Now he sat day after day in his office in the Raleigh Block, trying to discover where his money had gone and how he could get some of it back.
I hated to enter the still house when I went home from the dances, and it was long before I could get to sleep.
Jake was sure he could get through on horseback, and bring home our things in saddle-bags; but grandfather told him the roads would be obliterated, and a newcomer in the country would be lost ten times over.
During that time he was annoyed by repeated pilferings, for which he could get no redress.
They must all perish before they could get to the end of it.
He replied that it was not cooked, and he should starve before it was ready; he implored, therefore, to be taken where he could get something to appease his hunger immediately.
Chapter 28 As everything looked so fair-weather-like, Jim and Jeanie made it up to be married as soon after she came up as he could get a house ready.
And if we could get a few colts by him out of thoroughbred mares we might win half the races every year on our side and no one a bit the wiser.
If I could get next to him----" and he mounted his bicycle with a laugh.
If her father was there, and I could get next to him, my fortune would be made.
And we'd make calculations how many a man could unload, if he could get next.
He could attend to that, and, after he had set it well going, he could get out.
Then, when we found it, we had to ram the old ship and blow it apart before we could get inside.
The life suits us, certainly; but if we could getaway to a place where we are unknown, we should be lighter hearted, and have a better chance.
He duly started, early in the morning, for it was only by a series of crooked railways that he could getto the town.
The house was in darkness when he entered, and in his stumbling state it was some time before he could get a light.
Should he find that place in this city if he could get there?
I was at great pains to give my philosophical, political, and social matter the best literary and critical backing we could get in London.
Indeed so far as I could get at her, she regarded sexual passion as being hardly more legitimate in a civilised person than--let us say--homicidal mania.
It looked to me that, if Price would remain in Iuka until we could get there, his annihilation was inevitable.
He spoke of his acquaintance with the public men of the State, and said he could get them to recommend me for a position and that he would do all he could for me.
My ankle was so much swollen from the fall of my horse the Friday night preceding, and the bruise was so painful, that I could getno rest.
I was not expected till to-morrow; but I had my keys, and, if Herbert were gone to bed, could get to bed myself without disturbing him.
And I was so miserable poor, that I sold all the clothes I had, except what hung on my back, afore I could get Jaggers.
But, they tore up their handkerchiefs to make fresh bandages, and carefully replaced it in the sling, until we could get to the town and obtain some cooling lotion to put upon it.
He told me I could go nowhere but that he could get me; and that, in the event of my running away, he should spare no pains in his efforts to catch me.
I told him I was a calker, and should like to go where I could get work.
Master Hugh, finding hecould get no redress, refused to let me go back again to Mr. Gardner.
In the division of the joint-product, capital wanted all it could get, and labor wanted all it could get.
I wish we could get some of it for the propaganda," Ernest said wistfully.
Till I could get you,' she answered slyly, with a smile which was brighter to me than the brightest wit could be.
Mr. Faggus had won the goodwill of Lizzie by his hatred of the Doones, and vows that if he could get a dozen men of any courage to join him, he would pull their stronghold about their ears without any more ado.
Robin took me by the hand, and gazed at me disdainfully, and then smote me painfully in the face, ere I could get my fence up.
He was too quick and too strong for me, however, for before I could get my balance he had struck at me and cut my left wrist rather severely.
Before I could get up to him, the patient rushed at them, and pulling one of them off the cart, began to knock his head against the ground.
I wish I could get at what is the object of the latter.
He clearly had studied beforehand all he could geton the subject of the neighbourhood, for he evidently at the end knew very much more than I did.
I told him that if he could get me the address it would be worth another half sovereign to him.
The thing to do was to go around to the candy store and see if we could get Nita to give a note to Ruth to give to Haydee.
I worked days, and half-days, at anything I could get.
I still laboured under the misconception that one was to drink all he could get--especially when it didn't cost anything.
Oh, yes; Louis and I unblushingly ate candy--all we could get.
Yes, I expected to have seen him when the servant first mentioned a friend from Ireland; because Sir James had told me that, as soon as he could get leave of absence, he would come to England.
I have a mind to serve a campaign or two, if I could get a commission in a regiment going to Spain; but I understand so many are eager to go at this moment, that it is very difficult to get a commission in such a regiment.
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