; constant resolves, etc. Your friendship has not proved immortal; so, now let us see how long you can hold spite SIEVES!" Then he affected to start. "What is this? I spy a rational creature out on yonder balcony. I hasten to join him.
He twisted his nose and made a face, as if to intimate that it was merely a childish squabble, and Hardy said no more. He was growing wise. The next morning, and the next, Jasper Swope made other attempts at the crossing; and then, as the snow water from the high mountains slipped by and the warm weather dried up by so much each little stream, he was able at last to ford the diminished river.
'Come and get it if you can'; and Josie vanished into the study to have out her squabble in peace, for Mrs Meg was already saying: 'Children, children! don't quarrel. The paper was in the fire by the time Demi arrived and he at once calmed down, seeing that the bone of contention was out of the way.
Brett," said the detective, viciously prodding the gravel path with his stick, "is how you ferret out these queer facts fancies some people would call them, as I used to do until I knew you better." "In this case it is simple enough. By mere chance I happened to read this morning that there had been some little domestic squabble in royal circles at Constantinople.
Then Musgrave entertained us with an account of a squabble he had lately had with a certain editor, who had commissioned him to write a set of papers on literary subjects, and then had objected to his treatment.
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