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'Oh, Cap'en Cuttle, Cap'en Cuttle, do you dare to look me in the face, and not be struck down in the berth! The Captain, who looked anything but daring, feebly muttered 'Standby! 'Oh I was a weak and trusting Fool when I took you under my roof, Cap'en Cuttle, I was! cried Mrs MacStinger.
On the Tuesday following, after the sermon, possessed and transported by a bacchanalian fury, they ran up and down the church with their swords drawn, defacing the monuments of the dead, hacking and hewing the seats and stalls, and scraping the painted walls. Sir William Waller and the rest of the commanders standby as spectators and approvers of these barbarous impieties."
Seventh, to provide standby authority to impose price ceilings for scarce commodities which basically affect essential industrial production or the cost of living, and to limit unjustified wage adjustments which would force a break in an established price ceiling.
Gwynne shook himself and stood up. "I don't know. I have been feeling as if I had killed Bratty myself. But I cannot imagine myself committing suicide talk about ugly words! In the first place I don't think that one crime is any reason for committing another, and in the second " "It is cowardly! You don't suppose that old standby slipped my mind, do you? Well, I am a coward.
After what seemed a long, long time, somebody sighed, somebody else stirred in his seat; presently, the men dropped into a low murmur of confidential talk, each with his neighbor, and the incident was closed. There were indications that that man was fond of his anecdote; that it was his pet, his standby, his shot that never missed, his reputation-maker. But he will never tell it again.
Before we had abandoned her I had heard the wireless frantically sputtering the "standby" call, and I was certain that already the big boats of the Fall River, Providence, and Joy lines, and launches from every wireless station between Bridgeport and Newport, were making toward her.
Two minutes of his time may mean everything to you and nothing to him." Lilly flashed to her feet. "To-night!" "Keep your head. Sing the 'Jewel Song. It's always a good, showy standby. Let go the way I heard you practice the other Sunday morning and forget that it's Auchinloss or anyone else listening to you." "No, no, not to-night, Miss Neugass. I I'm not prepared. It's too sudden."
By appropriating two extra chairs from a nearby vacant table, the nine diners had managed to seat themselves without crowding at one table. "Isn't it, though?" Vera Mason glanced happily around the circle. "I miss Baretti's dreadfully during vacations. There is really no other restaurant quite like it." "We missed it too, this summer. Our main standby in Sanford was Sargeant's.
It was no light thing for a boy of his years, ignorant of life and the world, to cut himself adrift from old ties and voyage into the unknown. Had he been wise? He had no trade as a standby; his whole endowment was his youth and his wits. Would they suffice? Diggle's talk had opened up an immense prospect, full of color and mystery and romance, chiming well with his daydreams.
But that little hat would never be the same again after being used as a goad for Ida Bellethorne. Betty sighed, and gave up her attempt. When they came to the place in the ravine where the wires were down Dr. Pevy drew up Standby. The mare snorted, recognizing the spot. But the electrical display was over, for the power had been turned off.
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