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"With a pitch to help me, I'd have done something big; as it is, three for forty-one, out of the four that fell, isn't so bad for a slow bowler on a plumb wicket against those fellows. But I felt venomous! Nothing riles me more than being asked about for my cricket as though I were a pro. myself." "Then why on earth go?"
He was the great figure among our prosecutors; the others were District Attorney Dickson and the two assistants, Mr. Varian and Mr. Riles. The square had only seemed to be broken by the recent retirement of Mr. Dickson; the strength of his purpose remained still in power, in the person of Judge Zane.
That's the way your mind works when you are with her, till it seems a plain waste of time, and riles you way down to the ground. I like a woman what, having passed up her personality, lets you alone as to further guessing 'less you have a mind to guess. Joyce!" "Yes, Jock." "They want you up to the bungalow to help along with the Christmas doings. I never saw such happenings in all my life.
The words fulfilled his fears, but the tone and glance produced a thrill of hope. It was evident that Rebecca at least favored his plans. Turning now to the younger sister, Droop asked, in a melancholy tone: "Don't you want to get rich, Cousin Phoebe?" "Rich me!" she replied, indignantly. "A mighty lot of riches it'll bring me, won't it? That's just what riles me so!
"We must count on the turning of the seasons, Mother, the great migrations, to bring him back to Sherman's Retreat." "He is not a goose, Dear." She turned to Don. "The sooner you come back, the better." "Honk," Don said, embarrassed, and added, "if you love Jesus." "I think this calls for a Riles Blaster. Don? Mother?"
Riles Blasters were made from light rum, Grand Marnier, lime juice, and other secret ingredients combined with ice and served, after great roaring from the blender, in sweating silver tumblers. Riles claimed that they prolonged life by rendering stress inoperable and irrelevant. A Riles Blaster, he pronounced, allowed one to focus on what mattered.
You or I would have shot, just as quick as he did, if a drunken Spaniard made for us with a knife. So would the Captain, or Swift, or any of the others. "I know I've got a nasty tongue when something riles me, and I lash out without stopping to think. Dade has given me the devil for that, more times than I can count. He went after me about this very thing, too, the other day.
They kept hanging around looking real foolish at him, and Jig looks back at 'em as if they wasn't there. Well, it riles the boys around these parts. Quade comes up to him and takes him aside. "'Look here, he says, 'why don't you dance with one girl instead of hogging them all? "'I don't dance, says Jig. "'Why do you stay if you won't dance? asks Quade.
The world laughs at them, and they know it and it riles them like hell ... That's why when a Graf is booted out of the Fatherland, he's got to creep back somehow or be a wandering Jew for the rest of time. Blenkiron lit another cigar and fixed me with his steady, ruminating eye. 'For eight years the man has slaved, body and soul, for the men who degraded him.
I' th' second, hangin isn't a coomfortable way o' deein. Yo wait till I coom for yo, an when we'st ha got reet away, an can just laugh in her face if she riles us, that'll spite her mich moor nor murderin. The black eyes gleamed uncannily for a moment and the sobbing ceased. But the gleam passed away, and the child sat staring at the moorland distance, seeing nothing.
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