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After eating his own lunch the surveyor stretched himself out flat on his back on the ground with every muscle relaxed. The sound of the horse munching his feed ceased; the animal's head dropped lower, and he too wise in the wisdom of the open country relaxed his muscles and rested. For an hour they remained there, then again the bridle was adjusted, the saddle girths tightened, and they went on.
Kemp pushed the striker button and the torch flared. "Watch your eyes," he warned. The Planeteers reached for belt controls and turned the rheostats that darkened the clear bubbles electronically. Kemp adjusted his flame until it was blue-white, a knife of fire brighter by far than the sun.
Lily could show twelve years of unblemished health, and the case promised to be a light one. The nurse spoke as reassuringly, and after a moment of alarm Mrs. Waythorn had adjusted herself to the situation.
He even went so far as to combat some dictum of the master's, whereat that gentleman adjusted his glasses and, looking pleasantly at the youth, queried: "And whose son are you?" When Dorothy Menpes was a babe in the cradle a white feather lay across her infant brow. The sight pleased Whistler.
"Shall we go in and take him?" asked an excited youngster. "I'll give him a chance to come easy," said Halleck. He squared himself, adjusted his dusty hat, and went straight up the steps. "Excuse me, Mr. Smith," said he, "you are forgetting an engagement you made with some of your friends yesterday." This was the freshest thing in the history of the college. The Sophomore's fingers twitched.
How curiously everything adjusted itself to favor the bringing about of this horrible catastrophe! The bait did not arrive till the half-past twelve train, and they were obliged to work the whole night getting their trawls ready, thus leaving the way perfectly clear for Louis Wagner's awful work.
Horace White and I addressed ourselves to the task of "fetching him into camp" there being in point of fact nowhere else for him to go though we had to get up what was called The Fifth Avenue Conference to make a bridge. Truth to say, Schurz never wholly adjusted himself to political conditions in the United States.
If the king journeyed at the head of an army the presence of the Duke of Alva would be indispensable, who, on the other hand, if matters were peaceably adjusted, would be less required, and must make room for his rivals.
"But, Patricia, dear, won't you ?" "Let me finish, please. I have not quite done so, as yet." "Well, dear?" "I have agreed to the terms that were adjusted between you and my father, respecting the loan of a certain sum of money by you to him. Of course, you may repudiate those terms if you please, and it is a matter of indifference to me whether you do so, or not.
The station was one hundred yards north of the water pipe, so the agent could not get a good view of the freight car. It was obviously no car to support the special powder train story: its end was broken open wide, and the sixteen men within were waiting in readiness to swing off and fight. Brown and Knight adjusted the water pipe. Andrews hurried forward to meet the keeper.
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