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They knew that if they howled at us it would only afford an opportunity to retort "Very well then, if you do not like us at the gates of your leader; if you do not want us to `insult' the President, end this agitation by taking the matter into your own hands and passing the amendment." Such a sug- gestion would be almost as severe a shock as our picketing.
It is a countless swarm of 'sug, or water-shrimp; a bad food, but devoured greedily by the great trout in certain overstocked preserves.
One of my first acts, as soon as I began to grow dry and warm, was to take my knife from my pocket and cut a notch in the tree just on a level with the water. Pomp looked at me and then shook his head. "No," he said; "no, Mass' George, no get sug gum dah, an' Pomp dreffle hungry."
Of course, you didn't know, but you must understand that that rule obtains among all agents in New York." "So we heard," I said, indifferently. "You know that?" "Oh, certainly." "Did you know what method Mr. Jardine was about to pursue to force us to heat your apartment before any one else asked for heat?" "I suggested it to him," I said, gently. "You sug Well, of course. Hum! I see."
The sill was three or four feet above the ground, and for a moment one was at a loss for an explanation of this exceptional altitude, till ruts immediately beneath sug- gested that the door was used solely for the passage of articles and persons to and from the level of a vehicle standing on the outside.
This practice is especially common among imperfectly educated people who are ambitious of speaking correctly, and have unfortunately no better standard of 'correctness' than that of conformity with the spelling. I remember hearing a highly-intelligent working-class orator repeatedly pronounce the word suggest as 'sug jest'. Such vagaries as this are not likely ever to be generally adopted.
Whether it was sug- gested by Bathsheba's recent act of promotion or not, the farmer proposed at the interview that Gabriel should undertake the superintendence of the Lower Farm as well as of Bathsheba's, because of the necessity Boldwood felt for such aid, and the impossibility of discovering a more trustworthy man. Gabriel's malig- nant star was assuredly setting fast.
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