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If Jock had entered on all-fours, doing a double tango to vocal accompaniment, it is doubtful if the man at the desk would have looked up. Pencil between his fingers, head held a trifle to one side in critical contemplation of the work before him, eyes narrowed judicially, lips pursed, he was the concentrated essence of do-it-now. Jock waited a moment, in silence. The man at the desk worked on.
I evaded the question by querying if he was always so quiet and good-tempered. "Oh dear, no. He is considered a particularly bad-tempered man. Not one of the snarling nasty tempers, but " Here the re-entry of the owner of the temper put a stop to this conversation. Harold gave O'Doolan rides on his back, going on all-fours.
By the time they parted Robert had arranged with his old enemy that he should become his surety with a rich cousin in Churton, who, always supposing there were no risk in the matter, and that benevolence ran on all-fours with security of investment, was prepared to shield the credit of the family by the advance of a sufficient sum of money to rescue the ex-agent from his most pressing difficulties.
In a little time they were such good friends, he and the boys, that he was down on all-fours playing horses with them, and did some quite new tricks which they thought extremely amusing; he then invited them to come for a drive the next day. After a thaw, there had been an unusually heavy fall of snow; the town was white and the state of the roads perfect.
And if he don't, you should worry! I tell you there ain't one of 'em breathes is worth more than his bank-book." "God! my head!" The figure on all-fours rose to full height, drying each forearm on her apron. "Lay down, dearie, and just don't you worry.
I was crouching on the leads outside the dormer window as Raffles climbed into sight within. "They're after us up here!" I whispered in his face. "On the next roof! I hear them!" Up came Raffles with his hands upon the sill, then with his knees between his hands, and so out on all-fours into the narrow rivulet of lead between the sloping tiles.
We tried to walk on all-fours, catching hold of the briars. In this way we did a hundred yards on our knees. But our knees were bleeding. "I have had enough of it," said the colonel, lying down; "they may come and fetch me if they will. Let us sleep." I still had the strength to sit half up, and shout with all the breath that remained within me.
She had a great habit of stealing out often by the most dangerous routes over roofs, etc., at night in the moonlight, running and jumping, waving her arms, throwing herself on the ground, rolling over, walling on all-fours, turning somersaults, hugging trees, playing hide-and-seek with the shadow fairy-folk, now playing and feeling fear and running away. She invoked trees, stars, etc.
Our Lord here takes the common human point of view, and says, 'Life is the time for activity, and it must be the more diligent because it is ringed by the darkness of the night. What precisely does our Lord intend by His use of that metaphor of the night? No figures, we know, run upon all-fours.
And like a frightened hare the young foreigner darted away, dodging and diving up the slope, only to fall exhausted at the top, and then to creep on all-fours to the shelter of the office. Already some of the armed rioters had managed to climb far up the hill-side and from behind rock or ledge to open fire on the platform.
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