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Updated: May 14, 2025
I could see that I had checked a recital of her accomplishments. We arrived at a clear stream in a gentleman's park, where grass rolled smooth as sea-water on a fine day, and cows and horses were feeding. 'I can catch that horse and mount him, she said. I was astonished. 'Straddle? She nodded down for 'Yes. 'No saddle? She nodded level for 'No. My respect for her returned.
The firm young lips came together with sudden passion: "The argument has ended. To your tents, O Israel! It means war " "Nonsense," John broke in impetuously. "It means anything or nothing. It's hot and cold a straddle, a contradiction " He paused and turned to Betty: "What do you think?" "Of the President?" she asked dreamily. "Of his Inaugural," John corrected.
He often stretched himself out at full length on the ground, where he looked like the long ridge of a hill; and it was a good hour's walk, no doubt, for a short-legged Pygmy to journey from head to foot of the Giant. He would lay down his great hand flat on the grass, and challenge the tallest of them to clamber upon it, and straddle from finger to finger.
"Come, come, none of your gammon; straddle the rail, Ephraim." The rail was brought and Barnum was about to be placed on it, when the truth flashed upon him. "Gentlemen," he exclaimed, "I am not Avery; I despise that villain as much as you can; my name is Barnum; I belong to the circus which arrived here last night, and I am sure Old Turner, my partner, has hoaxed you with this ridiculous story."
'You may have heard, sir, the patrician went on, 'of a commercial transaction of nature unfathomable to myself I have not sought for information, he waved his hand impatiently, 'a transaction called a Straddle? Logan murmured that he was aware of the existence of the phrase, though unconscious of its precise meaning.
But I'd jest love to oblige yuh, an' if yuh can square me with the old man I'll take Matlock's trail soon as I can straddle m' hoss agin. Yuh see, Ken's kinder got hes heart sot on doin' thet leetle stunt hisself, an' he's apt to r'ar up an' sweat under thu collar when anybody musses with hes things. Yuh onderstand how 'tis "
And he has had his breakfast served in Master Geoffrey Inchbold's own room at the Swan, and swears that he will walk the whole way to Coventry sooner than straddle the horse that the burgesses have sent him to ride." "What! Is he at the inn? Why, let's go down and see him." "Master Brunswood says that he will birch whoever cometh late," objected Hal Saddler. "Birch?" groaned Nick.
I am going to get a horse and have a look at the country. And Aunty " here the girl's voice came chokingly, as though some deep emotion agitated her " I am going to ride 'straddle'!" She did not look to see whether Agatha had survived this second shock but Agatha had survived many such shocks.
"One would need a rope or a long lever to do that, my Captain," put in Leclair. "It is obvious that a man, or men, standing on the trap, could not raise it. And it is too large to straddle." The Master arose, stripped off his tunic and passed it through the ring. He twisted the tunic and gave one end to the lieutenant. Himself, he took the other. "Get hold, everybody!" he commanded.
We'll be movin'. Maybe another shower by'm'by, an' I sha'n't wanter be out in it." "We'll go just as fast as you want to," said Tom, hobbling along to the stables. "I won't keep you back, Mr. Blodgett." "You're lame, I see," said the man, not unkindly. "You kin straddle one of the hosses if you like."
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