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"It seems to me," said he to his chiefs in a hastily summoned council of war, "that we are all at sixes and sevens. I don't understand what manoeuvres these naval men are up to and I doubt if they know themselves. I would advise, therefore, that we should attack at once.
The only difference is that, as sugar happens to be sweet and vinegar sour, an organisation which perceives the reverse is at sixes and sevens with the universe, or a bit of the universe; and, exactly to the extent to which this six-and-sevenness prevails, is likely to be mulcted of some of the universe's good things.
The girls, like the rest of the congregation, had always been humble and respectful followers of the gallery; singing at sixes and sevens if without gallery leaders; never interfering with the ordinances of these practised artists having no will, union, power, or proclivity except it was given them from the established choir enthroned above them.
"The girl's on a strike." There was no mother at the Torrance house, and sometimes the housekeeping there was "at sixes and sevens." "I was going to get some crackers and sardines," confessed Whistler. "I had no idea we could get this boat when I left the house. But I can run up and get Alice to put us up a snack." Frenchy was carrying Ikey's basket very carefully indeed, lovingly.
Yes, so it really appeared; for, everything seemed `at sixes and sevens, the landscape having its middle distances and foreground irretrievably mixed up and its perspective gone mad, the country through which they passed resembling in this respect the land of topsy-turvey- dom!
So Decker: "Talke of none but lords and such ladies with whom you have plaid at Primero." Gul's Horne-booke, 1609. 37. Among the Marquis of Worcester's celebrated "Century of Inventions," 12mo, 1663, is one "so contrived without suspicion, that playing at Primero at cards, one may, without clogging his memory, keep reckoning of all sixes, sevens, and aces, which he hath discarded."
He put his pen down carefully in the crease of the book, and rose to his feet. "Mrs. Wayne," he said, "I must tell you something." "You're going to say, after all, that my sevens are like fours." "I'm going to say something worse more inexcusable. I'm going to tell you how much I want you to honor me by becoming my wife." She pronounced only one syllable.
Blue Bonnet could scarcely wait for the dessert to be cleared away before she told the girls to pull the ribbons. When the boxes came in view there was a scream of delight. Nimble-fingered Kitty was the first to open hers, and the rest were not long following suit, revealing to the enraptured gaze quaint and oddly designed gold rings, the monogram of the We Are Sevens forming a seal.
The two rival pretenders to the duchies were to halve the territory, drawing lots for the first choice, all foreign troops were to be withdrawn, and a pledge was to be given that no fortress should be placed in the hands of any power. But Spain at the last moment had refused to sanction the treaty, and everything was remitted to what might be exactly described as a state of sixes and sevens.
Everything was "at sixes and sevens," as the saying is, in the room Mr. Mudge and Paul had just entered. In the midst of the scene was a large stout woman, in a faded calico dress, and sleeves rolled up, working as if her life or the world's destiny depended upon it. It was evident from the first words of Mr. Mudge that this lady was his helpmeet.
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