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The second method is the better one, because it promotes thinking, while the first only promotes pure imitation and the habit of reckoning on this easy solution of difficulties.
I don't know exactly, but from what he said I reckon we've brought down, on our Wednesday trips, about two-thirds of all he had.
I reckon I better trouble you to pay me in advance, unless'n you've got some kind friend that'll stand for you.
As a general rule, twenty minutes, reckoning from the moment when the boiling commences, may be allowed for every pound of meat.
He was conscious also that he could reckon on many allies in any effort which he might make for the prevention of further outrages.
After working out his reckoning, estimating the speed of their flight and counting the hours they had been in the air, the Major laid down his pencil.
They reckoned that a term of two years would be sufficient for them to execute their designs; they fix by decree their departure for the third year.
Yet, however I may convince myself of this, the tears are in my eyes, and yet I could not love him as you loved him, nor reckon upon him for a future comfort, as you and his father reckoned upon him.
He would do his best, and trust for strength to meet the dark day of reckoning that he knew would come sooner or later.
This must be reckoned among the genuine likenesses of the great man by one who lived with him and knew him intimately.
He may rely on my discretion; he may reckon on my good offices if I can be of use to him when he is found out.
I was from eight to ten miles at sea, and six miles east and south of the Shoals, as nearly as I could reckon.
Such, at least, was Bob's account of his failure to find the Reef again; though Mark thought it probable that he was a little out in his reckoning, and did not look in exactly the right place for it.
Before you could wink, Long John had fired two barrels of a pistol into the struggling Merry, and as the man rolled up his eyes at him in the last agony, "George," said he, "I reckon I settled you."
Above all, they knew that they had a new form of antagonism to reckon with, harder than any they had yet encountered.
It was finally agreed to reckon three-fifths of the slaves in estimating taxes and to make taxation the basis of representation.
For my own part I am quite convinced that your word is sufficient, but for the sake of the order of the game, and to facilitate the reckoning up, I must ask you to put the money on your card.
For a moment a mad impulse seized him to tear it in pieces, and eat every scrap, regardless of the reckoning with Brossard afterwards.
Then she said she reckoned we'd have to join the Bunker gang, if we could find any of it to join.
Although only a librarian, I have in my day been something of an athlete; much more than the person who had rushed into so sudden an intimacy reckoned upon.
Pray reckon it amongst the good you do in this world, that you come very often into our thoughts and conversation.
And, even at this early period in his career, it must be conceded that Tom Verity's smile was an asset to be reckoned with.
In spite of protests and regrets, the treaty was sanctioned by a larger majority than had been reckoned on.
Nor did Quintus ever cease to rejoice that he was reckoned worthy to look that day on the Conqueror of death.
They also reckoned the days they had passed on Lincoln Island, and from that time kept a regular account.
When once we had resolved on our approaching separation we began to reckon the minutes as hours, the hours as days.
He reckons them in though when he sends up the total of his work to his partner, and he gets paid for them too.
"I reckon our own train captain, that we elected in case we didn't throw in with the big train, had ought to say what he thinks about it all."
Each man is master of his own house and slaves; and the more slaves one owns, the greater and more influential is he reckoned.
She never reckoned the toys which got broken just to grieve her, all kinds of wrongs which had caused her much suffering because she was so sensitive.
And what an acquaintance she seemed to have among these elderly soldiers, who might at all times be reckoned on at Lady Hubert's parties!
"Did I not tell you, as plain as tongue could speak, that she is welcome to her bit and sup, and I'll pass the time away for her in the best way I can, though bad is the best, I reckon?"
If Foster could keep him in sight and sail by the same vessel, he would be able to have the reckoning when he liked after the ship left port.
We began to ascend this hill at the distance of about six miles from the place where we landed, and I reckoned the top of it to be near a mile above the river that runs through the valley below.
It is none of my business to keep his books for him; it is time enough for me to reckon for it when he charges me.'
In short, he should not hear the Jacobin lion roar, nor have the reward on which he reckoned for flinging me into his jaws.
