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"What do you mean?" demanded Stetson. "I'm saving our stupid necks!" barked Orne. "Alone! You hear? Or we'll have a worse mess on our hands than any Rim War!" There was an extended silence. "You hear me, Stet?" demanded Orne. "O.K., Lew. We're putting the O-force on standby. I'll be at the Bullones' in ten minutes. ComGO will be with me." Pause. "And you'd better know what you're doing!"
But I can never hope to be that again with any woman; my decreasing hair forbids, if nozing else but my way is to make myself indispensable ze old dog, ze old standby, as you Americans say the good old harbour to which you will come at last when tired of ze storms outside!" "Your humility is a new trait," said Florence. "It's none ze less real because it is often hid," said the count.
It was a great standby and resource of his, and had helped to while away many an evening on the frontier. Now, Mrs. Miller had been telling Nellie Bayard about it, and was eager that she should see it. The major, too, and several ladies present, all united in the request and enjoined upon him to hurry back.
South Australia, except about Mount Gambier, does not grow oats, though Victoria depends on oaten hay. The British agriculturist thinks that meadow hay is the natural forage for horses and cattle, and for winter turnips are the standby.
Hear the answer: "I reckon a Frenchman's got his little standby for a dull time, too; because when all other interests fail, he can turn in and see if he can't find out who his father was." The first remark is a good-humored bit of chaffing on American snobbery.
The experiences of the war have shown in conclusive fashion that while sea-going and sea-keeping torpedo destroyers are indispensable, and fast lightly armed and armored cruisers very useful, yet that the main reliance, the main standby, in any navy worthy the name must be the great battle ships, heavily armored and heavily gunned.
We rarely ate vegetables at St. Peter's, but we cultivated them assiduously; and sixpence and eightpence were quite ordinary prices for our cabbages to fetch. So, too, with dairy products. We 'inmates' saw very little of butter at table, treacle being our great standby. Peter's butter stamped 'S.P.O. was famous in the district, and esteemed, as it was priced, highly. Peter's.
Worthy enough for what we want of him. A great standby is Peter in a scrimmage. A growl and a bite oh, my! And you don't want him about?" "I don't." "You want him out of the way?" insisted Ricardo with an affectation of incredulity which Heyst accepted calmly, though the air in the room seemed to grow more oppressive with every word spoken. "That's it. I do want him out of the way."
He was a character, this old, retired sea-captain, a firm friend and ally to all pertaining to the names of Livingstone, or Rutherford, or to any belonging to those families, our factotum and standby; and, moreover, an endless source of amusement to the mature part of the household, and of unbounded admiration to the more juvenile portion.
Let us turn to apply the considerations with which we have been concerned to the case of Galileo, to which generally misunderstood affair we must very briefly allude, since it is the standby of anti-Catholic controversialists. Monsignor Benson, in connection with the quotation recently cited, proclaimed himself "a violent defender of the Cardinals against Galileo."
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