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"Why it's better than nothing: better than going to sleep over a family party; and I vow I have sometimes such difficulty to keep awake, that I am frightened to death lest I should be taken with a sudden nap, and affront them all. Now pray speak the truth without squeamishness, don't you find it very terrible?" "No, I find nothing very terrible with Mrs Delvile."
"The Burrawalla come back! damaged! a collision! And Cardo, where was he? Was it possible that the dull grey town contained her lover?" "Well, to be sure, here's a pretty kettle of fish," said her uncle, using strong compulsion to adapt his words to the squeamishness of a "lil gel." "Here's the Burrawalla, Valmai, put back for repairs, may friend Captain Owen's ship, you know.
Mine is the steadiest heart in the world. Hast thou not reason to think it so? Why this squeamishness then, honest Joseph? But it is because thou art honest so I forgive thee. Whoever loves my divine Clarissa, loves me. Let James Harlowe call me what names he will, for his sister's sake I will bear them.
He rises from his chair with an air of self-confidence, seizes her by the hand, and attempts to drag her upon his knee, saying, "you know I can and will make you a lady. Upon the honor of a gentleman, I love you always have loved you; but what stands in the way, and is just enough to make any gentleman of my standing mad, is this here squeamishness " "No! no! go from me.
For all poets since the time of AEschylus, who could not write until he was too drunken to walk, have been most readily seduced by whatever stimulus most tended to heighten their imaginings; so that for the sake of a song's perfection they have freely resorted to divers artificial inspirations, and very often without evincing any undue squeamishness. . . . I spoke of AEschylus.
Taken by surprise, the Incas offered no resistance whatever. The momentum of our assault carried them to the ground; their heads struck the hard granite with fearful force and they lay stunned. Harry, kneeling over them, looked up at me with a question in his eyes. "The lake," said I, for it was no time for squeamishness.
To please her, this lazy, bored, highbred woman, with all the squeamishness and caprice of high birth and laziness about her, becomes their ideal; to be favourably noticed, their highest glory; to be loved, these wretched mortals, by this divinity that thought must often pass through their brain and terrify them with its delicious audacity; oh no, such a thing is not possible. But it is.
For of course the brigantine is quite aware by this time that the brig and we are running in couples, therefore there need be no further squeamishness on my part as to an interchange of signals between the brig and myself." My douche at an end, I walked aft again, and, pausing at the head of the companion ladder, said to Simpson: "Mr Simpson, be good enough to get out the flags and "
"The women of that city, it seems, pretend much weakness and squeamishness of stomacke, which they say is so great that they are not able to continue in church while the mass is briefly hurried over, much lesse while a solemn high mass is sung and a sermon preached, unles they drinke a cup of hot chocolatte and eat a bit of sweetmeats to strengthen their stomackes.
It had been well for us, as it turned out, if I had done as he bid me, for the squeamishness which we feel about shedding blood is not understood amongst Indians, and they despise us for it. However, before I could say anything further, my cousin stepped up to the door and knocked boldly. There was a commotion inside. I drew my scymetar, and Rupert did the same.
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