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Consequently, the contrivances for stringing together dependent clauses don't exist. Then some wiseacre of an 18th or 19th century German writes a grammar on the assumption that a paulo-post-futurum is necessarily to be provided for the unfortunate Israelite who thought and talked child's language. Now, we Melanesians habitually think and speak such languages.
But now for Jack and what the day held for him of wonders and surprises. Some pessimistic wiseacre has said that all the dire and dreadful things in life drop out of a clear sky; that it is the unexpected which is to be feared, and that the unknown bridges are the ones in which dangers lurk and where calamity is to be feared.
Pedestrians stare curiously at the trio as, talking and laughing in high spirits, they cross the pavement to the building's entrance. "Desert rats mining folks," observes a wiseacre to his friend. "Look at the girl and the chaps! Peach, eh? That's the life! Ho-hum! Gotta get back to the old office, Bill. See you to-night at lodge, I s'pose. S'long!"
The verbal comments and Solomon-like opinions, given in expressive pantomime, of this latter garrulous gathering concerning the machine and myself, I can of course but partly understand; but occasionally some wiseacre suddenly becomes inflated with the idea that he has succeeded in unravelling the knotty problem, and forthwith proceeds to explain, for the edification of his fellow-passengers, the modus operandi of riding it, supplementing his words by the most extraordinary gestures.
She left him, and he with no undue haste for the business, after all, was not his own began to follow out his train of thought, in manner much as follows: "This is that old Duncombe's writing 'Dunder-headed Duncombe, as he used to be called in his lifetime, but 'Long-headed Duncombe' afterward. None but his wife knew whether he was a wise man, or a wiseacre.
The old polyphonists he never tried to rival, but in the style of music he wrote no composer has gone or can go higher than he. A wiseacre has said that he left a sterile monument. It may be that monuments in the British Museum blow and blossom and reproduce their kind: outside they do not.
It never occurs to us to disguise the genuine flavour of food; if such a process be necessary, then something is wrong with the food itself. Some wiseacre scoffed at us as the people with only one sauce. The fact is, we have as many sauces as we have kinds of meat; each, in the process of cookery, yields its native sap, and this is the best of all sauces conceivable.
"Didn't I say," said he, "the laws that govern them?" "Well, where are them laws writ?" "In that are receipt-book o' yourn you're so proud of," said he. "What do you call it, Mr Wiseacre?" "Then, you admit," sais I, "any fool can't answer that question?" "Perhaps you can," sais he. "Oh Dad!" sais I, "you picked up that shot and throwed it back.
"What does that poor child know? Oh, find him for me, if you love that dear child's mother!" Sir Charles hurried out directly, but was met at the door by a servant, who blurted out, "The men have dragged the fish-ponds, Sir Charles, and they want to know if they shall drag the brook." "Hold your tongue, idiot!" cried Sir Charles, and thrust him out; but the wiseacre had not spoken in vain.
Next to the fact that no women were allowed in the "What Cheer House," was the further more astounding proposition that the place was run on absolutely temperance principles, thus, for the time at least, silencing that hoary adage of the genus wiseacre that no hotel can succeed without a bar.
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