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Updated: June 6, 2025
I will not quit my bell-jars without saying a word on the entomological tact of the captives when they decide to attack. One of the pluckiest of my subjects, the Hairy Ammophila, was not always provided with the hereditary dish of her family, the Grey Worm. I offered her indiscriminately any bare-skinned caterpillars that I chanced to find.
Slow to action, slow of speech as was the paymaster, he was not slow to see that Sergeant Feeny was anxious and ill at ease, and if a veteran trooper whom his captain had pronounced the coolest, pluckiest, and most reliable man in the regiment, could be so disturbed over the indications, it was high time to take precaution. What was the threatened danger? Apaches?
He is a civil engineer by profession, I believe, but he is hardly the kind of man from whom one would attempt to force confidences. All I know is that he is the pluckiest fellow in the world, and the most generous and considerate. Why, one night at the Alcazar ?" and he proceeded to the eager relation of his pet story. She listened attentively, nodding her full comprehension.
Lady Darcy shed tears every morning when the burns were dressed, and said, "Oh, Peggy dear, forgive me for being cross, and do, do be sure to use the lotion for your arms regularly every day when you get better!" And the big doctor chucked her under the chin, and cried "Well, `Fighting Saville, and how are we to-day? You are the pluckiest little patient I've had for a long time.
He never looked at himself in a glass excepting to part his hair; but he had learned that something in his look tended to hearten his patients, so he gazed merrily at the cripple and said, "Now, when you're better, tell your friends Professor Ferrier said you were the pluckiest fellow he ever saw. I couldn't have borne what you did.
One of the pluckiest men in the Boer army was Arthur Donnelly, a young Irish American from San Francisco, who served in the Pretoria detective force for several years, and went to the war in one of the commandos under General Cronje.
"I went to the edge of what they call the common," she said. "I found a fence, and I vaulted over that is all. I don't like your country much, farmer; there's no space about it. But the dogs, they are darlings!" "You're the pluckiest young gel I ever come across," said the man. "How you managed to tame 'em is more than I can say.
He held the reins in his mouth, and with the unbroken arm walloped the horse, got in first, and then fainted away. It was the pluckiest thing ever seen, and won for him not only the race, but the greatest fame and his Countess, who made him promise never to ride in a race again, and he never has. She told me that many ladies fainted and men wept, so great was the excitement and enthusiasm!
He tried to give her a survey of the land. Lady Tonbridge, of course, would be calling upon her directly. She was actually in the village in the tiniest bandbox of a house. Her husband's brutality had at last two years before this date forced her to leave him, with her girl of fifteen. "A miserable story better taken for granted. She is the pluckiest woman alive!"
Her mother patted the dark head that rested against her knee. "Poor little woman! Remember it's just as hard for all the rest of us. We've each got a burden to carry at present. Suppose we see who can be pluckiest over it. We're fighting fortune now, instead of the Hun, and we must show her a brave face. Won't you march with the family regiment, and keep the colors flying?"
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