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"We might just as well have been as to die down here," said Chester. "Buck up, old man," said Hal. "We're not dead yet and while there's life there's hope. We've been in some ticklish positions before and pulled through all right." "We were never in a hole like this before," said Chester. Hal had made his way to one side of the pit.
It has been made a subject of complaint, that the champions of the Church, for example, who are advanced to dignities and honours, are hardly ever those who defend the common principles of Christianity, but those who volunteer to man the out-works, and set up ingenious excuses for the questionable points, the ticklish places in the established form of worship, that is, for those which are attacked from without, and are supposed in danger of being undermined by stratagem, or carried by assault!
Kaviak doubled up suddenly. "He's awful ticklish," said the Boy. Mac frowned with perplexity, and Kaviak retired to the cricket. "Does the can leak anywhere?" "That excuse won't hold water 'cause the can will." The Colonel had just applied the test. "Besides, it would have leaked on to something," Mac agreed. "Oh, well, let's mosy along with our dinner," said Potts.
"And what," he demanded, "what doth a little cavalier in a Puritan hotbed?" "I am even where God hath been pleased to set me, sir." "'Twas a ticklish place he set thee when I came up." "By your leave, sir, 'tis a higher place than I ever thought to know." M. Radisson laughed a low, mellow laugh, and, vowing I should be a court gallant, put me down before Eli Kirke's turnstile.
He has the very face for the driver in Sam Weller's anecdote, who upset the election party at the required point. Wonderful tales are current of his readiness and skill. One in particular, of how one of his horses fell at a ticklish passage of the road, and how Foss let slip the reins, and, driving over the fallen animal, arrived at the next stage with only three.
I worked very hard at the last election. I spent days distributing packages of " Then I made, I'm sorry to say, a false step. I observed, interrupting: "But it's ticklish work now, eh? Six months' 'hard' wouldn't be pleasant, would it?" "What do you mean, Mr. er Carter?" she asked. I was still blind. I believe I winked, and I'm sure I whispered, "Tea." Miss Milton drew herself up very straight.
"Many are the causes," continued the Duke, "which, besides my disposition, move me to peace. My father and mother are dead; my son is a young prince; my house has truly need of my presence. I am not ignorant how ticklish a thing is the fortune of war, which how victorious soever I have been may in one moment not only deface the same, but also deprive me of my life.
Whenever was this ticklish business of the dovetailing of two lives accomplished without some small mutual effort? No more could be said than that Carlisle felt, in rare and weak moments, a certain sense of strain. An immaterial subtlety this, properly out of the range of mamma's concrete observations.
John coughed very much at these words, no doubt the bit of mustache which he had bit off stuck in his throat. "This is a very ticklish circumstance, I must confess," continued Monori, "for although the young man's offence has thereby been considerably lightened, yet the burden of the charge has now been shifted to other shoulders hitherto quite free from suspicion.
'That shall be exactly as I choose, Sagan swore with an oath. 'By the good God we can't afford scruples to-night! After a short interval he went on. 'Once we have Gustave's word, we are safe. He is too proud to own that he gave it unwillingly. Besides, so long as we win what matter the means we use? Is your conscience so ticklish, Baron?
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