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Yet no charge has been more often repeated and has caused more piteous protests among the soft-hearted and soft-headed editors of Continental journals. The absence of Colenbrander in the Rustenburg country gave Beyers a chance of which he was not slow to avail himself.
Sometimes he employs the oil and powder mixed, sometimes the powder only, but in so small a quantity that, when the lingot which I made was rubbed all over with it, it did not show at all." This soft-headed priest was by no means the only person in the neighbourhood who lost his wits in hopes of the boundless wealth held out by this clever impostor.
There were actually tears in the bold woman's eyes, as the soft-headed and soft-hearted girl twined her arms about her neck.
He ain't old an' the soft-headed kind last longer than keener folks: it would fit int' your ways right proper. Mrs. Jo G.'s girl couldn't stand it. She is so brisk an' contrivin', an' Mrs.
I don't know about saying now it's a bit weak," said Bob, with a comical smile, "because you always were a soft-headed sort of fellow. That's better. Now you've cooled down." "Yes," said Mark, with a smile, "and I shall soon be better now." "That's your style. All my doing. I say, Van, old chap, I'll take to doctoring you now; so kick old Whitney over, and leave it to me.
Why, Skinner, a man might as well retire from business when he gets so weak and feeble and soft-headed he doesn't know how to protect himself in the clinches and break-aways." Mr. Skinner smiled. "The old dog for the cold scent," he suggested. "You bet," Cappy cackled triumphantly. "Skinner, my dear boy, what are we paying you?" "Ten thousand a year, sir." "Not enough money.
The worst of it was that he had come back as soft-headed as he went, and try as we might, we couldn't get anything reasonable out of him. He talked a lot of gibberish about keelhauling and walking the plank and crimson murders things which a decent sailor should know nothing about, so that it seemed to me that for all his manners captain had been more of a pirate than a gentleman mariner.
He had turned on purpose, and putting his hands upon my shoulders, he said, "Hamlyn, Hamlyn, you have taught me a lesson." "I suppose so," I said. "I have shown you what a fool a tender-hearted soft-headed fellow may make of himself by yielding to his impulses. But I have a defence to offer, my dear sir, the best of excuses, the only real excuse existing in this world. I couldn't help it."
About two years ago, an exasperating, soft-headed boy brought a colossal fortune into the Ring. I never pitied him much; I only longed to see him placed in the hands of a good schoolmaster who knew how to use a birch.
All subscribed to it excepting Pewee and Ben Berry and Riley. They declared they never would sign it. They didn't want to be kept in at recess and after school like convicts. They didn't deserve it. "Jack is a soft-headed fool," Riley said, "to draw up such a thing as that. I'm not afraid of the master. I'm not going to knuckle down to him, either."
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