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"What of it?" he demanded. "Because," she replied, still laughing, "I tell you, she is perfectly mad about you. There's no use scowling and squaring your chin. Oh, I ought to know what that indicates! I've watched you do it often enough; but the fact is that the handsomest and smartest woman in town is for ever dinning your perfections into my ears "
From the expression on O'Connor's face he suspected that that gentleman had discovered something not displeasing to him, and unconsciously he found his own shoulders squaring themselves as though for a conflict. "We have here," began the President, slowly, "a loss at Providence on a risk which Mr. O'Connor seems to think we should not have written." "Where is the risk, sir?" Smith asked quietly.
They were not in the slightest degree scientific; they were not what people call rounds, and there was no squaring, for everything was of the most singular description: arms flew about like windmill sails; fists came in contact with fists, arms, heads, faces, chests, and at times in a curly or semi-circular kind of blow with backs and shoulders.
"That was dead easy coming downgrade," he answered. "And that little blow up there on the mountain top wasn't anything to speak of, alongside a regular Alaska blizzard. If I'd had to weight my pockets with rocks, that would have been something doing. I might have felt then that I was squaring myself with Dave Weatherbee."
The squaring of a number the raising of it to its second power finds graphic expression in the plane figure of the square; and the cubing of a number the raising of it to its third power in the solid figure of the cube. Now squares and cubes have been recognized from time immemorial as useful ornamental motifs.
Grants of land were asked, not only for the planters, but for their wives, 'as equally important parts of the colony. It was wisely provided that of the natives 'the most towardly boys in wit and the graces' should be educated and set apart to the work of converting the Indians to the Christian religion; stringent penalties were attached to idleness, gambling, and drunkenness; excess in apparel was prohibited by heavy taxation; encouragement was given to agriculture in all its known forms; while conceding 'the commission of privileges' brought over by the new Governor as their fundamental law, yet with the liberty-guarding instinct of their race they kept the way open for seeking redress, 'in case they should find aught not perfectly squaring with the state of the colony. No less important were the enactments regulating the dealings of the colonists with the Indians.
"Does he want kill you?" "Arrah, be aisy now; isn't it me master he's after, and what's the difference? Barring I would rather it was meself, that I might sittle it gintaaly wid him;" and Teddy, "squaring" himself, began to make threatening motions at the Indian's head. "Bad man why not like Mr. Harvey?" said the savage, paying no attention to Teddy's demonstrations. "There yees has me.
"Get in wid ye into the house this minute out o' me sight," he screamed. "Him your husband! A dirty little beggar's brat that I picked up out o' the gutter for charity!" "Charity yourself," interrupted Mike, squaring his shoulders. "I've done more work for ye nor ever ye paid me for now!
When the hour of bedtime arrived, the boys were instructed how to get into their hammocks, and laughed at for tumbling out on the opposite side. But, after a few attempts, they succeeded in gaining the center of their suspended beds, and were soon in a sound sleep. Squaring the Yards. By degrees the boys became accustomed to their new situation, and began to feel much more contented.
Yet it is equally true that, if knowledge of a certain object does not exist, the object may nevertheless quite well exist. Thus, in the case of the squaring of the circle, if indeed that process is an object of knowledge, though it itself exists as an object of knowledge, yet the knowledge of it has not yet come into existence.
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