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There have been times when I felt real squeamish—and a bit underhanded, you might say. On the other hand, I submit that it was not altogether reprehensible on my part to air them occasionally—and to see that the moths didn't—" "Air them? For goodness' sake, Wade, speak plainly. Why shouldn't you air your own clothes? They are very nice looking and they must have cost you a pretty penny.
I made motions of hand and face as nearly suggestive of underhanded cunning as I could compass, and climbed out through the window without further invitation. Seeing me emerge, Fred beckoned from fifty yards away and turned his back.
Cheaper to dump the cartridges an' shells than the rifles an' shotguns. "You see," he went on, "Deming ain't quit. That's one thing with a man who's streaked with yeller, when he gits licked in the open an' knows he's licked proper, he tries to git even underhanded. He knows jest as well as I do that Carlsen was lyin' that time about there bein' no more shells.
Holbrook; and he has kept himself in the background so persistently up to this point, and has been altogether so underhanded in his proceedings, that I have by no means a good opinion of him. Mr. Nowell told me that he intended to leave his money to his granddaughter in such a manner, that it would be hers and hers only free from the control of any husband. He has done so, I presume?" "Yes," Mr.
Why, the thing's a tissue of lies, I tell you a beastly, underhanded, backbiting tissue of lies, and if ever I get out of this thing alive, I'll show Borkins exactly what I think of him. And why you should give credence to the story of a lying servant, rather than to mine, I cannot see at all.
For although Herbert Pryce had been long since dismissed by Connie, he had not yet returned to the side of the eldest Miss Hooper. "I don't like such ways," said Mrs. Hooper, with sparkling eyes. "It was ill-bred and underhanded of Connie not to tell us at once I shall certainly speak to her about it!" "It makes us look such fools," said Alice, her mouth pursed and set. "I told Mr.
Ku Sui controlled the isuan drug trade, and Carse was against it, as he was against everything underhanded and unclean; Ku Sui had tricked and, by a single deed, driven Carse's loved comrade, Master Scientist Eliot Leithgow, from his honored position on Earth, and Carse was sworn to bring Ku Sui to Earth to clear the old scientist's name.
Alwa was a soldier, born to take instant advantage of chance sent opportunity; Jaimihr was a schemer, born to indecision and the cunning that seeks underhanded means but overlooks the obvious.
Belle, darling, are not Roger's friends better than those underhanded fellows who could not look mamma in the eyes?" "Oh, Millie," said the impulsive girl with a rush of tears, "don't speak of those horrid days. I was an ignorant, reckless fool I was almost beside myself with despair and unhappiness; I could kiss Roger's hands from gratitude.
"That's right," said the man, with a smile that was a little less pleasant than his scowl. "I'm a fisherman too." "Oh, are yer?" said Bob. "Yes, that's what I am." "He ain't after us," whispered Bob. "It's all right." Dexter did not feel as if it was. He had an innate dislike to the man, who looked furtive and underhanded. "Got a tidy boat there," said the man at last.
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