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As we were closing up to them we spotted a floating mine which must have been passed touch-and-go during the night by all those warships and troopships.
The indignation of Mr. Bullet-head at these scandalous insinuations, I shall not attempt to describe. On the eel-skinning principle, however, he did not seem to be so much incensed at the attack upon his integrity as one might have imagined. It was the sneer at his style that drove him to desperation. What! he Touch-and-go Bullet-head! not able to write a word without an O in it!
They say hearts are often caught on the rebound, and if all ill-treated suitors spoke out warmly yet sternly like Sam Winnington, and did not merely fence about and either sneer or whine, more young fools might be saved, even when at touch-and-go with their folly, after the merciful fate of Clary and to the benefit of themselves and of society.
It was a touch-and-go matter to get through, for in every direction there were coral-reefs, which would pretty soon have brought us up if we had run on them; but we had look-outs at the jib-boom-end and the topsail-yard-arms, and as the water was clear, and the weather fine, we escaped all danger.
'Go on! he grunted. 'The minute he lays hands on Master Bobby, Master Bobby's saved. But that person ought to be told how near he came to being assaulted. It was touch-and-go with me all the time from the soup down, I assure you. I arrived breathless with the sacks and the ropes. 'They were two to one with me, said Mr. Wontner, as he took them. 'If they wake 'We'll stand by, Stalky replied.
But Aline seemed to have a difficulty in getting away from the subject. "And you what do you read?" she asked timidly. "Sometimes one thing and sometimes another. To-day I see him as a living refutation of all the copy-book rules to success. He shatters the maxims with a touch-and-go manner that is fascinating in its immorality.
However, the consequence of this folly was, that in two or three days, I had to be sent home to my button-headed family in a high state of fever, and with a most violent and dangerous pain in the sinciput, all around about my organ of order. It was nearly a gone case with me then just touch-and-go for six weeks the physicians giving me up and all that sort of thing.
Billy was sure enough dropped and deserted. But when I found him the little calf could run and notice like everything!" "I should hate your contract, Lin," said I. "Adopting's a touch-and-go business even when a man has a home." "I'll fill the contract, you bet! I wish the little son-of-a-gun was mine. I'm a heap more natural to him than that pair of drunkards that got him.
'There's genteel comedy in your walk and manner, juvenile tragedy in your eye, and touch-and-go farce in your laugh, said Mr Vincent Crummles. 'You'll do as well as if you had thought of nothing else but the lamps, from your birth downwards. Nicholas thought of the small amount of small change that would remain in his pocket after paying the tavern bill; and he hesitated.
There is the light touch-and-go play about topics more or less profound that is as agreeable as heat-lightning in a sultry evening. In the freedom of real conversation the mind throws out half-thoughts, paradoxes, for which a man is not to be held strictly responsible to the very roots of his being, and which need to be caught up and played with in the same tentative spirit.
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