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Tricksy outriggers, ready to upset on narrow keel, were held firmly for the sculler to step daintily into his place. A strong eight shot by up the stream, the men all pulling together as if they had been one animal. A strong sculler shot by down the stream, his giant arms bare and the muscles visible as they rose, knotting and unknotting with the stroke.
His familiar and most tricksy spirit, Bishop- Archduke Leopold, played at once on his fears and his resentments, against the ever encroaching, ever menacing, Protestantism of Germany, with which he had just sealed a compact so bitterly detested. That bold and bustling prelate, brother of the Queen of Spain and of Ferdinand of Styria, took post from Prague in the middle of July.
Having a mint of phrases in his own brain, well might he speak with the contempt he does of those "fools who for a tricksy word defy the matter;" that is, slight or disregard it. He never needed to do that. Words were "correspondent to his command, and, Ariel-like, did his spiriting gently."
The Piedmontese once over the Ticino, how can you act in opposition to it? You must learn to take a master. The king is only, or he appears, tricksy because you compel him to wind and counterplot. I swear to you, Italy is his foremost thought. The Star of Italy sits on the Cross of Savoy." Ammiani kept his eyelids modestly down. "Ten thousand to plead for him, such as you!" he said.
They tried to explain, but Tricksy's eyes were full of contempt, and her small figure seemed to grow taller with offended dignity. 'Such a nice hiding-place, she said; 'and now you've gone and spoilt it all. 'Don't be a little silly, Tricksy, said Reggie to her in an undertone; and Tricksy allowed her dignity to subside.
The dug-out, the most tricksy craft afloat, rocked violently in the commotion and threatened to capsize. Then, as it finally righted, its course was hastily changed, and under the impetus of panic terror it went shooting down the river at a tremendous speed. "Why, what does all this meant" demanded Gordon. "Don't ye talk ter me, boss!" the boatman, with chattering teeth, adjured his passenger.
A moment he stood still, as if holding silent commune with the spirit of music, the tricksy Ariel imprisoned in the old wooden case; then he began to play "Rosin the Beau." As he played, he kept his eyes fixed on the bend of the road some rods ahead, as if expecting every moment to see some one appear from the direction of the village.
'And I've been trying to keep my feet out of the way, said Tricksy, rather dolefully, 'but one has to put them somewhere, you know. 'Have you been so uncomfortable? said Harry, looking round with serene unconsciousness; 'Hamish's boots are rather big. A smile travelled round the group as the lines were hastily wound up. 'You'll feel better after tea, said Hamish soothingly.
He associated Cecilia strangely with the political labours she would have had him relinquish; and Renee with a pleasant state of indolence, that her lightest smile disturbed. Shun comparisons. It is the tricksy heart which sets up that balance, to jump into it on one side or the other.
It used to be said that Fortune was blind, but I believe that she is only short-sighted or tricksy, and that she has lately bought a good pair of glasses which enabled her to discover in the town of Havre the son of our worthy friend Roland, skipper of the Pearl." Every one cried bravo and clapped their hands, and the elder Roland rose to reply.
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