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CHAPTER XLVI WATERMAN DOES A STRANGE THING For one who had professed himself as beastly hot and fagged, Waterman did a strange thing after he had left the Forum.

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Oh, Miss Nelson, you do look fagged out.

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The day had been a busy one, she was fagged, and read in his face that he saw her to be so.

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child, you look fagged out.

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Thirty years as head bookkeeper and confidential adviser in old John Burnit's merchandise establishment had not fitted lean Johnson for the less dignified and more flurried work of a newspaper office, even in the business department, and he was looking very much fagged.

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A poet can write even upon these; and I am a poet I trust, for I have fagged hard to be one.

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Early on the morning of the 14th, the ice slackening a little in our neighbourhood, we took advantage of it, though the people were much fagged, to tighten the cables, which had stretched and yielded considerably by the late pressure.

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When I gets home that night I finds Sadie all fagged out and drinkin' bromo seltzer for a headache.

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"You look fagged.

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"But if your brain is ever fagged, Heavy, it will only be from thinking up new and touching menus.

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And last of all I was fagged by my long ride and would have one night's unworried sleep, let the risk be ever so great.

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"I'm willing to do my work, but I won't be fagged by any nob in gold lace."

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I'm not to be fagged by any fellow that ever was born."

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Fagged out?

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Mrs. Holmes discreetly retired, followed by her offspring, and, late in the afternoon, when Dorothy and Dick were well-nigh fagged out, the structure was in place again.

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Fagged out, dispirited, with legs moving automatically, we still slithered down cleughs, laboured through dingles and corries, clambered up craggy mountainsides all slippery with the wet heather, weariness tugging at our leaden feet like a convict's chain and ball.

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They came slowly up the hill; the horses limping and fagged, the riders dusty and drooping.

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They consisted, according to faithful detailed report, of four extra pairs of thick yellow and white cotton socks; two shirts, five collars, five handkerchiefs; a pair of surprisingly vain dancing pumps; high tan laced boots; three suits of cheap cotton underclothes; his Sunday suit, which was dead black in color, and unimaginative in cut; four ties; a fagged toothbrush, a comb and hairbrush, a razor, a strop, shaving soap in a mug; a not very clean towel; and nothing else whatever.

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In the country of long hillslopes and sentinel buttes between the Dakota Bad Lands and Miles City she stopped to shout to a man whose plodding heavy back looked fagged, "Want a ride?"

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She went from the coins to the histories Pitt had told her would illustrate them; she fagged away at the dry details of her Latin grammar; she even tried to push her knowledge of plants and see further into their relations with each other, though in this department she felt the want of her teacher particularly.

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'Now look here,' said a voice suddenly out of the darkness outside: 'you're all fagged out, ain't ye?

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You look fagged.

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Mabel, I had not been with him ten minutes last May when he noticed my premature baldness, and general fagged-out and jaded look; and to hide the secrets of my prison-house, I had to pretend that I had been working too hard in Water Street.

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He felt as the crew of a small fishing-smack, who are being towed away by an enemy's cruiser, might feel on seeing a frigate with the Union Jack flying, bearing down and opening fire on their captor; or as a small boy at school, who is being fagged against rules by the right of the strongest, feels when he sees his big brother coming around the corner.

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At one time he writes: "After all, I have fagged through six pages, and made poor Wurmser lay down his sword on the glacis of Mantua--and my head aches--my eyes ache--my back aches--so does my breast--and I am sure my heart aches--what can duty want more?"

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Moreover, it pleased his small soul to see the daughter of Luck Cullison fagged and exhausted but still answering the spur of his urge.

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She was fagged, but not disheartened.

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I fagged for you at Harrow, and somehow I had the idea you'd turn up," and young Wetherby blushed again.

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Her face was drawn and there was a fagged, weary droop to the shoulders.

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Elizabeth asked, noting the fagged and heavy face, and the gathering tears.

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Lying there, gasping for breath, almost too fagged to rise, with the black bulk of the enemy looming through the dust cloud before him, he suddenly realized the source of the other's renewed strength.

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Fagged and out of breath, he dropped panting at the foot of the wall.

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The Depute Advocate was fagged; Whaup surly as a bear with a sore ear, on account of the tenuity of his fees; and Strachan, of course, in an extremely unconversational mood.

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I was anxious to push across the plateau and descend on the north-east side to a lower altitude, where we might likely find fuel, but my men, half starved and fagged, would go no farther.

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Henrietta fagged for her, did as many of her lessons as she could, applauded all her remarks, amply rewarded by Miranda's welcoming smile and her, "I've been simply pining for you, my child; come and hear me my French at once, like a seraphim."

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I know I'm fagged to death.

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He looked dusty, fatigued, fagged, and dejected.

