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"Well, whin th' day come f'r th' Orangeys to cillybrate th' time whin King Willum may th' divvle hould him! got a stand-off, an' 'twas no betther, Jawn, f'r th' Irish'd 've skinned him alive if th' poor ol' gaby iv an English king hadn't ducked What's that? Don't I know it? I have a book at home written be an impartial historyan, Pathrick Clancy Duffy, to prove it.
"I once landed a $3,400 bill up in Wisconsin," said a clothing man as we lighted fresh cigars, "in a funny way. I'd been calling on an old German clothing merchant for a good many years, but I could never get him interested. I went into his store one morning and got the usual stand-off.
Destruction of the adversary's systems would begin with long-range stealthy, or "stand-off" Zero CEP weapons, extend to FOG-M type battlefield weapons to close-in systems. Small units would be able to call in "fires" for 360 degrees on a nearly instant basis. Attacks from all aspects would be complemented by deception, disinformation, surveillance, targeting, and killing.
Is Miss Butterfly, as you call her, as stand-off as her brother? 'Not at all. She's accueillante to the last degree. 'Very restricted, I suppose a country girl of the first water? Horizon absolutely bounded by the high hedges of her native parish? 'Oh dear no! Anything but that. She's like her brother, naturally quick and adaptive.
Broughten, a fellow-student of his college; it seemed a more grown-up and superior attitude to adopt. She thought his eyes twinkled, but she preserved such an air of stand-off dignity that he promptly suppressed any undue inclinations towards mirth, and stood looking the epitome of grave politeness. "Broughten knows all about the old barrow," Athelstane explained.
"I'll risk your ever doing anything very wicked, mother; and if the time comes when it seems to you as though I don't do exactly as you want me to, just remember all you've said about my being a good boy, an' let it be a stand-off, will you?" "I am certain you will never do anything to cause me sorrow, Dickey, dear.
I see no room for error save in the cavalry, which was very much scattered, and whose reports are much less reliable than of the infantry and artillery; but as Surgeon Foard's tables do not embrace Wheeler's, Jackson's, and Martin's divisions of cavalry, I infer that the comparison, as to cavalry losses, is a "stand-off."
Now these stand-off sort of fellows will never admit that they have been in fault at all. That's not my case." "You drank a little." "For the matter of that, so did she. When a woman drinks she gets herself to bed somehow. A man gets out upon a spree. That's what I used to do, and then I would hit about me rather recklessly. I have no doubt Matilda did get it sometimes.
Of all youth's passions and pleasures, this is the most common and least alloyed; and every flash of Alan's black eyes; every aspect of his curly head; every graceful reach and easy, stand-off attitude of waiting; everything about him down even to his shirt-sleeves and wrist-links, were seen by John through a luxurious glory.
I suppose they do." She came to them often after that, sometimes alone, twice with Johnny Dromore, sometimes with young Oliver, who, under Sylvia's spell, soon lost his stand-off air. And the statuette was begun.
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