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But Lord, a bear kin dodge the sharpest boxer. That face jest wasn't there, before I could hit it. Then, five seconds more, an' it was back agin starin' at me. I wouldn't give it the satisfaction o' tryin' to swipe it agin, so I jest kept still, pretendin' to ignore it; an' in a minute or two it disappeared. But then, a minute or two more an' it was back agin.
We'll give you an Irish name by way of charity it'll help to make your classical English sound like brogue. We'll call you Coogan Michael Coogan that lets you off with plain Mike in times of stress." "Swipe me!" said the Flopper, with perfect complacence. "Glad it pleases you," smiled Doc Madison, "Here's your lay, then. You've got to remember that you were born crooked and " Helena giggled.
Now in Buffalo, which gave Cleveland to the country, and permits a nigger-loving lazar like the editor of the Distress to run at large, almost anything in petticoats, from old Sycorax to a malodorous coon, might be in some danger of assault by so-called Caucasians. There's every indication that another gigantic prize fight fake will soon make a swipe for the long green of the cibarious sucker.
"I've got to be riding," he went on quietly. "Who can lend me a saddle-horse for the night? I'll pay double what it's worth." Whitey Wimble gave his bar a long swipe with his wet towel. "If you're askin' favors, seems to me you're on the wrong side the street, ain't you, stranger?" "Meaning I am a Packard?" "You got me the firs' time. That's Packard's Town over yonder. Your crowd "
I'm lucky to be alive at all. That fellow made an awful swipe at me, and if it had hit me fair it would have been all over." "A miss is as good as a mile," put in Bart. "I had a pretty close shave myself. Seemed as though twenty star shells were going off at once." "Yesterday was your lucky day," remarked Billy. "You had two narrow escapes."
Don't take long to learn this trade." Ralph followed Mr. Quigg to a vacant wall near by, where he took a large poster, held it flat against the wall with one hand, gave a dexterous swipe or two with the brush, reversed it, then with a few more flourishes drew back and surveyed his work triumphantly. "Try a small one over yonder," he said to the boy.
Everybody brings the cunnin' old jokes out of the moth-balls when you're engaged. I'll marry you, but " "Marry me next month August?" "Nope." "September?" "Nope." "Please, Ruthie. Aw yes, September. Nice month, September is. Autumn. Harvest moon. And apples to swipe. Come on. September." "Well, perhaps September. We'll see.
Her foot dangled out in front, in full view; it was difficult to reach it without letting her slip and with her struggling. But he finally succeeded. He caught the French heel in a sudden swipe and the slipper went scudding off into the bushes. Immediately she drew the foot in to her and cried out. But not content he reached for the other.
Billy Louise pulled out a little piece, nibbled a corner, and pronounced, "M-mm! Jerky! I'm going to swipe some of that," which she proceeded to do, to the extent of filling her pocket. For to those who have learned to like it, jerked venison is quite as desirable as milk chocolate or any other nibbly tid-bit.
At last there came a day when he could stand it no longer, and when the Welshman had taken a mighty swipe at the ball with a heavy iron and made a deep excavation for several inches behind it, the club carrier moaned painfully, "O lord, man, hae mercy on puir auld Scotland!" It is said that the golfer played no more on those links.
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