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He ran cargo after cargo to Crow Harbor and dropped from three to seven hundred dollars on each load, until even Stubby lost patience with him. "What's the sense in bucking him till you go broke? I'm in too deep to stand any loss myself. Quit. Tie up your boats, Jack. Let him have the salmon. Let those blockheads of fishermen see what he'll do to 'em once you stop."
"She knows that if I can't have her I'm fast enough to keep everyone else away." "I see. A process of elimination with you as the eliminator. Rather an odd courtship, Steve?" The cowpuncher grew deadly serious. "You see, I love her. There ain't no way of bucking out of that. So do nine out of ten of all the boys that've seen her. Which one will she pick?
The vessel was labouring, and, although there was nothing that could be called a storm, she was bucking into head-swells that rattled her from stem to stern, and the gusts of wind whipped the tips of the waves across her fore-deck spitefully and without warning.
And Bandy, for all his vows, had gone straight for bucking the tiger. And Frank, who had gotten drunk last pay-day, had been mindful of wife and little girl far away and had done his duty. As the spirit of the gangs changed with the coming of the gold, so did that of the day.
Can't get him away from the ram. Mary's little lamb is a `bucking bronco' to it." "Oh, I have been wondering about that," said Cora. "I thought I was to wear the ram's fleece as a sort of real baby-lamb coat next winter." "Nothing of the sort, girl. Ed's ramifications are the talk of the town. He is to give an exhibition at college when we get back.
The sprints were run on the straightaway which was more than the necessary quarter of a mile but occasionally there was a longer race and then the field had to take that dangerous circuit, sloppy and slippery with dust. The land enclosed was used for the bucking contest, for the two crowning events of the Glosterville fiesta, the race and the horse-breaking, had been saved for this last day.
How they ever stood the smashing, banging tactics, the fierce tackling, the eager runs, the line bucking, the giving and taking, only one who has played football, and who knows the fierce joy of the game, can understand. Nervous women cried out in alarm as they saw the struggling mass and heap of boyish humanity.
For a quarter of an hour the Bishop interviewed the junior members of his team, and impressed on each of them the absolute necessity of bucking up with his fielding. And each of them protested that the matter should receive his best consideration. 'Well, they're keen enough anyway, said Marriott, as the door closed behind Carstairs, the last of the new recruits, 'and that's the great thing.
Oh, say, hope you haven't held it against me, my bucking you as mayor, going on the stump for Prout. You see, I'm an organization Republican, and I kind of felt " "There's no reason why you shouldn't fight me. I have no doubt you're good for the Organization. I remember in college you were an unusually liberal, sensitive chap.
A coyote whisked into the open and bounced toward them with bucking leaps, strangling and gagging as he came, then whirled and snapped at himself, the froth dripping and foaming from his jaws and the moonlight reflecting from his set, staring eyes.
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