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The Third Corps of the British suffered heavy loss of life without any opportunity to retaliate, for it was too thoroughly and completely dominated by the guns of Vregny. The lull of Wednesday, September 16, 1914, was a foretaste of the deadlock which was gradually forming.
With a queer sort of cleverness, Eva had given herself out, to the second lot of people, as an actress to whom the necklace a present was worth little compared with the value in cash; and they had believed her story. But naturally it was soon proved to be false; and at first matters were at a deadlock.
Awful!" she said, in a low, shuddering tone. The dreadful scenes and the danger were beginning to overpower her. A little further on they reached an avenue to the northwest through which Dennis hoped to escape. But they could make but little headway through the dense masses of drays, carriages, and human beings, and at last everything came to a deadlock.
The deadlock in the republican convention between him and Mr. Blaine was broken by the nomination of James A. Garfield, of Ohio. Chester A. Arthur, of New York, was the vice-presidential candidate. The Democrats nominated the hero of Gettysburg, the brave and renowned General W. S. Hancock, of Pennsylvania, and William H. English, of Indiana.
Of two people at a deadlock, he always reminded himself, there is not one only wholly at fault. Both must be at fault. Having a detached and logical soul, he never let himself forget this truth. Take Lottie! He had loved her. He had never loved any other woman. If he had had his other affairs it was out of spite or defiance or curiosity. They meant nothing. He and Lottie had loved one another.
He had been elected by one of those sudden movements, as well known in American caucuses as in papal conclaves, when, after a deadlock, all the old candidates are thrown over, and the choice suddenly falls on a new man.
The dramatic manner in which, after a series of humorous complications, the Mystery was run to earth and unmasked by "Deadlock Jones, the King of Detectives," was portrayed by David with "startling realism" and elicited loud applause. "That is the funniest farce you boys have ever given," laughed Mrs.
What's the use of this war of one generation against another? Old people and young people reach a deadlock that's as bad as marriage without the possibility of divorce. Isn't all forced fidelity wrong?" "What did you do, tell me, and what are you going to do?" "Oh well, I felt something like frost in the air, and I couldn't define it. Really, it was work waiting to be done.
He stated that it is amazing how ordinarily sensible people, in the heat of a dicker over a piece of property, can get at a practical deadlock over the disposal of a cord of wood or whether a cupboard, worth possibly five dollars, is to be left with the house or removed. So keep your temper, especially when it is a question of property you really want.
Probably he means to her what you mean to me. It's a deadlock." "No," cried Fleur, "no, Father!" Soames leaned back, the image of pale patience, as if resolved on the betrayal of no emotion. "Listen!" he said. "You're putting the feelings of two months two months against the feelings of thirty-five years! What chance do you think you have?
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