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...ou first.’ Helen snatched the paper from Ram Das. It was in Gavin’s writing. ‘Dear James, These chaps have taken me hostage in exchange for their l... ...re even now crossing the Sutleg.’ ‘Good, Gavin’, said one of the Highland officers, ‘these rebel chaps know how fiercely they have been dealt with ...

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...ny. The master sergeant wanted them here before the calm would end. If the quiet days never ended: good! If they ended, he’d prefer to have those two chaps among the troops here. The two soldiers the master sergeant was waiting for were Sergeant Fred Leblanc and specialist Tomas Strackman. Leblanc had been on vacation while Strackman would return from an extended hospita...

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...ny. The master sergeant wanted them here before the calm would end. If the quiet days never ended: good! If they ended, he’d prefer to have those two chaps among the troops here. ...

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...umber to denote continuance: Vol. I (plural, Vols.), No. I (Nos.), chap. 2 (chaps.), Art. 111 (Arts.), sec. 4 (sea.), p. 5 (pp.), col. 6 (cols.), vs...

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...d done, fortune did so fitly and rightly carrie the same towards the dogs chaps that there it perfectly finished what his art could never attaine un...

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...our Uncle Stalky! We’re goin’ along the cliffs after butterflies. Very few chaps come there. We’re goin’ to leg it, too. You’d better leave your book ... ...f you’d behaved like a Christian, T urkey.” “My Aunt!” said Abanazar, “you chaps are communists. Vote of thanks to Beetle, though.” Rudyard Kipling “... ...h him.” “‘Safest place for Manders minor just now,” said Beetle. “Then you chaps had better clear out,” said Stalky politely to the visitors. “’Tisn’... ... only played the war-drum. We’ve got turned out for that already.” “Do you chaps mean to say you didn’t make Rabbits-Eggs drunk and bribe him to rock ... ... said the Irishman, hanging on the banister, “he begins by bullying little chaps; then he bullies the big chaps; then he bullies some one who isn’t co... ...lks about Prout in form-room—makes allu- sions, an’ all that—only half the chaps are such asses they Rudyard Kipling can’t see what he’s drivin’ at. ... ...n’t fair—remindin’ one of bein’ a water-funk. My first term, too. Heaps of chaps are—when they can’t swim.” “Yes, you ass; but he saw he’ d fetched yo... ... ten-bedder. Eligible central situ- ation, I call it. She’ll stink out his chaps, and Hartopp’s and Macrea’s, when she really begins to fume. I swear ... ... yourselves? Foster, Carton, Finch, Longbridge, Marlin, Brett! I heard you chaps catchin’ it from King—he made hay of you—an’ all you could do was to ...

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... they leave. 20 Then keep your heart for men like me And safe from trustless chaps. My love is true and all for you. ‘Perhaps, young man, perhaps.’ Oh... ... there, And there with the rest are the lads that will never be old. There’s chaps from the town and the field and the till and the cart, 5 And many to... ...been lost, my lads. ‘Then I might have built perhaps Gallows trees for other chaps, 10 Never dangled on my own, Had I but left ill alone. ‘Now, you se...

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... the Turkish busi- ness. He was a great man on ‘Change, too; and our young chaps used to hear from the stockbrokers’ clerks (we com- monly dined toget... ...Swinney!” “Sir to you,” says Swinney, as cool as possible, and some of the chaps began to titter. “Mr. Swinney!” roared Brough, in a voice still bigge... ...r boots, or Bluchers, to come through (the fashionables wore boots, but we chaps in the City, on 80£. a year, contented ourselves with Bluchers); and ... ...with you: only if you play the same joke upon other parties—on some of the chaps in our office, for example—I recommend you to have a care, or they wi... ...be told, I was not sorry to let Hoskins have the start of me, and tell the chaps what had taken place,—for we all have our little vanities, and I like... .... When I came in, I saw my business had been done, by the way in which the chaps looked at me; especially Abednego, who offered me a pinch out of his ... ... at the west end on Thursday, asked to dine, ma’am, with the tip-top nobs. Chaps don’t dine at the West End for nothing, do they, R.? If you play at b... ... when the linen was quite clear and bright with Somersetshire washing. The chaps at the West Diddlesex all admired it hugely, ex- cept that snarling S... ... and the respect that wag paid me, turned my head a little; and as all the chaps said I must have a black satin stock to set the stone off, was 35 Th...

