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"I was certain that I smelled tobacco," he sneered. "It would seem that there are other bridegrooms than myself." "Those crowns, or I'll break every bone in your body!" I balled my fists. Nothing would have pleased me better at that moment than to pummel the life out of him. Slowly he drew out the purse. It was one of those limp silk affairs so much affected by our ancestors.
"Your worthinesses are destroying this business and all Phoenicia," said Rabsun, with a voice which was loud now. Hiram balled his fists, but was silent. "Thou must confess, worthiness," said he, after a while, "that of those twenty thousand towns his holiness owns few in reality."
The claws clenched into balled fists, the lips drew back, showing blackened and decayed teeth. Bristling like an aroused beast, his forehead wrinkling, his nostrils twitching, he made an inarticulate, growling, brute-like noise in his throat. His head twisted sideways. Of a sudden the sweat burst out upon his face, and he began to back away, warily.
I tried to shut the power off, and in doing so I balled things up worse than ever. Then I went to sleep, and just woke up." "Have you any idea where we are?" "No, but I can make a fair estimate, I think," and glancing at the empty chamber in which the bar had been, he took out his notebook and pen and figured for a few minutes.
He would have fallen overboard had he not kept his grip on that wrist, and as he reached the perilous edge, the other man jerked back to free his arm. He succeeded, but the effort checked the slide of Harrigan's great body, and the next instant the Irishman was on his feet. He drove at the elusive figure with his balled fist, but the other ducked beneath the blow and fled down the ladder.
AUNT ISABEL: I couldn't imagine Madeline without a racket. It's meant for tennis balls. AUNT ISABEL: Why, you'll play on the courts at Morton College. Who has a better right? MADELINE: Oh, I don't know. It's pretty much balled up, isn't it? AUNT ISABEL: Yes; we'll have to get it straightened out. It isn't as if they were people who were anything to you.
This was his own version of his first letter: "Omar Gribble, send it to his office, Miss McGoun, yours of twentieth to hand and in reply would say look here, Gribble, I'm awfully afraid if we go on shilly-shallying like this we'll just naturally lose the Allen sale, I had Allen up on carpet day before yesterday and got right down to cases and think I can assure you uh, uh, no, change that: all my experience indicates he is all right, means to do business, looked into his financial record which is fine that sentence seems to be a little balled up, Miss McGoun; make a couple sentences out of it if you have to, period, new paragraph.
This because he balled the deputy warden out for chaining another prisoner up by the wrists. IRA: Well, he'd better a-minded his own business. And you better mind yours. I've got no money to spend in the courts. It's been clear since the day my father's father got it from the government and it stays clear till I'm gone. It grows the best corn in the state best corn in the Mississippi Valley.
But look at Navajoa, how balled up that company is with its stocks all scattered around. Until it comes in for transfer nobody knows who's got it. They may be sold clear out and never know it. No, I may look easy, but I've been dog-bit once and I've got the leg to show for it.
Then, as she ran to meet him: "Oh, Father, but it's better than a pair o' sore eyes to see ye! I'm all balled up wi' trouble. John's huntin' a lost trunk. Bobby's up-stairs with a slab o' raw beef on his head. Mike's locked up for runnin' over a boy. And my big Jim and my wagon is tied up outside the station, till it's all straightened out. Will ye help me?"
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