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The two or three satirical poems show a very definite and determined purpose, a sort of ugly competent squaring of the fists, a fighting that pleases by clean hard hitting. It must have been a great pleasure to Mr. Belloc to write: We also know the sacred height Up on Tugela side, Where the three hundred fought with Beit And fair young Wernher died.
Gray eyed, his dark lashes long enough to threaten to curl, the lean line of his jaw squaring after the manner of America's fondest version of her manhood, he was already in danger of fond illusions and fond mommas. "Hello, mother!" he said, striding quickly through the chairs and over to where she sat. "Edwin!" "Thought I'd sleep home to-night, mother."
"We were all under sentence of eviction, but it was told to us that it was for squaring the farms. Then we were warned to pay in the half- year's rent. It was not due till May, and we had never been asked to pay the rent ahead of us before. But the landlord was a new one, and if he made a rule, why, we must obey him; so we scraped up and sold this and that and paid it.
I judged him to be about my own age, but he was much taller, and he had a way of spinning himself about that was full of appearance. My heart failed me when I saw him squaring at me with every demonstration of mechanical nicety, and eyeing my anatomy as if he were minutely choosing his bone.
"Coppers is all alike; there's always a way to square 'em " "Lay off that 'squaring' stuff," cautioned a renegade crook, disguised by a suit of mackinaws and a week's growth of beard into the likeness of a stampeder. "A thousand bucks and a ton of grub, that's what the sign says, and that's what it means. They wouldn't let you over the Line with nine hundred and ninety-nine fifty."
But remember my difficult position here." "It will be a precious deal more difficult for you soon. I can promise you," said Mr Ratman, lifting his hand to his swollen eye with an oath. "Now then, I'll give you a month. If you're not rid of this fellow by then, and aren't a good deal nearer than you are now to squaring up with me, you'll be sorry you ever heard my name."
He had recovered a little, and was as gay as a schoolboy just getting ready for the holidays. He pulled a piece of paper towards him, and squaring his elbows, he wrote in large round hand: "Come home quick to granp, and I'll be there to meet you same as before." "Your loving grandfather," "T. Dawson."
There must be give and take; "what hope is there of squaring and settling opinions unless Absolutism will hold parley on this common ground and admit that all philosophies are hypotheses, to which all our faculties, emotional as well as logical, help us, and the truest of which will in the final integration of things be found in possession of the men whose faculties on the whole had the best divining power?"
I bid you no longer fix your mind on a chimera but on tangible and realizable prospects. I warn you that efforts to soar above the atmosphere can only lead to disappointment, and that time spent in squaring the circle is simply time spent. Apply your strength and your intellect on matters which lie at hand and on problems which admit of a solution.
"I'll knock the wind out of some on 'em, Mas'r Harry, spite of their knives," cried Tom excitedly. "I'll let 'em know how an Englishman serves them that knocks women about. Hit her with a great thick stick, he did cuss him! I'll let him know!" "Be quiet, Tom! Are you mad?" I said, catching him by the collar, for he was squaring away at the Indians, who were a couple of dozen yards away.
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