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The thought of danger resuscitates Corkey. He finds some sailors, tells them how he was elected to Congress, slaps them on the back, tries to split the bar with his fist, a feat which has often won votes, and tightens his heart with raw Canadian whisky. "Going to be rough, Corkey." "'Spose so," nods Corkey. "Is she pretty good?" "The Africa?" "Um-huh!" "Oh, well, she's toted me often enough.
Nobody, better than Napoleon, knows how to make a good bargain, that is to say, to give a little in order to gain a great deal. In this treaty with the Church he tightens his purse-strings and especially avoids parting with his ready money.
The close and unprejudiced observer notices, however, that what the speaker has gained in eloquence, loquacity and exuberance of style and expres-sion, he has lost in logic, clearness and good sense. As King Alcohol tightens his grasp on the merry company, the toasters and speakers lose more and more their control over speech and actions.
The merchant gathers his flowing party-colored robes about him, tightens the turban head, and draws calmly at his water-pipe while a bevy of Hindu and Tamil women bargain for a new stud for their noses, a showy amulet, or a silver ring for their toes.
The Diamond is good because it holds firmly, is a great flattener, and is especially adapted to the securing of square boxes. It is celebrated because it is pretty and rather difficult to learn. Also it possesses the advantage for single-handed packing that it can be thrown slack throughout and then tightened, and that the last pull tightens the whole hitch.
Every exertion to meet it only tightens the text, like a rope, around the neck of the belief in the historical Jesus. Our desire, in engaging in this argument, is to turn the thought and love of the world from a mythical being, to humanity, which is both real and present. On page 22 of The Debate, we say: "St.
But as the affinity between those chemical opposites chlorine and hydrogen, is promoted by caloric; so the affinity between Borabolla and Jarl was promoted by the warmth of the wine that they drank at this feast. For of all blessed fluids, the juice of the grape is the greatest foe to cohesion. True, it tightens the girdle; but then it loosens the tongue, and opens the heart.
"If you want to test the law, go ahead," he said. "I'm in Nevada as you know very well. If you want to shoot, you may get me but I can promise that I'll get you, too. The first man of you that tightens a trigger will get his. Go to it!" An officer who is on the right side of the law is thereby fortified and may proceed with confidence. If he is killed, his killer commits murder.
"No," he said; "my foot is caught in a fork among the boughs, and if you draw, it only tightens it." A dead silence ensued. What was to be done? I could not answer the question, and I knew that everything depended upon how long I could hold on. Was all our effort to result in failure after all?
Morning and night I send down the moss-grown bucket with its urgent message from a dry and dusty world; the chain tightens through my hand as the liquid treasure responds to the messenger, and then with creak and jangle the welcome of labouring earth the bucket slowly nears the top and disperses the treasure in the waiting vessels.
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