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"Drop it, or I'll kill you!" Down came his fist with a fearful smash on the other's gaping mouth. A splutter of oaths was his reply, and an even greater effort to throw the white man off. But the effort was unavailing. Then Kate saw something happen. The big white man changed his tactics. He desisted quite suddenly from belaboring his victim. He made no attempt to defend himself.
Uncle Jake had sufficient wit to take this opportunity of changing his tactics. "No," he said, "some people is terrible narrer; for my part I always believe in wimmen holdin' their own opinion." "So long as they didn't run contrary to yours," said grandma with a sniff. "There's heaps more like you.
Then, on seeing Vignon who like a cool gamester had made a point of attending the wedding in order to show people that he was superior to fortune the Minister detained him, and made much of him, partly as a matter of tactics, for in spite of everything he could not help fearing that the future might belong to that young fellow, who showed himself so intelligent and cautious.
"That is to say, I was under the impression that there had been some unusual agility in operation. I heard something that sounded like scuffling." "Yes, sir," replied Mr. Hepson; "I think it very likely. The men on this deck, sir, can't think of anything in these days but line-ups and scrimmage tactics." "It occurred to me," went on the O.C., "that there was some sound of scuffling in this room."
For Sarah Austen had had a morality of her own, and on occasions had given expression to extreme views. "She's not playin' with you?" was Euphrasia's next question, and her tone boded ill to any young person who would indulge in these tactics with Austen. He shook his head again, and smiled at her vehemence. "No, she's not playing with me she isn't that kind.
A part of the tactics of the whig leaders was to excite personal animosity against the Duke of Wellington, who was libelled as a sort of would-be military dictator, seeking to introduce in civil affairs the iron discipline of the camp, and to ride rough shod over a free people.
Of course she had put two and two together, my visits to Elkington and my manner, which I had flattered myself had not been distrait. On the chance that she knew more, from some source, I changed my tactics. "I suppose you mean Maude Hutchins," I said. Nancy laughed. "So that's her name!" "It's the name of a girl in Elkington.
It was to be hoped, therefore, that with the expected speedy failure of U-boat tactics, Herr von Bethmann-Hollweg would snatch at the next opportunity of making peace.
If this mental attitude and the tactics based on it succeed, they must, it may be argued, spread with constantly increasing rapidity; and just as, by Gresham's Law in commerce, base coin, if there is enough of it, must drive out sterling coin, so in politics, must the easier and more immediately effective drive out the more difficult and less effective method of appeal.
"Well, if you don't take me, I will go alone!" she said defiantly; then she suddenly changed her tactics, and added with childish insistence: "But you are going to take me now, aren't you? Please?" He could scarcely believe his senses when, a few minutes later, he found himself frantically struggling into a rented bathing-suit in a steaming little bath-house that gave evidence of recent use.
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