She reckoned on the charms of habit to keep him by her; she was always ready to open her salons and display the luxury of her dinners and suppers for his friends, and to further his projects.
I do not mind slips of reporting, I do not mind a certain agreeable malice (indeed, I reckon to do a bit in that line myself).
Be this as it may, it is at this time in the life of Ruskin that we must begin to reckon with the decline of his aesthetic and the rise of his ethical impulse; his interest passes from art to conduct.
I was the fourth man, the unknown quantity in all your elaborate calculations ... and it seems to me I spoiled your reckoning ...
"I've had some strange requests in my time; but, damn me, if I reckoned that any man any longer wanted my blessing."
Jefferson did not know about or reckon with Inventors, as a means of governing, as a means of getting the will of the people.
It was here that she had reckoned upon crossing the deep and treacherous waters of the Severn, and to be thus foiled might mean the ruin of the enterprise.
She wanted a husband who could support her, and as some man who lived near was "mighty fond of her company and could give her a good home," she reckoned she would take his offer under consideration.
To the dead reckoning which Herrick still tried to keep, he would pay not the least attention nor afford the least assistance.
The peasants can only reckon by means of a calculating machine, and the clerks of the post themselves follow the same method.
The fugitive from justice reckons his chances considerably better in any other place than the territory of the Riders of the Plains.
"We are here," he said, as though the Germans would have to reckon with him; but he was emphatic in his request for me to leave at once if another train could be got away, which was very uncertain.
I reckon there's room in the Harmon house for both him and me, an' I reckon, if he's got anything particularly powerful to say in the way of religion, it won't do this little town any harm to hear it.
They are no more to be blamed than Englishmen who prefer to reserve membership of their clubs to Europeans, but the fact remains and has to be reckoned with.
He could not bear any discourse of death, and seemed to cast off all thoughts of it; he delighted to reckon upon longer life.
Well may she ask, for surely the evils it can and does do, daily and hourly, can never be summed up, till we can see them as they are recorded by him who writes no errors, and reckons without mistake.
He had good reason for reckoning on the impression his confidence in them would make upon them, and on the love that he knew the Macedonians bore towards him.
Here was a personage with whom he had not reckoned, but who was the door, as it were, through which his work must pass into the world.
Still, he reckoned that as he was running at the rate of three feet to every one they would march, he might hope to arrive at the house well before them.
A man, a soldier whom she had known, had told her that once, had told her that Arabs of sixty declare themselves to be twenty-five, not from vanity, but merely because they never reckon the years.
If angles be considered positive when reckoned towards the east, it is quite consistent with this usage that they should be considered negative when reckoned towards the west.
I reckon our safest way, tonight, will be to scout along this side, till we are well past the point; then to paddle out well across the lake, and come up again, and land to the left of Crown Point.
Likely enough, he only took one with him, at first, seeing we were but two, and that he reckoned on taking us by surprise; but, when he saw you joined us, he would send back for perhaps a couple more.
He reckoned greatly on the strength of his party in the Assembly, because he measured the power of their opinions by the talent with which they expressed them.
And her young men had fought and the future of the whole world had been in their hands, and since peace had come the future of the world must still be reckoned in the terms of their glorious youth.
There is something more to be reckoned with, which comes home to every man or woman who has ever watched for the birth of a child and planned and worked to make a place for it in the world.
He did not, in the ultimate reckoning, do anything in particular: but he was a figure; rather as Oscar Wilde was later a figure.
He started suddenly and rose from his seat, trying to count the strokes, but he had not heard the first ones and was astray in his reckoning.
I can depend upon the support of my own crowd, but there are always mutual jealousies to be reckoned with between the various unions.
It takes many of us altogether too long to learn that you cannot find satisfaction so long as you leave the soul out of your reckoning.
The benefits which are believed to be the result of it and of which the various nations dream differently are so uncertain that they cannot possibly be reckoned upon.
Whitman compares himself with an inanimate thing in the line: "I reckon I behave no prouder than the level I plant my house by."
