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It's no use, darling; we shouldn't like it." "That's all you know about it," said Winn, unappeasably. "Anyhow, we're going to do it, whether you like it or not." Then she took her hands away from his shoulders and leaned back in her chair. He had never seen her look so frail and small, and he knew that she had never been so formidably strong. "Oh, no, Winn," she whispered; "I'm not.
And what a personage she had grown in these twelve months how formidably, consciously brilliant in look and dress and manner! Yes, he was still in town settled there, indeed, for some time. And she was there any special day on which Mrs. Leyburn received visitors? He asked the question, of course, with various hesitations and circumlocutions. 'Oh dear, yes!
Roderick, up to this moment, had been looking as unperturbed as if the deep agitation of the day before were a thing of the remote past. But at these words his face changed formidably; he flushed and scowled, and all his passion returned. "Try to work!" he cried. "Try try! work work! In God's name don't talk that way, or you 'll drive me mad! Do you suppose I 'm trying not to work?
"Yes," said Jimmy Powers, dryly. "By the way, did you fellows ever square up on that birling match?" "No," said Jimmy Powers; then after an instant, "Not yet." I glanced at him to recognise the square set to the jaw that had impressed me so formidably the year before. And again his face relaxed almost quizzically as he caught sight of mine.
All would have been well if Bud Wiler, comedian of the Providence team, had not hit upon a way to rattle Rube. "Nanny's Goat!" he shouted from the coaching lines. Every Providence player took it up. The Rube was not proof against that. He yelled so fiercely at them, and glared so furiously, and towered so formidably, that they ceased for the moment.
Thus, then, in a short time English interests in India might be menaced more formidably than ever before, and the crushing out of the French colony, almost at the gates of Calcutta, was a measure of extreme importance.
The Master paused, and took off his great round spectacles. I could not help thinking that he looked benevolent enough to pardon Judas Iscariot just at that moment, though his features can knot themselves up pretty, formidably on occasion. You are somewhat of a phrenologist, I judge, by the way you talk of instinctive and inherited tendencies I said.
To keep order in this formidably armed crowd of men, many animated with the fiercest racial and religious hatred of each other, are some dozen Montenegrin gendarmes, armed, as is every Montenegrin, with but a heavy revolver.
All the same, he amuses me and interests me and you are not to talk about him, Nora, if you can't talk civilly." And looking rather formidably great-ladyish, Constance threw severe glances at her cousin. Nora stood up, first on one foot, then on the other. She was bursting with things to say, and could not find words to say them in. At last she broke out "I'm not abusing him for nothing!
But the annexation would no doubt have formidably increased the power of the Crown, not only by extending its dominions, but by removing that which was a support often of aristocratic anarchy in England, but sometimes of rudimentary freedom.
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