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Their ponies were tired, and they rode them full tilt with savage recklessness, making them canter up-hill, and so needlessly fatiguing them. The Matabele, indeed, are unused to horses, and manage them but ill. It is as foot soldiers, creeping stealthily through bush or long grass, that they are really formidable.
By the up-hill walk he was quite blown, but he pressed on; and at half-past three o'clock stood by the familiar well at Marygreen. The rain was keeping everybody indoors; Jude crossed the green to the church without observation, and found the building open.
Among these men he seems to have been much respected, and his merits secured an honorary degree from St. Andrew's. His eminent social qualities favored his introduction into a society more cultivated than fashionable, and he was known as a scientific rather than a political celebrity. His mission, then, was up-hill work.
Emerson says he has "contrived to read" almost every volume of Goethe, and that he has fifty-five of them, but that he has read nothing else in German, and has not looked into him for a long time. This was in 1840, in a letter to Carlyle. It was up-hill work, it may be suspected, but he could not well be ignorant of his friend's great idol, and his references to Goethe are very frequent.
"We are half way now," said Father Tom, "we can get there before twelve o'clock." "I don't think I'm equal to it," said Father John. "I really don't think " The sounds of wheels were heard, and a peasant driving a donkey cart came up the road. "You see it is all up-hill," said Father John. "See how the road ascends. I never could manage it."
You say it must be up-hill to that ridge that meets the horizon at the east. Is it? Look over here to our left front, a little to the northeast. See that tiny lake surrounded by low, wooden buildings, and approached by the hard, beaten road from the distant town. A pleasure resort of some kind, judging from the streamers and bright flags about the place.
The trail was up-hill, and steep enough to wind even a desert racer, if put to his limit. "Look back!" cried Mescal. "Can you see them? Is Snap with them?" "I can't see for trees," replied Hare, over his shoulder. "There's dust we're far in the lead never fear, Mescal. The lead's all we want."
"Oh, that is nice nearly half a year of white snow, and sleigh-drives every day, and bells ringing all the time! I tried to make out a tune, but they only seemed to say, 'Up-hill, up-hill! down-hill, down-hill! all the way. Nurse, please tell me what are sleigh-robes made of?"
I've done better since, but it's been up-hill work, for all that." "It doesn't seem to have been very hard work," said Richard, with a meaning glance at the other's hand. "Well, no, I can't say as it's been hard; a neat touch is what is wanted in my profession." "Why, you're not a pick " Richard hesitated from motives of delicacy. "A pickpocket?
"He seems to me a queer fish for a friend of our family. In fact, our family is in pretty queer waters, with Uncle Soames marrying a Frenchwoman, and your dad marrying Soames's first. Our grandfathers would have had fits!" "So would anybody's, my dear." "This car," said Val suddenly, "wants rousing; she doesn't get her hind legs under her up-hill.
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