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And pensions he might be pensioned off wid as much as a couple of shillin's a day." "Not this long while yet, plase the pigs," broke out Mick, squaring his shoulders, as if Time were a visible antagonist, and momentarily forgetting the matter immediately in hand. "But there's chances in it splendid och, it's somethin' you may call livin'."
He had a gift for chess and mechanical invention, and in the early days had saved himself from starvation by the sale of some ingenious patents to a swaggering co-religionist who owned race-horses and a music-hall, but he sank into squaring the circle and inventing perpetual motion.
Stefan exhaled a great breath of joy. There was something beautiful upon the ship, after all. He found and lit a cigarette, and squaring his shoulders to the deckhouse wall, leaned back the more comfortably to indulge what he took to be his chief mission the art of perceiving beauty.
He even drew himself together, as it were, with the movement of dignity which was habitual with him, straightening his back, squaring his shoulders and leaning slightly forward in his seat. As he began to speak again, Vjera clasped her hands upon her knees and looked down at the gravel of the public path. "I am in earnest," he said.
You shall not!" he shouted, shaking his fist at the empty air and squaring his shoulders as though he expected some ghostly enemy to materialize from behind a door or out of the folds of a portiere. He threw off his coat and waistcoat and, wiping the sweat from his face, hurried on again in his ceaseless round. In the dining room he halted at the sideboard and filled a glass with brandy and soda.
I'd rather have Miss Smith with one laig than Ruby Ann with three. Tom Walker ain't goin' to raise Ned with such a slip of a girl." "I ruther guess not, when I'm there," Tim said, squaring himself up as if ready to fight a dozen Tom Walkers, when, in fact, he was afraid of one, and usually kept out of his way. Mrs.
Accordingly, finding the painter's remarks somewhat overfull of fanaticism, and the Monk's of simplicity, to please his taste, this wise man, bent on squaring his behaviour with his views and relieving the tedium of waiting, drew from the bulging pocket of his plum-coloured coat his Lucretius, now as always his chiefest solace and faithful comforter.
Then squaring his powerful shoulders and glancing about him with a real dignity which Scattergood Baines, sitting in one corner, noted and applauded, he led the girl from the room. "I'll see you home," he said, formally. "I hain't got nothin' to say." "It it's not your fault," she said, tremulously. "Somebody'll wisht it wa'n't their fault 'fore mornin'," he answered. "I shouldn't have gone."
He will thank you to-morrow that you disobeyed." "I shall not disobey." Little Miss Quiney, looking up into her ward's eyes, argued this point no further. "Very well," said she. "Then I go too." She closed her mouth firmly, squaring her jaw. "But in the sedan there is room for one only." "Then I go first," said Miss Quiney, "and the chair shall return for you.
But Cohen, sensible that the master of the family must make some apology for all this weakness, and that the occasion called for a speech, addressed Deronda with some elevation of pitch, squaring his elbows and resting a hand on each knee: "It's not as we're the people to grudge anybody's good luck, sir, or the portion of their cup being made fuller, as I may say.
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