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An intellectual movement touches the highest and the lowest with difficulty, but it does at length affect in a measure even those whose minds are narcotized by abundance as well as those whose brains are fagged by too much toil and care.

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The boys' regiment sent them many a wearied officer, too fagged in mind and body to enjoy his leave: the hospitals kept up a constant supply of convalescent and maimed patients; and there was a steady stream of Australians of all ranks, who came, homesick for their own land, and found a little corner of it planted in the heart of Surrey.

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Fagged out he looked.

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_Dolly._ I'm horribly fagged.

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It had promised to be a hot week in the city: Athalie, who had been nowhere except for an evening at some suburban restaurant, had begun to feel fagged and listless and in need of a vacation.

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The fat and coarse peasants of the Nivernais, with their great feet and hands, their short petticoats, and their hunting-horn shaped hats; and the women of the Parisian aristocracy, beautiful without doubt, but of that beauty fagged by watching and pleasure, and by that reversing of life which makes them what flowers would be if they only saw the sun on some rare occasions, and the vivifying air of the morning and the evening only reached them through the windows of a hot-house.

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* * * * * Next morning Barty left us early, with a portfolio of sketches under his arm, and his heart full of sanguine expectation, and spent the day in Fleet Street, or there-abouts, calling on publishers of illustrated books and periodicals, and came back to us at dinner-time very fagged, and with a long and piteous but very droll story of his ignominious non-success: his weary waitings in dull, dingy, little business back rooms, the patronizing and snubbing he and his works had met with, the sense that he had everything to learn--he, who thought he was going to take the publishing world by storm.

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CHAPTER V A PHOTOGRAPH On the third morning Beauchamp Lee returned to Mesa--unshaven, dusty, and fagged with hard riding.

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He bin at work all night on the ballast-train, an' come back reg'lar fagged out, an' hadn't had no vittles--an' a feller _wants_ something--and then the fust glass he has do's for 'n.

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They works all night, an' gets reg'lar fagged out, an' then the fust drop does 'em.

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For all the active use he can make of them those spare hours of his do not deserve to be called leisure; they are the fagged end of the day.

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As you may see, I have had a long and wearisome journey and am--what you call--fagged.

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You've got to be fagged out before you can sleep over the racket those little pests make."

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After ringing our horses, we wandered round in the dark, and finding a convenient cart in a barn, soon after had a good enough fire to cook some meat we managed to secure, and then, dead fagged, turn in to sleep.

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I am feeling awfully fagged to-day, so hope you will, in reading this letter, make allowance for extenuating circumstances.

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I was fagged out, and when we rested while our gunner friends had their innings, laid down in the blazing noon-day sun, and, with a stone for a pillow, half-dozed for an hour or so.

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That night was almost a sleepless one, for though dead fagged, we all had to do pickets on the ground we had won.

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In the first place, the very difficult task of keeping the volatile mind of a child continuously fixed to the subject during the lengthened reading of the whole narrative will be unnecessary;--the irritation and uneasiness which such a lengthened exercise must produce in a child will be avoided;--time will be economised, the labour of the teacher will be spared, and the mind of the child at the close of the exercise, instead of being fagged and prostrated, will be found vigorous and lively.

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"I think sometimes I'm a bit guilty that she at her age--that it should seem to be necessary, I mean--Maybe I imagine it, but it seems to me as though Elice was sort of fagged and different this winter."

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I suppose it was all due to the excitement and being fagged out with what we'd gone through in that black hole."

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You're fagged now, sir, with all we've done since we started, and that explosion gave you a horrid shaking up.

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"Head's resting on my clasped hands, sir, and he's sleeping like a baby--regular fagged out."

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Ten minutes later the head overseer, going his rounds, on looking into Pedro's cabin, found that individual apparently fast asleep on the floor, with his back against the wall, and such an utterly fagged, worn-out look pervading his entire personality that the man was almost betrayed into a momentary feeling of pity for "the poor boy."

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At last, after nearly a quarter of an hour's arduous labour, and several narrow escapes from a disastrous accident, the welcome shelter of the cave-like fissure was reached, and, feeling their way cautiously into it, they laid Walford down, released him from his uncomfortable bonds, and hungry, thirsty, and utterly fagged out as they were with the arduous labours of the day, threw themselves down beside him, and, with a half-unconscious thanksgiving for their preservation trembling upon their lips, fell at once into a profound slumber.

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The men looked sharply at their commander, as if fully expecting to receive orders to row with all their might; and Mr Anderson noticed it, for he turned to the two middies, and by way of answering the silent question-- "No," he said; "we're all fagged as it is, and no pulling on our part will bring us alongside of a boat that can sail like that.

