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Updated: June 22, 2025
"We sure have got the upper hand in this tangle," Perk was telling himself in great glee as he listened to the chugging of the second transfer boat. "Huh! I kinder guess them guys been sleepin' at the switch not to savvy what a bully thing one o' these here silencers'd be to the smugglin' game. Looks like it might be a walk-over for our team, if the luck on'y holds good."
"You wanted to get here in time to be at the auction sale of that broke-down circus, and you'll miss a good thing if you go. The horses are in bad shape, owing to poor feeding and hard use, but there's big come-out in 'em. Nobody else here will have the ready money, and you'd have a clean walk-over." "What else have they got besides hosses?"
"I guess I shan't get a chance, but I'll try it if I do." The door opened and the policeman reappeared. "Time's up, I reckon." "Well, good-bye, Comrade Windsor," said Psmith regretfully. "Abstain from undue worrying. It's a walk-over from now on, and there's no earthly need for you to be around the office. Once, I admit, this could not have been said. But now things have simplified themselves.
The stabs, through their very generosity, are so deep and they come so fast!" Three days before the election each of two thousand voters suddenly found himself in possession of a prized memento one of the renowned bogus double-eagles. It revived the recent vast laugh and concentrated it upon Pinkerton; and Harkness's election was a walk-over.
On the nearer slope, perhaps a sixteenth of a mile away, a negro was ploughing, with a single ox harnessed in some primitive manner, with pieces of wood, for the most part, as well as I could make out through an opera-glass. The soil offered the least possible hindrance, and both he and the ox seemed to be having a literal "walk-over."
"I'm glad of that," said George. "It would be a nuisance not to be able to prove one's own identity." That seemed to satisfy them all. They couldn't get away from it. It seemed to me that from now on the thing was a walk-over.
And in Marjorie they had an excellent captain, resourceful and confident of success, whose calm assurance inspired them. From the opening stroke when Marjorie, the center forward, sent the ball at one bound across the field to her left forward, who dodged the opposing half-back, the game seemed almost a walk-over for Miss Allen's girls.
"Not a damn thing to be seen." "Our men ought to have a walk-over," said an optimist. "Any living German must be a gibbering idiot with shell-shock." "I expect they're playing cards in their dugouts," said the officer who was bored. "Even high explosives don't go down very deep." "It's stupendous, all the same. By God! hark at that! It seems more than human. It's like some convulsion of nature."
For a moment I simply could n't speak, but clasping the tighter my precious ticket, I swallowed heroically at the lump in my throat, while Murray, unmindful of my silence, continued. "You see, Jack, after I left you, I got it straight from a friend of mine that Maid Marian was out of condition, which left the race, it seemed to me, a walk-over for Senator Irby.
The nation began to see that it was not to be the "walk-over" so confidently expected; disasters occurred, long sieges wore the folk at home even as those in the beleaguered towns, growls against the Government were raised, people talked of "muddling through," and every barrel-organ in the land ground out "Soldiers of the Queen" and "The Absent-minded Beggar."
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