I am willing, for a money consideration, to test this physical strength, this nervous force, and muscular power with which I've be...en gifted, to show that they will bear a certain strain. If I break down, if my brain gives way under want of sleep, my heart ceases to respond to the calls made on my circulatory system, or the surcharged veins of my extremities burst--if, in short, I fall helpless, or it may be, dead on the track, then I lose my money.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Cassoulet, that best of bean feasts, is everyday fare for a peasant but ambrosia for a gastronome, though its ideal consumer is a ...300-pound blocking back who has been splitting firewood nonstop for the last twelve hours on a subzero day in Manitoba.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I am succeeding very well so far with my legging, but it is a very mean business for a man that has been well brought up to engage... in. It is the only way to get a bill from Cincinnati through, so it must be done.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately succ...essful.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife. Now, the first thing to do is arrange f...or a settlement. You take the children, your husband takes the house, Junior burns down the house, you take the insurance and I take you!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O, this life Is nobler than attending for a check;... Richer than doing nothing for a bauble; Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise; I had it of Leah when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness ...of monkeys.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »