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He was irritated by Val's grave superior dignity, and deep and unacknowledged there was working in him the instinct of the bully, the love of cruelty, overlaid by layer on layer of civilization, of chivalry, of decency, yet native to the human heart and quick to reassert itself at any age: in the boy who thrashes a smaller boy, in the young man who takes advantage of a woman, in the fighter who hounds down surrendered men.
It is less severe than the "brave" west winds of our own North Atlantic; but to a small vessel like the Iroquois, with the machinery of the day, the monsoon, blowing at times a three-quarters gale, was not an adversary to be disregarded, for all the sunshiny, bluff heartiness with which it buffeted you, as a big boy at school breezily thrashes a smaller for his own good.
Perhaps Publius may be fortunate; but if his schoolmaster is of the ordinary type he will be an irascible loud-voiced person, who bawls and scolds and thrashes. It will be a common thing to find, as Seneca puts it, a man "in a violent passion teaching you that to be in a passion is wrong." The doctrine went that "he who is not flayed is not educated."
For them the struggle never came which holds us in a fist of brass, and thrashes us up and down the pavement of life. Perhaps can you not, at one great leap, fancy it? two sincere souls could escape from this brass master, and live, unmindful of strife, for a little grave on a hillside in the end?
He was attended by one who was dressed as a clergyman, but who was, as I am told, none other than Hooper the Tinman, who acts as his bully and thrashes all who may offend him. Together they passed down the central path, insulting the women and browbeating the men. They actually hustled me. I was offended, sir so much so that I nearly took the matter in hand then and there."
"You see," he framed the conclusion for her, "how hard he makes it for us to keep him out of trouble if that gets out. He's put his hand on the live wire of circumstantial evidence, a wire that too often thrashes about, striking the wrong man." "And Berne?" she cried out. "I think I could stand anything if only I knew " But this time the mutinous sobs came crowding past her lips.
Captain Lebyadkin thrashes that precious sister of his, the mad girl, every day with a whip, a real Cossack whip, every morning and evening. So Alexey Nilibch has positively taken the lodge so as not to be present. Well, good-bye." "A sister? An invalid? With a whip?" Stepan Trofimovitch cried out, as though he had suddenly been lashed with a whip himself. "What sister? What Lebyadkin?"
At this narrative Antinous covered his face with both hands, and murmured in terror: "Frightful, frightful! What can be hanging over us? Only listen, how it thunders, and the rain thrashes the tent." "The clouds are pouring out torrents; see the water is coming in already. The slaves must dig gutters for it to run off.
"It's a shame, and I just hope Miguel thrashes you both for it," the Little Doctor told them more than once; but she laughed, nevertheless, and showed Pink how to give the twist which made of each lock a corkscrew ringlet. The Countess stopped, with her dishcloth dangling from one red, bony hand, while she looked.
BATTLEDORE BARLEY. This is a fine grain, but very tender, and not now in cultivation in this country. NAKED BARLEY. The two first species sometimes produce a variety which thrashes out of the husks similar to wheat: these are very heavy and fine grain, but they are not in cultivation: for what reason I know not. PANICUM miliaceum. MILLET. Millet is of two kinds, the brown and yellow.
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