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For some time they continued the argument, and then the intervals between one statement and the next became longer and longer, and they spoke more speculatively and less pugnaciously, and at last fell silent. Katharine went over the argument in her mind, remembering how, now and then, it had been set conspicuously on the right course by some remark offered either by James or by Johnnie.
"Oh, of course you would rather have all your furniture new, than part new and part old," said Mrs. Van Dorn; "but, as you say, you can't do everything at once." Mrs. Van Dorn was inclined at times to be pugnaciously truthful, when she heard any one else lie.
He put his hand in his pocket, failed to find what he wanted, and rushing past me went blundering noisily and pugnaciously downstairs. But I did not follow him. I sat on the head of the staircase until his return. "Presently he came up again, still muttering. He opened the door of the room, and before I could enter, slammed it in my face.
Ledwith has a name which my memory connects with treasonable doings and sayings. He must remain for a few hours at least in the jail." "This is not at all pleasant," said Captain Sydenham pugnaciously. "I could have let these friends of my friends go without troubling you about them. I wished to make it easier for them to travel to Dublin by bringing them before you, and here is my reward."
A great white-and-yellow, blunt-faced, pale-eyed dog, his neck surrounded by a spiked collar, stood there sniffing and looking savage, his feathery tail cocked up pugnaciously over his back. "Sebastiano!" called Lucrezia, leaning out of the window under the awning "Sebastiano!" Then she drew back laughing, and squatted down on the floor, concealed by the window-seat.
Roland clenched both fists and thrust his chin out pugnaciously. "I'd been a-goin' steady with Josie Lockwood for more'n a year before you come here and thought that, on account of her money, you could sneak in and cut me out...." "Was her money the reason you were after her, Roly?" "What ?" The question brought Roland momentarily up in the wind.
"I wasn't talking about the profession," said the doctor; "I was talking of the man who has to grind his way through it. It's a dog's life. Neither your body nor your soul are your own. Oh, well, maybe you'll like it." "You seem to," remarked James rather pugnaciously. "I? What can I do, young man, but stick to it whether I like it or not? What would they do?
For four hours in the morning we scrubbed the gun deck, washed the white paint work with fresh water and soap, scrubbed the deck with stiff "kiyi" brushes, and polished off the bright work. By noon the deck had its pristine immaculate look. "What do you think of this?" he inquired pugnaciously.
She has just made a good one: 'P is a pie-man, portly and proud, pugnaciously prattling' What's the rest of it, godmother? You tell them. I have forgotten." But Mrs. Sherman's rhyme was broken short in an astonished exclamation, as her glance fell on the Little Colonel. "Why, Lloyd Sherman!" she cried. "What have you been doing?
In the end he was made to agree not to tell her. "We aren't going to let you and your idealism spoil our only chance to save the race!" Sorplee told him pugnaciously; and Somat gave his word.
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