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... this. What saves us is effi- ciency—the devotion to efficiency. But these chaps were not much account, really. They were no colonists; their administ... ...dies streamed with perspiration; they had faces like grotesque masks—these chaps; but they had bone, muscle, a wild vitality, an intense energy of mov... .... ‘Been living there?’ he asked. I said, ‘Yes.’ ‘Fine lot these government chaps —are they not?’ he went on, speaking English with great precision and... ...enty cannibals splashing around and pushing. We had enlisted some of these chaps on the way for a crew. Fine fellows—cannibals—in their place. They we... ...bt have been properly horrified, had it not occurred to me that he and his chaps must be very hungry: that they must have been growing increasingly hu... ...f one’s soul— than this kind of prolonged hunger. Sad, but true. And these chaps too had no earthly reason for any kind of scruple. Restraint! I would... ...n’t hit anything unless you take aim and fire from the shoulder; but these chaps fired from the hip with their eyes shut. The retreat, I main- tained—... ...d, they swerved, they dodged the flying terror of the sound. The three red chaps had fallen flat, face down on the shore, as though they had been shot...

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...thorough good seamen of course, and between those two old 5 Joseph Conrad chaps I felt like a small boy between two grandfathers. “The ship also was ... ...— and here I am lasting it out as well as any of these men, and keeping my chaps up to the mark. I was pleased. I would not have given up the experien... ... cried Mahon from below. “Y ou understand this? I don’t think one of those chaps ex- pected to get down in the usual way. When we did I heard them say...

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...ate ever made more than one voyage in the Sephora, you know. Those two old chaps ran the ship. Devil only knows what the skipper wasn’t afraid of (al... ...portunity to address me. “Seems a very nice man. His boat’s crew told our chaps a very extraordinary story, if what I am told by the steward is true.... ...nday), and the mate pursued: “There was some little dispute about it. Our chaps took offense. `As if we would harbor a thing like that,’ they said. `...

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...d boy. High-spirited husbands were the easiest to manage. These mean, soft chaps, that you would think butter wouldn’t melt in their mouths, were the ... ...er ears. “He isn’t frisky—is he? I would be afraid to lay hold of him. The chaps are always telling me I don’t know my own strength.” “He’s the most h...

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...,” he almost passionately sighed, “if I were only, pen in hand, one of you chaps!” “That would be a great chance for you of course. But why should you... ...t would be a great chance for you of course. But why should you despise us chaps for not doing what you can’t do yourself?” “Can’t do?” He opened his ...

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... time. It all seemed so neat and clean and straightforward, and what rough chaps call a ‘cert.’ And we used to speculate how the other blessed lot, th... ...s jolly times we had in those days, I can tell you—little suspecting, poor chaps! what was a-coming. “We weren’t going to throw away our chances by an... ...Always with three spears in him. There was the legs of three or four black chaps kicking about me in the water. I couldn’t see much, but I saw the gam... ...he weight on my shoulders and feet. “But what made me anxious was what the chaps in the canoes might think when they came back. If they’d seen me in t... ...umatic pump that was used for the compressed air affair, and then a lot of chaps and girls came in and danced about me something disgraceful. It’s ext... ...it. Come round just where it was before. There was sorrowing for the other chaps, beastly drunkards cer- tainly, but not deserving such a fate, and yo... ...ooming treasure, any’ow for a bit. Besides, I didn’t know what was done to chaps who tried to collar a treasure trove. I started off for London there ...

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...lley. Fences of barbed wire ten feet high, and inside that they do things. Chaps about the camp—now and then we get a peep. It isn’t only us neither. ... ...otographers and journalists who been waiting his re- turn. “Look here, you chaps,” he said, as his assistant did so, “I’m tired to death, and saddle s... .... “Y ou’ d keep the hen and have it spatch-cocked,” said Grubb. “The motor chaps would pay for it.” When they really came to take the place they remem... ...9 H G Wells with gliders—which is mostly going down. Three-quarters of the chaps in the fleet haven’t. Here’s a folding-chair and table behind the doo... ...d tidy! All smashed about, and the iron flying about in fragments, and the chaps one knew—Gott!—flying about too! Scalding water squirting, fire, and ... ...inary hawks. “Beaten,” he whispered. “Beaten and done for… Chinese! Yellow chaps chasing ‘em!” At last he came to rest in a clump of bushes near a loc... ... coming over that bridge …. “Any’ow—got me out of the way of them Japanesy chaps. Wouldn’t ‘ave taken ‘em long to cut MY froat. No. Still—” He resolve... ...adn’t the sense to under- stand it. Always. All sorts of ‘oles and corners chaps ‘ave died in. And people ‘adn’t the sense to understand, ‘adn’t the s...