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It was a long and heavy job, occupying him the entire day, and sending him back to the island at night completely fagged out.

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He looked fagged to exhaustion.

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My memory would not take hold of them; could not keep them; with all my trying I grew only more and more stupefied and fagged, and less capable of doing what I had to do.

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But he had been tired and fagged out, he remembered, on the first occasion of their meeting--too tired to think of anything but his appointment at Broome street, and Priscilla's Greek grammar.

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The horses were now getting badly fagged; and, in order to save them a long round-about drive, he lifted and laid low a portion of the fence, led his horses cautiously over it, and, leaving it to be re-erected by a servant next day, he started direct for the Station.

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At the present time he is about the best at middling the ball in front of goal of any player going, and is one of those forwards who never seem to get into a fagged state near the close of a match.

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At the finish of the thirty-six holes Vardon said, 'I never felt so fagged out in my life.

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We reached H. at 10 p.m., almost as fagged and quite as dirty as that major.

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I'm a bit fagged out, and Dollops, I know, is all but starving.

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There were three shanties,--they don't often have more than two or three in one place,--they were empty, and the snow had drifted in; Bob Stokes's oxen were fagged out, with their heads hanging down, and the horses were whinnying for their supper.

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In mean streets and alleys it was inexpressibly dreary: the fagged inhabitants lacked even energy to quarrel.

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Fagged, at length, and soaked with rain, I left the slough, and gaining the highroad, pressed towards the city to meet the cavalcade.

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They were watching her and her dishevelled companion with the sophisticated amusement of men who, by clean daylight, encounter fagged-out revellers of a riotous night.

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"You looked fagged out."

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He came in quite fagged and foot-sore to his dinner, and far too tired to eat.

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But with her horse fagged as it was, we had no idea that we would fail to get even a sight of her.

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To you, who supply the golden nectar that stimulates the jaded masculine soul, Soothes the shaky masculine nerves, stirs the fagged masculine mind, inspires the slow masculine sentiment, And starts the sluggish blood a-flowing and the whole day right!

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A more fagged-out set of men I never put eyes on.'

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Frances looked pale and fagged; she was not in the becoming white dress which she had worn during the first few days of Arnold's visit; she was in gray, and the gray was not particularly fresh nor cool in texture.

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He passed the great milestones, Fourteenth Street, Twenty-third Street, Forty-second Street, Fifty-ninth Street, and not till crossing the last did he begin to feel fagged.

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Never had he felt so completely fagged, and it was with no little concern that he contemplated the reflection of his face in the small oval mirror which hung on the rough gray plaster wall opposite, just over the small, cheap, brown-stained wooden bureau.

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We are well fagged and worked and worried; we return to Town to-morrow afternoon.

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She began telling him about Tom, and a funny scrape he had got into last term; and this led to a conversation about her home, and here Bessie grew eloquent; and she was in the midst of a description of Cliffe and its environs when Mrs. Sefton reappeared, looking fagged and weary, and informed them that Edna had a headache and had retired to bed.

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But Tom was not fagged as George was, nor was he so hasty in his temper.

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It was an hour later when the loaded horses came into view herded by fagged woodsmen and piloted by Peter Doane, who strode silently, tirelessly, at their head.

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M. Jules St.-Ange stood long, gazing at the receding vessel as it now disappeared, now reappeared beyond the tops of the high undergrowth; but when an arm of the forest hid it finally from sight, he turned townward, followed by that fagged-out spaniel his servant, saying as he turned, "Baptiste?"

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Jesse plumb fagged out.

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"I'm going to eat my sandwiches here; I'm fagged out," declared Gipsy, sitting down on a stone and suddenly realizing that she was tired and hungry.

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You look more rested now, but you still have quite a fagged look."

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so fagged out and tired!

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You certainly look quite fagged out."

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One is _fagged_ by drudgery; he is _jaded_ by incessant repetition of the same act until it becomes increasingly difficult or well-nigh impossible; as, a horse is _jaded_ by a long and unbroken journey.

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Mr. Harcourt looked pale and fagged, but there was marvellous content in his whole mien.

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His day's work had been somewhat arduous, and he felt fagged and weary.

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"Me," answered a voice from behind the table, and the little girl, fagged but blissful, came forward smilingly, a long, brown-paper package clasped tightly to her breast.

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Nor do I remember very distinctly the events of the night after we got out of the Musketeers Keys; for I was pretty well fagged out myself, and all of us who had the watch below turned in to take the first wink of sleep we could catch for forty hours.

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But by far the greater number are too much fagged out with the exertions of the day to move from their present resting-places.

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After having gotten a late start from Skagway, they had gone only about two miles up the Canyon when both men and mules seemed too much fagged to proceed further without rest, and as night was close upon them they decided to make camp.

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