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We freely acknowledge him to be the inventor of the compass, of gunpowder, and the circulation of the blood; but I challenge any of his admirers to show me in all his writings a complete account of the spleen. Does he not also leave us wholly to seek in the art of political wagering?
If they were present and saw my father sign the transfer there is an end to the whole affair." The other nodded. "I would not mind wagering a hundred pounds to one that you find that they were not present."
And I'm wagering an anchor to a fish-hook that you'll be glad you stationed me over on that neck of sand." Major Woodruff led the way back into the cabin. There he examined the chart, with a start of astonishment. "The fellow was marking down all our mine positions," came savagely from between the Army officer's teeth. Then he picked up the book.
Leaving this place, we entered the next gaming-hall, when our man again bet nineteen dollars alce on the first card. Again he won, and we went the length of the street, Runt wagering nineteen dollars alce on the first card for ten consecutive times without losing a bet.
"When it comes to wagering money," observed Rackliff wisely, "the fellow who bets on sympathy or loyalty is a chump. I always back my judgment and try to use some common sense about it. I hope you don't think for a fleeting moment that I contemplate finishing my preparatory school education in this stagnant hole. Not for little Herbert. I'd get paresis here in less than a year.
The winner of the local races had always been ridden by Tony, and he had been known to lose the whole of his shearing earnings at euchre and win them back, together with all the money on the board, by wagering his next year's cheque.
Concerning that glove: well! the handsomest young man in France wore the glove of the loveliest woman. The loveliest? The very loveliest in the purity of her French style the woman to challenge England for a type of beauty to eclipse her. It was possible to conceive her country wagering her against all women.
Virochana said, "Staking all the gold, kine, horses, and every other kind of wealth that we have among the Asuras, let us, O Sudhanwan, ask them this question that are able to answer." Sudhanwan said,"'Let alone your gold, kine, and heroes, O Virochana. Making our lives forfeited, we will ask them this question that are competent." Virochana said, "Wagering our lives where shall we go?
"Let us be merry," said Zopyrus, "for I believe it will soon be up with all our merriment. I would lay my life, that we are all of us dead by to-morrow. Pity that men haven't got more than one neck; if we'd two, I would not mind wagering a gold piece or two on the chance of our remaining alive."
Rounder at each inspection, he preaches to mankind from the text of a finger curved upon the pattern spectacles. Your Frenchmen are revolutionising, wagering on tentative politics; your Germans ploughing in philosophy, thumbing classics, composing music of a novel order: both are marching, evolutionising, learning how to kill. Ridiculous Germans! capricious Frenchmen!
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