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"I've known that a long time." "You didn't know any more'n us fellers knowed all along," said Curly. "There never was a squarer, nor a whiter, nor a gamer man stood on leather than him. He come out here to stay, and he's the sort that we all wouldn't let go of. Some of 'em goes back home. He didn't. What there was here he could have.
His answer showed no consciousness of the humbling process: "You think a lot of David, don't you?" Susan felt her color rising. This time she not only sat squarer in her saddle, but raised her shoulders and chin a trifle. "Yes. I am engaged to be married to him." "When will you be married?" said the uncrushable man.
In most cases the owners of the places object, and he has to convince them that it is to their advantage to have the paper in their windows." "I didn't think there was so much to it, but I think I should like that work. I'll be a squarer," decided Teddy. "The banner men put up what are called 'banners, cloth signs. These are tacked up in high places and the banner men have to be good climbers.
According to the latest plan of the site, there were sixteen blocks, nearly identical in shape and averaging 145 x 180 yds. If these are survivals of other such roads, Aosta may have contained thirty-two oblong 'insulae', each nearly 220 x 540 ft., or even sixty-four smaller and squarer 'insulae', measuring half that size.
In what exactly this alteration consisted I could not at first have said; but gradually it began to impress itself on me that his eye was brighter, his jaw squarer, his carriage a trifle more upright than it had been. But it was his eye that struck me most forcibly.
Four years at the Naval Academy, a two years' sea cruise, and a year of actual service had made many changes in Denman. He was now twenty-five, an ensign, but, because of his position as executive, bearing the complimentary title of lieutenant. He was a little taller and much straighter and squarer of shoulder than when he had gone to the academy.
If Wally Snaith beats me to it I'm not goin' to wear black," retorted Yankie. "Sho! The kid's got good stuff in him. An' nobody could ask for a squarer pal than Billie Prince. You know that yore own self." "You heard what I said, Dad. The Flyin' V Y horses don't take the back trail to-day," insisted the foreman stubbornly. The wrinkled eyes of Wrayburn narrowed a little.
She had devoted herself to him, to his house, to all that would nourish his love; and now she and Billy were sinking down into this senseless vortex of misery and heartbreak of the man-made world. No, God was not responsible. She could have made a better world herself a finer, squarer world. This being so, then there was no God. God could not make a botch.
It was a taller, squarer form than that of his betrothed, and although the season was only autumn she was wrapped in furs, or in thick and heavy clothing of some kind. He soon advanced abreast of her, and could get glimpses of her profile against the roadstead lights. It was dignified, arresting, that of a very Juno. Nothing more classical had he ever seen.
Physically very strong, he had caught on the academy ball team and played guard in football. Mentally he was a trifle slow; but in the whole school there was no squarer, more solid fellow. So far as finances went, he was dependent on his own resources; whatever education he got he must earn himself. Lane afforded in many respects a decided contrast to Spurling.
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