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...m with lofty toleration, notwithstanding his opinion that at a pinch those chaps would be found emphatically “not there.” As soon as his mind came bac... ...ago. He did a rare lot of fight- ing—didn’t he? We heard about it from the chaps of the sloop Diana that was refitting in Calcutta when I was there in... ... the Warwick Castle. They took some king’s town up a river hereabouts. The chaps were full of it.” “Sir Thomas did good work,” answered Lingard, “but ... ...ngard, but when put to it, I could fight as well as any of them flat-nosed chaps we have to make shift with, instead of a proper crew of decent Christ... ... letter will tell you that. May I ask, Captain, for a little water for the chaps in my boat? And I myself would thank you for a drink. We haven’t had ... ...here’s a rain squall coming.” “I am in charge and will get wet along of my chaps. Give us a good long line, Captain.” “It’s done already,” said Lingar... ...u.” Jorgenson nodded then and would say: “Remem- ber that unless you young chaps are like we men who ranged about here years ago, what I could tell yo... ...he look of her spars made me think of old times. And then the faces of the chaps on board. I seemed to know them all. It was like home coming to me wh... ...as he had about forty followers of his own and I had only nine of Hassim’s chaps to defend the Emma with, he could very well go for me and get the lot...

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...nd—and—billiard-rooms. Civilization, my boy, and virtue—and all. And then, chaps will read that two good fellows, Kayerts and Carlier, were the first ... ...y at the cross, and generally made themselves at home. “I don’t like those chaps—and, I say, Kayerts, they must be from the coast; they’ve got firearm... ...rearms,” ob- served the sagacious Carlier. Kayerts also did not like those chaps. They both, for the first time, became aware that they lived in condi... ...ngs in what he said. Alvan Hervey put it down to affectation. Those artist chaps, upon the whole, were so affected. Still, all this was highly proper—...

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...destroy, an’ ruin, Wi’ carnal stanes the square bestrewin’, Till your loud chaps frae Kyle to Fruin, Frae Hell to Heeven, Tell the guid wark that bait...

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...t the prospect of violence than himself, and his spirits rose again. These chaps ought to have a thorough lesson. “Of course you knew the door was ope... ...leave much edge to live on, does it?—real workmen laugh at us and educated chaps like bank clerks and solicitors’ clerks look down on us. You look re-... ...ere to buy tape and cotton. It’s all very well to bring up Burns and those chaps, but I’m not that make. Yet I’m not such muck that I might not have b... ...ch muck that I might not have been better—with teaching. I wonder what the chaps who sneer and laugh at such as me would be if they’ d been fooled abo...

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..., panting as if from Marathon, appeared with an evening paper! “I say, you chaps, Middlesex all out for a hun- dred and five!” Under Flack’s pressure ... ...till held out for City Merchandize, which had taken my fancy. “Some of the chaps’ people won’t like it,” said Naylor, “certain not to. And it sounds R... ...e writing,” said Shoesmith. “What you’ve got to do is just to list all the chaps and put a note to their play:—’Naylor minor must pass more. Foot- bal... ...just as many names as you can in each number. It keeps the interest alive. Chaps will turn it over looking for their own little bit. Then it all light... ...” “Frivolous but not vulgar,” said Esmeer. 75 H G Wells “Pinky Dinkys are chaps who’ve had their buds nipped,” said Hatherleigh. “They’re Plebs and t... .... We had expected to be gripped. “I’ll not be knowing what to say to these Chaps,” he re- peated with a north-country quality in his speech. We made r... ...of it all, of his going to work in a factory when he was twelve—” when you Chaps were all with your mammies “—and how he had educated himself of night... ..., and there were no judges nor great solicitors among my relations. “Young chaps think they get on by themselves,” said my uncle. It isn’t so. Not unl... ... he asked her. “Every one knows we’re a mixed lot,” said Isabel. “Poor old chaps like me!” interjected the general. 191 H G Wells “But that’s not a p...