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The party consisted of Rushing River and his mother, Moonlight, Skipping Rabbit, and Eaglenose. The latter, although still afflicted with a nose the swelled condition of which rendered it out of all proportion to his face, and interfered somewhat with his vision, was sufficiently recovered to travel, and also to indulge his bantering talk with the "skipping one," as he called his little friend.
His face, indeed, seemed to imply this, being thin and pale, and there was a kind of haunting look in his eyes. But his demeanor was creditable, he seemed quite free of any taint of the shiftlessness which his appearance might have suggested, and his amusement at the scouts' bantering nonsense was open and pleasant. Mr. Bennett contemplated him with just a tinge of dubiousness in his look.
And here you hit the nail on the head just with a chance thought. That shows what it means to be a brave young buckaroo, with heaps and piles of brains!" She laughed at him, but behind her bantering was a new respect for Ward's astuteness. "Go on. Tell me why you don't like Charlie Fox, or why you refuse to admit how nice and kind he is and " "But I don't refuse "
And Moses let himself be drawn, between bantering and contradicting, and jest and earnest, at some moments almost to forget that Mara was in the room. She took her sewing and sat with a pleased smile, sometimes breaking into the lively flow of conversation, or eagerly appealed to by both parties to settle some rising quarrel.
"And where may this house be?" he asked in bantering tones. "We shall leave many standing, but this one most surely of all." "It is upon the brow of the Palatine Hill " she began, and then a burst of applause gave notice that the compliment had struck home. "It is my father's," she concluded, blushing. Calavius was in ecstasy over the graceful tact of his protégé.
I think he would not quit the board if Armageddon were towards. He will be for eating, he will be for drinking, he will be for sleeping, and in the mean time God's chosen gentlemen have learned the value of living so long as to grant them a death for their King." Her voice had risen to a cry of defiance, but now it dropped again to its former note of bantering irony.
The perspiration produced by copious draughts seems to give enjoyment, the evaporation causing a feeling of coolness. The attendants of the chief, on these occasions, keep up a continuous roar of bantering, raillery, laughing, and swearing. The dance is kept up in the moonlight till past midnight.
"Why, look out, little father," said a Russian traveler, in a bantering tone; "you'll grease your shawls terribly if you mix them up with your tallow." "That amuses you," sharply answered the merchant, who had little relish for that sort of joke. "Well, if you tear your hair, or if you throw ashes on your head," replied the traveler, "will that change the course of events?
Of course, that congestion last winter pulled me down a little. But just see my color. I don't look much like an invalid, I'm sure." Ruby's voice was almost sharp. She pulled her arm away from Anne, as if in resentment, and ran downstairs, where she was gayer than ever, apparently so much absorbed in bantering her two swains that Diana and Anne felt rather out of it and soon went away.
The blade took a glut of blood, as when the wolf tears quick at dripping flesh. It was at a moment when Weisspriess was courteously bantering him with the question whether he was ready, meaning that the affirmative should open the gates of death to him. The stilet struck thrice. Weisspriess tottered, and hung his jaw like a man at a spectre: amazement was on his features.
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