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Something had got balled up, and the more I touched things the faster she went. We frightened four teams and had three runaways, and the air seemed full of horses rearing up and drivers yelling for us to stop.
The door opened again. "The patrol has come," said the officer who entered. "Let it wait," growled the chief. "Haggerty has evidently got us all balled up. I don't believe his fashionable thief has materialized at all; just a common crook. Well, he's got him, at any rate, and the gems." "You have, of course, the general invitation?" said Hamilton.
There were—oh, the gallant creatures! I hear their neigh upon the wind; there were—goodliest sight of all—certain enormous quadrupeds only seen to perfection in our native isle, led about by dapper grooms, their manes ribanded and their tails curiously clubbed and balled. Ha! ha!—how distinctly do they say, ha! ha!
It'll play the devil with us if we can't make good. 'What's the matter? said I. 'Well, he says, 'Murphy's had the job and has balled himself up." By this time the two men had their coats on, and were outside the building. "Let's see," said Bannon, "we go this way, don't we?" "Yes."
If we'd hit it goin' west, we'd be in the river. That's why it was sprung out instead of in." Lidgerwood's right hand, balled into a fist, smote the air, and his outburst was a fierce imprecation. In the midst of it Groner said, "Listen!" and a moment later a man, walking rapidly up the track from the direction of Little Butte station, came into the small circle of lantern-light.
But these yere hawgs I am tellin' erbout wuz different." "How was that?" "Yer see, thet thar ole boar wuz ez smart ez a copperation lawyer. He'd fixed them hawgs ter swim. First they got thar hoofs all balled up with gumbo, er sticky clay, then they worked ther dry grass inter ther clay and mixed 'em good an' stiff, lettin' 'em dry in ther sun.
The train despatcher came into the waiting room, and seeing them walked rapidly toward them. "Something has gone wrong, gentlemen. We've been talking to Gilsonville and he's all balled up. He isn't the same man who was there fifteen minutes ago." "They've got past McDowell then," said McNally. "And they couldn't have done that without catching him.
The snow balled under the hoofs of the horses the groaning vehicle proceeded at the pace of a hearse. At length, and after a period of such suspense, and such emotion, as Sidney never in after-life could recall without a shudder, the coach stopped the benumbed driver heavily descended the sound of the knocker knelled loud through the muffled air and the light from Mr.
It was as he suspected; the palm, though red from the effect of the strong suds and still scarcely healed after the torment of the Mary Rogers, was nevertheless manifestly unharmed by the labor which it was supposed Harrigan had performed the day before. The hand was wrenched away and a balled fist held under McTee's nose. "If you're curious, Angus, look at me knuckles, not me palm.
The big cadet nodded and started to rise from their place of concealment. Tom pulled him down. "Wait," he whispered sharply. "No use barging in on them yet. Maybe we can find out where Roger is first." Astro reluctantly crouched down again, his hamlike hands balled into fists. The two cadets watched Quent Miles and Brett work on the instruments awhile longer.
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