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He was succeeded by George C. Meade, "four-eyed George," as he was playfully called by his loyal soldiers, in allusion to his eyeglasses. It was only a few days later that the great battle of Gettysburg was fought under Meade, and a brilliant victory was achieved. But here, as at Antietam, the triumph was bitterly marred by the disappointment that followed.
You see, I " "I thought you were an engineer?" "I am after a fashion. Graduate of Yale " "Ever had any actual, practical experience?" "Only field work in college." "Ever had any experience handlin' men? Ever bossed a gang of men?" "No." "Ever do any kind of construction work?" "In college " "Forget what you did with a four-eyed professor standin' over you!
They could not have been jammed artificially into the hollow wood in that way without injuring them. We have heard of blind fish, but here is one called by the Indians tralhote, and known to naturalists as the Anableps tetraophthalmus, signifying "four-eyed" possessing four eyes.
"What does she look like?" "How old is she?" "I never asked her age," replied Chip, his face lighting briefly in a smile. "As to her looks, she isn't cross-eyed, and she isn't four-eyed. That's as much as I noticed." After this bald lie he became busy with his cigarette. "Give me that magazine, Cal. I didn't finish cutting the leaves."
"Shorty" was a jolly, ugly open-handed, four-eyed little snipe of a roughneck machinist who had lost "in the line of duty" two fingers highly useful in his trade. In consequence he was now, after the generous fashion of the I.C.C., on full pay for a year without work, providing he did not leave the Zone.
You're the only chance I've got, if Culver don't show, and the first law of nature ain't never been repealed." "Self-protection, eh?" "Exactly." Glass coughed thrice without result, stepped off the prayerrug, rolled it up tightly; then, hugging it beneath his arm, went on: "That four-eyed guy slipped me a whole lot of feed- box information. Why, he's a killer, Wally!
Over six feet tall, with a slight stoop, he wore the bright yellow jacket denoting his high rank, a viceroy's cap with a four-eyed peacock feather attached to it by amber fastenings, and a beautifully coloured skirt of rich material.
"Ya-as we do," answered Tenspot, "if yu hasn't dreamed about it, we do." "Yu wait; I wasn't dreamin', none whatever," assured Tex. "I saw it!" "Ya-as, I saw it too onct," replied Frenchy with sarcasm. "Went and lugged fifty pound of it all th' way to th' assay office took me two days! an' that there four-eyed cuss looks at it and snickers. Then he takes me by di' arm an' leads me to th' window.
"Nope," says I. "He'll be waitin' for the closing quotations, won't he? But there's that four-eyed guy with the whiskers who's been hangin' around a couple of hours." "Ah!" says Mr. Robert, huntin' out a card on his desk. "That Rowley person! I'd forgotten. What does he want?" "Didn't say," says I. "Got a roll of something under one arm crank promoter, maybe. Will I ditch him?"
And now, says he, knocking his fists together, 'NOW to get square with that four-eyed thief in the stern! Come on, boys! "Him and Julius and Teunis made a flying leap aft to get at Rosy. But Rosy see 'em coming, jammed the tiller over, the boom swung across and swept the three overboard pretty as you please. "There was a scream from the yacht. Rosy give one glance at the women.
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