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"To think of this charming rosebud of a girl going to marry Eustace Medlicott insufferable, conceited prig, I remember him at Oxford," the cousin was musing to himself. "Lord Carford is an old stick-in-the-mud, or he would have prevented that. She is his own niece, and one can see by her frock that the poor child never even goes to London."
But no; man flew, and returned to earth the man who left it. HARRY: And jolly well likely not to have returned at all if he'd had those flighty notions while operating a machine. CLAIRE: Oh, Harry! HARRY: I have some regard for human life. But I merely passed from a stick-in-the-mud artist to a DICK: Stick-in-the-air aviator?
But there were many of the same ingredients the exaltation of games, hero-worship, rows, the clever new literary mistress who made all the stick-in-the-mud other mistresses angry.... Only were the other mistresses at girls' schools stick-in-the-mud? No, Jane thought not; quite a decent modern set, on the whole, for people of their age. Better than schoolmasters, they must be. How dull it all was!
"Come along, you stupid old stick-in-the-mud," cried Tom, "or the fisherman will catch you!" And that was true, for Tom felt some one above beginning to haul up the pot. But the lobster would not let go. Tom saw the fisherman haul him up to the boat-side, and thought it was all up with him. But when Mr.
Restless, ne'er-do-well, spendthrift, he wanders from factory to factory through the chain of watchmaking towns: Springfield, Trenton, Waltham, Lancaster, Waterbury, Chippewa. Usually expert, always unreliable, certainly fond of drink, Nap Ballou was typical of his kind. The steady worker had a mingled admiration and contempt for him. He, in turn, regarded the other as a stick-in-the-mud.
"Yes, the fellows that stayed at home got all the fat places, an' when we come back we felt dreadful behind the times," grumbled Asa Brown. "I remember how 'twas." "They begun to call us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle. "We wa'n't no hand for strippin' woodland nor even tradin' hosses them first few years.
'He doesn't seem to approve of Ahalala, said Dick. 'In course he don't. When a new rush is opened like that, and takes away half the hands a man has about him, and raises the wages of them who remain, in course he don't like it. You see the difference. The Old Stick-in-the-Mud is an established kind of thing. 'It's a paying concern, I suppose, said Caldigate.
Morton, old stick-in-the-mud, would not let his gardener use a mowing machine, the scythe was good enough for him; and Harvey, recalled to the summer mornings of more than thirty years ago, blessed him for his pig-headedness. But another sound he missed, one he would have heard even more gladly.
For my own part, I rejoiced over every additional delay, as I was loth to leave Winnipeg, and the many kind friends I had made there. A Manitoban Travelling-carriage The Perils of Short Cuts The Slough of Despond Paddy to the Rescue! "Stick-in-the-Mud" and his Troubles McQuade's An Irish Welcome Wretched Wanderers.
You've outstripped old stick-in-the-mud; but I always knew you would lead me the way though.... Funking a bit, are you? Hands like ice, anyway. Come along nothing to be nervous about we're not going to give you the dose of Illiam Dhone -don't martyr the Christians these days, you know." Is was Philip's old master, the Clerk of the Rolls.
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