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With that the stage started and their fears subsided somewhat. On the box Smith was looking sharply at the doctor. Then he asked: "Can you drive better than you can shoot, or shoot better than you can drive?" "I guess it's about a stand-off," replied the doctor without a ripple of excitement; "but I was brought up with four mules." Without another word Smith stood on the footboard, and Dr.
Who'd a thought them durned Indians was dishonest enough fer a trick like that?" Then Donnelly spoke up and says: "Boys, as fur as the coin goes, we're out an' injured; we jest made a 'Mexican stand-off' lost our money, but saved our lives and mighty lucky at that, from appearances.
"I guess you'd better say a few words to them, Your Highness; they'll expect it." "But I can't speak the language, and they can't understand English. The thing'll be a stand-off." "Crump will hand it to 'em. Here, Crump." "Sir?" "Line up and shoot His Highness's remarks into 'em." "Yes, sir. "It's all very well for you, Crump," said John. "You probably enjoy this sort of thing. I don't.
Well, and now he had never again gone nearly so far as to kiss her hand, and yet because of an indiscreet moment everything was changed between them; she had turned resentful, stand-off, nay, as nearly rude as a girl under the restraints of modern manners can manage to be.
That poor old fly-away Miss Brennan came to the door this mornin' with a bunch of leaves and berries. I asked her into my kitchen, and gave her a cup o' cocoa. There, she were grateful, poor soul!" "You must have the four-leaved shamrock, Susan," Lady O'Gara said. "Lizzie is so very stand-off with most people." "So Mr. Kenny was tellin' me. He used your Ladyship's words.
Forts "Whoop-Up," "Stand-off" and the rest, with some of the outlaws in garrison, would have been a welcome diversion after the hardships they had experienced.
"If we tell these fellows that we'll get out their logs for them, and then don't do it, I'll be DEAD around here." "So that's about a stand-off," said Newmark. "I'm betting twenty thousand on what I've seen and heard of you, and you're risking your reputation that I don't want to drop my money." Orde laughed. "And I reckon we're both right," he responded.
The diplomatic appointments, the embassies particularly, were a difficulty. Admiral Pothnau went to London. He was a very gallant officer and had served with the English in the Crimea had the order of the Bath, and exactly that stand-off, pompous manner which suits English people. General Chanzy went to St. Petersburg. It has been the tradition almost always to send a soldier to Russia.
They had also come near losing their own capital on at least one occasion. So here was a stand-off. The campaign now begun was destined to result in heavier losses, to both armies, in a given time, than any previously suffered; but the carnage was to be limited to a single year, and to accomplish all that had been anticipated or desired at the beginning in that time.
To this John Gordon gave his ready consent, and was anxious to hear in what way his assistance was to be asked in again putting Mr and Mrs Tookey, with their young children, respectably on their feet. "There are men, you know, stand-off sort of fellows, who think that a woman should never be forgiven." "It must depend on how far the husband has been in fault." "Exactly.
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