 He enjoyed killing blue-bottle flies. He got a big kick out of killing muskrats, and birds. He loved to fight. He hated those chickens. He had had a lot of dogs in his life, and he had been severe and often harsh with them. And what of the prairie dogs...  The John Fante Reader - 55. oldalszerző: John Fante, Stephen Cooper - 2010 - 336 oldalKorlátozott előnézet - Információ erről a könyvről
 | 1856 - 404 oldal
...regretted, as I had little taste for the society of the vulgar; but, again, as it could not be helped, the only thing to do was to make the best of it. A wheelbarrow was therefore bought by Nip, with what else was necessary to make me a complete " walking... | |
 | John Hill (novelist.) - 1885 - 310 oldal
...before. Of course he had never expected any one to accept his challenge, but now it had been accepted the only thing to do was to make the best of it and trust the rest, as he beautifully put it, to Providence. " That Providence," reflected he, ironically,... | |
 | Julius H. Hurst - 1897 - 296 oldal
...water, and it was a mystery to Stephen how such a man ever came to be ordained. But ordained he was, and the only thing to do was to make the best of it ; so the young man put his antipathy in his pocket and resolutely devoted himself to his task, determined... | |
 | Daniel Wait Howe - 1899 - 476 oldal
...broader one if they could have obtained it, but the one they had was as liberal as they could get, and the only thing to do was to make the best of it. But in the climate of New England the charter took on a marvelous growth, of which, at the time it... | |
 | Alan Dale - 1904 - 400 oldal
..."Of three cooks!" I insisted. Letitia turned away from me, looking miserable, and my heart smote me. The only thing to do was to make the best of it, after all. I had a particular objection to degenerating into an ogre-husband, and probably I had been... | |
 | Charles W. Marsh - 1910 - 364 oldal
...directs." But we knew that the political system of running the institutions had been established and that the only thing to do was to make the best of it; so we tried to harmonize interests as far as possible. Dr. Whitman, the superintendent, suggested some... | |
 | W. L. George, Walter Lionel George - 1911 - 396 oldal
...wild, as a consequence of Victoria's illness. Her view was that it didn't do to complain, and that the only thing to do was to make the best of it. But she loved Victoria, and it was almost a voluptous joy for her to help her friend to undress every... | |
 | Margaret Peterson - 1913 - 418 oldal
...Gerald had been too foolishly in love to find out things; still the marriage having been accomplished, the only thing to do was to make the best of it. He was very nice to Esther after that, for he saw how dull the days were to her, and guessed how difficult... | |
 | Ida Dandridge Bennett - 1903 - 764 oldal
...Gerald had been too foolishly in love to find out things; still the marriage having been accomplished, the only thing to do was to make the best of it. He was very nice to Esther after that, for he saw how dull the days were to her, and guessed how difficult... | |
 | 1919 - 376 oldal
...encouraged sane and healthy amusement in every possible way. We had prepared for the worst, and now the only thing to do was to make the best of it. Under the direct stimulus of official help the BSF saw a great efflorescence of theatrical entertainment.... | |
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