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"I have exchanged the gown for the sword, you see," he said, grasping my hand, and fracturing the bones of my little finger, as he shook it. I gazed at him with unmixed admiration. He was squarer, sterner, and in every way smarter and more remarkable than ever.
But I don't happen to be playing cricket, as I think I told you." Adair's jaw grew squarer than ever. Mike was wearing a gloomy scowl. Psmith joined suavely in the dialogue. "My dear old comrades," he said, "don't let us brawl over this matter. This is a time for the honeyed word, the kindly eye, and the pleasant smile. Let me explain to Comrade Adair.
"Nobody can blame Trent after that. I never got in company with squarer lying; it reminds a man of a presidential campaign." "All very well," said I. "That's your Hoyt, and a fine, tall copy. But what I want to know is, where is Trent's Hoyt?" "Took it with him," chuckled Nares.
'Course we'd 'a' expected it of HER losin' her own boy as she did, an' bein' jest naturally so sweet an' lovin'-hearted. But HIM that's diff'rent. Now, you know jest as well as I do what Mr. Holly is every one does, so I ain't sayin' nothin' sland'rous. He's a good man a powerful good man; an' there ain't a squarer man goin' ter work fur.
Three days later, by the early train which leaves the state capital at an unheard-of hour in the morning, a young man arrived in Brampton. His jaw seemed squarer than ever to the citizens who met the train out of curiosity, and to Mr. Dodd, who was expecting a pump; and there was a set look on his face like that of a man who is going into a race or a fight. Mr.
John Dane's chin was much squarer and firmer than his; and because such sense of justice as he had told him that the newcomer was within his rights. "And I beg mademoiselle's pardon," he replied with a bow and a flourish.
"That would be squarer, and more to my liking, than hiring somebody else to do it for you, Mr. Chadron. Ride on I don't want to stand here and quarrel with you." "I'm goin' to clear you nesters out of there up the river" Chadron waved his hand in the direction of which he spoke "and put a stop to your rustlin' before another month rolls around.
A very ordinary kind of young Northerner. He was remarkable only in having everything a little in excess of his type a little squarer in jaw and shoulder, a little longer in nose and leg, a little keener of eye and slower of tongue. I'd never have looked at him twice, as he landed from the dirty steamer with a lot of tin boxes, if it hadn't been that he was hale and sound, with hope in his eyes.
She was fond of wearing a shawl, which hung ungracefully about her, and made her figure look squarer and her shoulders higher than they really were. Her face struck sharply upon my brain, as if I had never seen it distinctly before; not a bad face, but unmistakably plain, and just now with a frown upon it, and her heavy eyebrows knitted forbiddingly.
"There's writing and spelling yet," he said, and Dan, with his interest in booklearning reviving, watched the square chin setting squarer, and was bewildered. "Seems to have struck a mob of brumbies," he commented.
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