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He was too open-hearted and free-handed a typical Southerner I suppose you would say at the North, that is, those of you who don't think of us as all slave-drivers and slave-traders. I expect the North and South will have to have a good, square, stand-up fight before they understand each other." "God forbid!" ejaculated Haldane. "Well, I don't think you and I will ever quarrel.
He has got the notion that Meldrum and Charlton are terrors, but now he has licked them onc't, he won't figure them out as so bad." "He didn't exactly lick them in a stand-up fight, Dave." "No, he just knocked them down and tromped on them and put them out of business," agreed Dingwell dryly. The eyes of the little Irishman twinkled. "Brad Charlton is giving it out that it was an accident."
It must be our honest worth, our sterling merit, that attracts them certainly not our appearance, in a pair of tweed "dittos," black angora coat and vest, stand-up collar, and chimney-pot hat! No, it must be our sheer force of character that compels their admiration.
These men were fully armed with Winchester, revolvers, and knives, they had no superiors as horsemen, they were accustomed to the rough out-door life, and it may be said that all welcomed the chance of a stirring brush with the red men that had been hovering in their vicinity so long, but who took care to avoid anything in the nature of a fair stand-up fight.
There is the same etiquette as at dinner observed at these formal luncheons. There is such a thing, however, as a "stand-up" luncheon a sort of reception with banquet, from which one could absent one's self without being missed. Punctuality in keeping all engagements is a feature of a well-bred character, in society as well as in business, and it cannot be too thoroughly insisted upon.
The waistcoat was cut so as to show a good space of coloured shirt front, though on Sundays when in port and days of sailing and arrival, white shirts were worn; usually a stand-up collar with silk stock or some kind of soft neckerchief encircled his neck. He was weather-beaten, ruddy, and altogether rather pleasant to look at. He could navigate his vessel along the coast almost blindfold.
"I'd like to fust-rate if you won't be too much ashamed of me." "Then it's settled, isn't it? The service begins at a quarter to eleven. We will leave here at half-past ten." The captain shaved with extra care that morning, donned spotless linen, including a "stand-up" collar which he detested brushed his frock-coat and his hair with great particularity, and gave Edwards his shoes to clean.
You have probably observed that your baby-sister wants to do all sorts of things that your mother and her nurse want her not to do to stand up at sitting-down time, and to sit down at stand-up time, for instance, or to wake up when she should fall asleep, or to crawl on the floor when she is wearing her best frock, and so on, and perhaps you put this down to naughtiness.
The last 101-ton gun having been melted down for the forging of the metal piles for one of the four newly-projected Channel bridges, a nasty international feeling, fermented by General Officers who are obliged to sweep crossings and drive four-wheeled cabs for a livelihood, and who do not like it, begins to manifest itself, and diplomacy intervening irritably only to make matters worse, several ultimatums are dispatched from some of the Great Powers to others, but owing to the want of soldiers, the matter is put into the hands of International Solicitors, who, arranging a stand-up fight for the President of the French Republic and the CZAR against the Emperors of GERMANY and AUSTRIA, and the KING of ITALY, the matter somehow falls through for the moment, and the public excitement subsides.
'Na, na! said Bell, 'th' feyther's feyther, and we mun respect him. But it's dree work havin' a man i' th' house, nursing th' fire, an' such weather too, and not a soul coming near us, not even to fall out wi' him; for thee and me must na' do that, for th' Bible's sake, dear; and a good stand-up wordy quarrel would do him a power of good; stir his blood like. I wish Philip would turn up.
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