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Updated: August 14, 2024
Then the game began, and the men crowded round the walls of the room, silent, stern, and scowling, as they saw Gleeson run away from their champion like a racehorse from a bullock-team.
As he said afterwards, 'I could not lug a racehorse to the penitent form. After the service, he went straight to the man with whom he had made the bet, and said, 'That bet's off, at which the man was very glad, as he expected to lose the bet.
They will wait there till the flood comes and drowns them all, and then their corpses go down the river on their backs with their feet in the air. A mob will crawl along a road slowly enough to exasperate a snail, but let a lamb get away in a bit of rough country, and a racehorse can't head him back again.
Joseph Parker said that when Sunday came he felt like a racehorse, and could hardly wait for the time to come for him to go into the pulpit. He longed to speak. The well-equipped speaker is one who has a superior culture of voice and body.
Tell me," and she turned with a sudden pretty imperiousness to Lorimer, who started at her voice as a racehorse starts at its rider's touch, "what person in Bosekop spoke of us?" Lorimer was rather at a loss, inasmuch as no one in the small town had actually spoken of them, and Mr.
Young as he was, Nelson was appointed to command one of the boats which were sent out to explore a passage into the open water. It was the means of saving a boat belonging to the RACEHORSE from a singular but imminent danger. Some of the officers had fired at and wounded a walrus.
Everything that is well and gracefully performed appears easy to the looker-on. But that ease and grace, whether in the racehorse or in the man, has only been acquired by months and years of training and practice. It is seldom that the spectator is able to form a true and unbiassed opinion as to the varied contingencies which lead to victory or defeat in cricket.
From her and from his father we may assume that Adonijah inherited a tendency to ambition and self-conceit such as Absalom inherited from the union of David with Bathsheba. It is one of the laws of life that "like produces like," Evidence of this constantly appears in the lower animals, in the speed of the racehorse, in the scent of the hound, and so forth. This asserts itself in men also.
I cannot refuse, said Parmenides; and yet I feel rather like Ibycus, who, when in his old age, against his will, he fell in love, compared himself to an old racehorse, who was about to run in a chariot race, shaking with fear at the course he knew so well this was his simile of himself.
Three miles is an hour's walk for a lady an eighteen-penny cab-fare the distance from Hyde Park Corner to the Bank an express train could do it in three minutes, or a racehorse in five.
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