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He brought along in his precious chest, besides the radium, some sort of raw material: also, as near as I could make out, a sort of cage or guardianship scheme for his concentrated essence of cussedness, when he should get it out of the volcano. "In the first seven months he puttered around the little fumers, with an occasional excursion up to the main crater.
In this state, one cannot recover for trespass unless one keeps one's fences in repair and Loustalot used to trespass on our range quite frequently and then blame his cussedness on our fences.
"I'll say the best way to keep 'em contented is to feed 'em good, treat 'em as if they was human, an' in general give 'em a more or less free rein, dependin' on their g-general habits an' cussedness.
"Well," said Nott, cautiously, "ez I reckon the hide of a dead Chinee nigger ain't any more vallyble than that of a dead Injin, I don't care ef I let up on yer seein' the cussedness ain't yours. But ef I let yer off this once, you must take a message to Ferrers from me." "Let me off this time, boss, and I swear to God I will," said the Lascar eagerly.
Just as God, the Constructive Force, had none. It was, as God was. It is and always will be, while God and nature are. It rides the whirlwind and the flood, and differentiates itself through the smallest minutia of the affairs of human life. It is the primeval element, the "pure cussedness" which has to be conquered, or adjusted in every human being.
It was a week before she saw him again, and all the time she was aching to follow him. But she knew she could not walk so far and, with a stern cussedness typical of her father, she went on with Louis's work, not mentioning to the Twists that he was away, though they all wondered what had happened to him. She burned the gorse as though it were whisky, almost savagely.
"You know how Gulden gets when them spells come over him. It's just plain cussedness. I've seen gunfighters lookin' for trouble for someone to kill. But Gulden was worse than that. You all take my hunch he's got a screw loose in his nut. "'Cleve, he said, 'I located the Brander gold-diggin's an' the girl was there. "Some kind of a white flash went over Cleve.
"I was fighting out of cussedness at first. Now I'm fighting for her and to keep what is ours!" "I've learned that the greatest, most desperate attack of all is coming," Marta told Lanstron. "But I don't know at what point. I see Westerling only when he comes into the garden, and he does not come so frequently of late."
Or the engineer, again, on the Mississippi, who, when the steamer caught fire, held, as he had sworn he would, her bow against the bank, till every soul save he got safe on shore: Through the hot black breath of the burning boat Jim Bludso's voice was heard; And they all had trust in his cussedness, And knew he would keep his word.
Deuced odd that while the dumb understand the whole show the person who's describing it quite accurately to them often knows nothing about it. Paradox, irony, blasted eternal cussedness of life! Did you ever know Lady Ulford?" "No." "She was a horse-dealer's daughter." "Rupert!" "On my honour!
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