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Updated: June 12, 2025
"The fleet is complete," he wrote the First Lord that day, "and the first easterly wind, I shall pass the Straits." Fortune apparently had made up her mind now to balk him no more.
Then the witch's spell of that d d green-table! Luck against one-wait! double the capital ere you send the half. Luck with one how balk the tide? how fritter the capital just at the turn of doubling?
In accord with this innate loyalty of mine I take no credit for it, I was born that way I did not balk at the assignments given me though they ranged from the hazardous to the absurd. One of the more pleasant of these excursions thought up by Mr Le ffaçasé was to fly over the grass and to Catalina, embark on a chartered boat there and survey the parts of the coast now overrun.
If those ether begaas annoy you, jaast tell me, and I'll parade 'em at twelve paces, dem me." "I must try and find some less insane vent for your friendly feelings; and what can I do for you?" "Yah couldn't go on pretending to be spooney on me, could yah?" "Oh, no, no. What for?" "I laike it; makes the other begaas misable." "What worthy sentiments! it is a sin to balk them.
Particularly would the people's patience balk at the extensive military training requisite to put the country in an adequate position of defense against a sudden and well-prepared offensive.
It was an unusual sort of a conversation to be engaged in with a woman I had known but twenty minutes. I think she felt it, too. There was some restraint in her manner, but I realized that her interest in Jerry was driving her, if against her better judgment, with a definite design that would not balk at trifles. "You seem to know a great deal about Jerry," I said at last. "Who has told you?"
We can discuss the matter over the meal. All I can say now is that if the Golden Eagle is still in shape for her old-time stunts there is work ahead of her that will prove harder than anything she has yet tackled. However, I know you are not the chaps to balk at a little danger particularly when exciting adventures are in the wind. So long, then, till to-morrow: "LATHROP EASLEY"
Even where they had been apparently successful and succeeded in capturing the political control of states, they found the money power still able by a thousand indirect influences to balk their efforts and turn their seeming victories into apples of Sodom, which became ashes in the hands of those who would pluck them.
"It is most refreshing to hear a high churchman make such a confession. And what else do you propose?" "Why ah hum it has always seemed to me that the thirty-nine articles might well be somewhat condensed." "Bravo indeed, though I fear the Bishop would balk at that," said his host. The maid, appearing in the dining-room again, whispered to Mrs. Kent.
And then, when Britain did declare war, they thought they could speedily destroy her "contemptible little army." Ah, weel they did come near to destroying it! But not until it had helped to balk them of their desire not until it had played its great and decisive part in ruining the plans the Hun had been making and perfecting for forty-four long years.
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