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He knew about how long he would be in traversing the distance between his own house and the scene of the coming tragedy, and the morning after his resolve was made he bolted his own breakfast in a hurry, seized his spear, and scurried down the wood road until he approached the verge of the Maitland clearing. Then began a series of extraordinary movements. Mr.
You know what I was doing after Claire bolted with that swine: killing time and killing myself that's what I was doing. It was like going into church out of the sun to hear her at her poetry, and see her. Oh, a lovely girl she was!" "She's a lovelier woman than you and I are fit to look at," said Chevenix, "if you ask me." "Damn you, I know all about that.
He recollected, however, that he had bolted his door; and such inveterate materialists are we in the midst of our spiritualism, that this reassured him, and he breathed a deep sigh, and began to grow tranquil. But after a rest of a minute or two, there came a louder and sharper knock at his door; so that instinctively he called out, "Who's there?" in a loud, stern key.
And long before the day came when he bolted the last seed that remained in the hollow fence-rail he had begun to wonder where he should find more food. While he had been sleeping the birds that stayed in Pleasant Valley during the winter had been feasting greedily upon the very kind of fare that Dickie Deer Mouse needed.
"Gentlemen," Mr. Peaslee began, in shaky tones, "I guess I got a word to say afore ye find a true bill agin that little feller. He's as peaceable a boy as ever I saw, and I guess I can't let him stay all bolted and barred into no jail, when it don't need anythin' but my say-so to get him out.
"Hush, sir!" he repeated, and Barnabas saw that he was creeping forward on tip-toe, and, though scarce knowing why, he himself did the same. They found the great swing doors fast, bolted from within, and, in this still dead hour, save for their own soft breathing, not a sound reached them. Then Barnabas laughed suddenly, and clapped Master Milo upon his small, rigid shoulder.
The sea by this time was calm; he got the machine over the stern, and had the square end of the cap bolted to the stern-post.
I declined to lend him the sovereign, but I did lend him half a crown, and as he bolted to America the very next day, I think I had the best of the bargain. My friend accepted the analogy and dropped the subject.
Giddings. "Good Heavens!" I said. "Did I deal? Won't somebody play my hand? I'm worried about Sally." Then I bolted upstairs, and there was Sally lying on her bed, with a glass tube sticking out of her mouth. "How are you," I said, "and what are you doing?" "I feel rather sick, Sam," she said. And she looked so pale that I could have screamed. "And I'm taking my temperature."
My absence had been noted by Sola on her awakening, and she had quickly informed Tars Tarkas, who had set out immediately with a handful of warriors to search for me. As they had approached the limits of the city they had witnessed the actions of the bull ape as he bolted into the building, frothing with rage.
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