"And the longer he keeps away the healthier it will be for him, I reckon," Allen said, adding with a laugh: "Gee, but it makes me happy every time I think of how sore that chap may be."
Well, the Widow said she reckoned that boys ought to be let out as well as in for half price, and so she laid down two bits, allowing that she wanted a few minutes' private conversation with her Bud.
In more definitely laying out the parts of this course the natural interests and capacities of children in their successive periods of growth must be taken into the reckoning.
Now it was painful to the baron, much as he wanted money, to turn the embarrassment of another to his own profit; and he said, "I consider it unfair to reckon upon what is certain loss to the seller."
He had grown used to the facts and could look at them easily enough, but he had not reckoned on others also learning them.
"I reckon there ought to be a smart sight of game round and about them cane brakes along that branch," said the old man slowly, as though thinking aloud.
Still, I reckon, our horses can keep us at a safe distance from his ugly claws and teeth; and it will be all right to have a try with the ropes before we use bullets, but we've got to be careful.
I hate like sin to give up the skin map to them two scoundrels; but, I reckon, our fathers and mothers would rather have our lives than the gold.
He knew that he had to reckon with germs in the wound itself, if the skin was broken, with germs on the hands and instruments of the operator, and with germs on the dust in the air.
"I honestly wonder," she said slowly, "if you could reckon up at random how many times you have said that sort of thing before."
And I don't reckon he'll be so anxious to be hanged twice that he'll confess to a murder for the fun of the thing.
When, however, the time of the nights arrives, they always take note of the courses of the moon and stars and thus reckon the measure of the days.
Only, it must be insisted, that all a married woman gains in salary or wages cannot be reckoned as increase of the family income.
For no new reference could be made after the tenth hour, that is, four o'clock in the afternoon, according to our mode of reckoning.
I reckon I caught up with my fighting for in all my working life I have always worked with gangs of men of from one to two-hundred and I never struck a man and no man ever struck me.
I don't know what ever become of Andy, but I reckon maybe he went and live with old Deacon Sears until he was free.
Nothing was known, or could be discovered, of his fate; no track nor trace remained to show whether he was to be reckoned among the dead or the living.
They were too terror-stricken to show much fight; and it was as well for them, for I was in a killing mood, and could have sent them to their last reckoning with a relish had they invited me.
If you are smart you may get aboard your new ship in time to take an observation at noon and check your own reckoning by ours.
"Max, you've been down this far before, I reckon, even if most all our camping trips were to the north and west of Carson?"
I do not think, by the way, that a very learned and distinguished philosopher was so very much out in his reckoning after all, when he laid down the general dogma, that all men are more or less mad.
"They got one thing as belonged to her," replied Will, "and that I've often seen with my own eyes, and I reckon it's a sure proof of the truth of their story; for them that wants proof."
It may or may not be an accident that the sons of adoption are more numerous than the sons of the house: it is not so certain that the one group is to be on any true reckoning preferred to the other.
That now their opportunity to pay up old scores had come, we fully realized, and anticipated with dread the day of reckoning.
There went half a year's work down the drain, all for nothing, and Lancaster would have that much less to show at the next Project reckoning.
We appeal to the feelings of the man who, under the consciousness of guilt, shrinks from the dread of a present Deity and the anticipation of a future reckoning.
The passion for reading fiction is both epidemic and chronic; and in saying this, do not infer that I reckon it as a disease.
"I reckon the transmission case is just below here, an' this is fixed to lift out, so you can see transmission without crawling underneath."
If we could only run across one of these posts, I reckon, there would be some way found for getting us down to civilization inside of a month or so.
Cried Lil Artha, casting a meaning look in the direction of Larry Billings, whose father, being a banker, was reckoned the richest man in all Hickory Ridge.
The Emperor of China reckons himself next after the King of the Arabs, who they all allow to be the first and beyond all dispute the most powerful of kings, because he is the head of a great religion.
Silks are made in Germany, in Austria, in the United States, and in England, and it is now reckoned that one-third of the silk stuffs used in France are imported.