He was the veriest duffer in his attempts to make the Reeves-Pendleton combination put up their shutters by attacking their square games, and he lost over $3000 of his corner-lot money at their faro tables.
That was a pretty square talk to come from the throat of a man whose bank had been raided.
It all looked so smooth and easy, and the heavy-artilleried chaps that I ran into seemed so square and peaceable that I drank a good deal more sagebrush whisky than I had any right to drink or than I had ever drank before.
It struck me that this was pretty square talk, and I told Pendleton so, and advised him to cut out any idea of getting all the money back from Gately through the medium of a gun-play.
I tried to square it up with her the next morning, and at the breakfast table I read her the names of the horses that were going to run in the race in which I had the good thing the shoe clerk had given me.
I know that I'd never be able to square myself for a thing that happened down at St. Asaph during that fall meeting in 1894, so what's the use of stacking up against the bunch and wasting wind?
He's sulked on me two or three times at critical junctures in games of draw, and given me the wrong tips, just to get square with me for something or other, but that was when he was young and sassy and disposed to work his edge on me.
I met a dozen or so of pretty square chaps in Washington, business men that liked to see 'em run and that used to ask me occasionally what I thought.
This market place at Arras was a sight worth a long journey to witness, if but to see the display of animals, chickens, and flowers on a bright sunny morning in the square beneath the tower of the Town Hall.
In the Square was the ancient Church of St. Gery, a remarkable example of Gothic workmanship dating from the thirteenth century, and much studied and valued by architects.
There is a great square tower on the south side, terminating in an apse.
The Cathedral is ruined; likewise the notable and remarkable old Town Hall, but the quaint old fountain in the Squarehas by some good fortune escaped damage.
No such assurance is given of Laon, with its wonderful square ended choir, the only one in France, and the remarkable effigies of oxen, carved in stone, on the tops of the twin towers.
Children ran after the poor frightened dusty things, tugging at their wool, some trying to climb upon their backs, and the whole square was in an uproar.
I saw them again at about one in the morning; they were still standing in the Square beneath the lamp which shone upon their anxious faces.
The chateau was in the form of a rectangle flanked at each corner by a round tower, and with great square towers on the north and east.
The cathedral was remarkable for the square apse, and there was a tall lanthorn tower in the center of the church, which had two windows separated by buttresses.
In shape it was a rectangle, flanked at each corner by a round tower, and with square towers on the north and west.
The two towers were square and topped by balustrades of little or no character.
The road to the town on the hill was by way of the Rue de l'lsle, which brought us to the small square on which was the flamboyant Gothic Hotel de Ville.
It is a great square house; flanked with two turrets, with fine old stone windows, and a stone porch in the middle.
Dick, taking out a small square envelope, rose-tinted and crested.
Rhoda took the square of neat cardboard with the precious red circle that meant so much, and ran into the playground with it, hugging it to her heart, and crying and laughing over it like a child.
They cantered on into the town, and going more slowly through the great public square and the more crowded streets, came at last to a modest house, standing on a corner, and nearly hidden by vines and shrubbery.
All the flooding showers which had been falling upon hundreds of square miles of precipitous mountin sides were now gorging through the crooked, narrow throat of the Little Rockcastle.
He went to a cupboard and reaching up to a high shelf took down a square green bottle, the contents of which he poured into a green-gold dish, beautifully carved.
He put the heart in the Woodman's breast and then replaced the square of tin, soldering it neatly together where it had been cut.
Illustration] So Oz brought a pair of tinners' shears and cut a small, square hole in the left side of the Tin Woodman's breast.
And when the tempest was grumbling itself off in the distance, the shutters were all thrown back and the doors on the square wooden balcony opened.
There it is, covering square leagues of common land, to be harvested by whosoever list.
Illustration: garden view] We have placed square Compton pots with Italian wreaths, filled with palms and flowering plants, one on each side of the altar step.
The property had long ago belonged to one Lady Tidd, who so adored it that she had herself buried on a hill overlooking it, her coffin upright in its tall square tomb.
But the square court, once the farmyard, divided by two different levels, was completely flagged.
They were all tired and ready for bed, and were only up because Willett was to leave and should "square things" before leaving the post.
From cellar floor to chimney-pot, no square inch of honest or trustworthy workmanship.
Uncle Peter refused, because he said that he felt a smooth walk around the Square would call out what he called "a dimity parade" every afternoon.
I had gone but few steps on the pavement of the Square of Saint-Mark when a peasant, whom I had noticed seated on a bench by the gate of the palace, came up to me and held out a crumpled bit of paper.
She lived in a beautiful palace close to the square of Saint-Mark.
The windows had little square panes of glass, most of which were broken; they looked into the garden, where I noticed a rose tree in flower, some fruit trees, and a quantity of broccoli.
Now I should sleep in my iron bedstead, after having slept for thirty-seven nights on a square of oilcloth.
It was not a lengthy operation, for a Corsican hut only consists of a single square room.
In the middle of the floor, a space about fifteen feet square was covered with thick pine planking, strongly nailed to the beams.
It may have been forty feet square on the ground, and was only a story and a half high, but a projecting roof, and a front dormer-window, relieved it from the appearance of disproportion.
As for the carpets, I have not bought any yet, for I cannot find any square ones.
I also saw many other beautiful things at Brussels, and especially a great fish bone there, as vast as if it had been built up of square stones; it was a fathom long, very thick, weighs up to 1 cwt.
The boys is gettin' kind o' riled, fur they allow the game ain't on the square wuth a cent.
With a smile he said To him: "Assemble in thesquare the folk And army.
Crossing the square of Singapore he passed by the palace of the King and saw the Queen.
So, only from the sea can you discern the square mass of the convent built conformably to the minute rules laid down as to the shape, height, doors, and windows of monastic buildings.
I am delighted to know that you have so much strength of character," he answered, as he watched her go to take her place in a square dance.
I used to go in when hungry to buy the buns, which were on sale in one of these square pews fitted up as a small shop, boards being laid on the top rail, and the high seats forming shelves for the display of eatables.
It must have been an ancient building as it had a high pulpit, a sounding board still higher and square pews.
He was a silent, self-absorbed man with a stern manner, a square set jaw, wide mouth and ponderous ears.
Added to my mile-square world, I had now also the germs of memory.
Mr. Dyce considers that Lob is descriptive of the contrast between Puck's square figure and the airy shapes of the other fairies.
The chancel roof is of the same pitch, but of a pyramidal form; it is painted in the same manner as the nave, and is supported by four square fluted columns.
She does not enjoy trudging back and forth a million times a year over the same square yards of floor-space; but that, too, is immaterial to her.
The husband will have the comfortable assurance that he is obeying that great principle of efficiency that calls for a "square deal" in the human group with which he has most to do.
Here, leading me to a window, he showed me a very different view from the sunlit landscape and garden I had lately looked upon,- -a dismal square of rank grass in which stood a number of black crosses.
I caught sight of a pair of slim square shoulders, a good deal of pretty brown hair, and finally a pair of neat black shoes, as their owner deftly mounted to the top of the swaying vehicle.
How nice and shady this big square must be in summer.
I saw him shuffling across the Square half an hour ago.
Besides, our love is big enough to squareany circle, social or otherwise.
I have an appointment with a gentleman at Russell Square Tube Station at twelve-thirty.
Things look different in Russell Square from what they do at the Trocadero.
She realized with a guilty pang that while strawberries and cream were being served at her table in January, Hanneh Hayyeh had doubtless gone without a square meal in months.
Ever since she first began to wash the fine silks and linens for Mrs. Preston, years ago, it had been Hanneh Hayyeh's ambition to have a white-painted kitchen exactly like that in the old Stuyvesant Square mansion.
