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Drake wheeled, ungraciously, and returned to the doorway, while Dundee again consulted his watch, mentally subtracting the minutes which had been wasted upon this interruption, from the time he had marked upon his memory as the moment at which Drake had interfered. But an undercurrent of skepticism nagged at his mind. Why had Drake chosen to walk?
Of course one can no more cure over-work of brain by over-work of body than one can restore a wasted candle by lighting it at the other end. But by subtracting an hour a day from the present amount of purely intellectual fatigue, and inserting that quantum of bodily fatigue in its place, you begin an immediate change in your conditions of life.
Some of our "scientists on a holiday," as they have been facetiously called when they stepped into a field in which they had not become well acquainted with the ground, have proceeded to lend assurance that God is by subtracting so drastically from what is generally attributed to the conception of God, that there is nothing much left to what they conceive as what God means.
How beautiful she was in spite of the brown linen and the sleeve puffs which had so annoyed Neil, and while watching her Jack felt his heart thrill with a strange feeling he had never experienced before in all his intercourse with women, and found himself mentally subtracting fifteen from thirty, and feeling rather appalled at the result.
It is easy enough to add to the wonders of Creation or of Redemption; but you can never add without subtracting. 'It is finished! Many years ago, Ebenezer Wooton, an earnest but eccentric evangelist, was conducting a series of summer evening services on the village green at Lidford Brook.
Twenty-seven dollars, subtracting what he had spent on his mother to-day the ham, too, for he would not get that back that was what he owned, and he needed at least twice as much again before he could get the most necessary things for his room. Only to get her out of this, even if he had to work day and night.
"I've set the fuses each time, subtracting the amount of time since we left the Polaris. I set this one for twenty minutes." "You're wrong, Roger," said Astro. "It's maximum time is two hours." "Listen, you Venusian clunk," exploded Roger, "I built this thing, so I know what I'm doing!" "But, Roger " protested Astro. "Twenty minutes!" said Roger, and twisted the set-screw in the fuse.
"Twenty-one," suggested Bunker, subtracting two or three years on general principles. "Well, you're nearer it than most people. Nineteen on my last birthday, Count!" The Count murmured his surprise and pleasure, and Ri again declared, "That is so." "And it isn't the American climate that ages one, but the terrible persecutions of the British aristocracy!
The reason why our grandmothers could be such good housekeepers without danger of putting a stop to the eternal- womanly was that they had so few things to look after in their houses. Life was indefinitely simpler with them. But the modern improvements, as we call them, have multiplied the cares of housekeeping without subtracting its burdens, as they were expected to do.
I was standing by the doorway after bringing up the correct time of the chronometers, which the skipper kept locked up in his own cabin to prevent their being meddled with, and I could see he looked puzzled, adding up and subtracting his figures over and over again, as if he thought he must have made some error, though he found that he invariably came to the same result.
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