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He was about to upbraid them when he discovered the head of Teddy Tucker protruding from the head of the drum. "Wha wha what " The bass drummer paid no attention to him. Instead he grabbed the offending boy by the feet, bracing his own feet against the rim of the instrument, and began to pull. The drummer was red in the face, perspiring and angry. Teddy popped out like a pea from a pod.
As we turn a corner, we seem to plunge into a rocky cavern; our feet tread on roughly imbedded rocks; the sides of the cave jut out in refuse boulders, harsh, dark-colored, ashen; overhead are beams of hard wood, bracing and strengthening the excavation. We traverse this gallery hastily. Now that we are here, we are conscious of excitement.
It was not, Virginia decided, quite like choosing gowns at her modiste's; yet she was bright-eyed and laughing at the end. Bill unhitched a pack, inserted the bundle of clothes, then bracing his boots against the horse's side pulled and tugged until the pack was right again. "You'll be glad you've got these things before the trip is done," he prophesied.
"Couldn't you persuade your uncle that a more bracing climate might suit him, too?" suggested Eliot, with a faint smile. Tony flashed him a quick glance from under his long lashes half laughing, half deprecating. "That's just it," he admitted frankly. "I can't budge him. Doreen and I are well, half engaged, you know " "Half-engaged?" asked Eliot, lifting his brows. Tony nodded, suddenly moody.
Less as I should imagine a yellow dog ought to feel, I mean, for, as a matter of fact, most yellow dogs of my acquaintance seem to be as happy as their brown or white or black relatives. I walked up the Lane, turned into the Lower Road, and headed for the village. The day was a gorgeous one, the air bracing as a tonic, and my thirtieth birthday was not yet so far astern as to be lost in the fog.
Then he forgot everything again, until presently his burning throat recalled his consciousness. He felt the cold, bracing air in his nostrils, and slowly, very slowly at first, he began to hear and understand the sounds around him.
It was early October now, and the air was bracing and exhilarating, for all the afternoon was mild. The trees were flaming with color, and the leaves had begun to sift down. In the grove squirrels romped and chattered. It seemed good to Frank to get away alone under the shadow of the trees.
As the coach jogged along on its weary journey, not even the bracing surroundings of Robbie's present elevated and exposed position had the effect of keeping him actively awake. He dozed in short snatches and awoke with slight shudders, feeling alternately hot and cold.
Everybody can pick out his own of course, but I am inclined to believe just at the moment, that if there was a good man everybody in this nation knew of who was being a lawyer backwards say in New York or London a man who had a big practice and who had a fine record in bracing men up to fight themselves and not to be fooled about themselves, the man that most people in this country would like to take up a national collection for, have sent to him and done over at once, no matter what it cost, would be Henry Cabot Lodge.
"John," he said, "this country life is great. Early to bed and early to rise makes a man's stomach digest mince pies how's that? Notice the air out here? How pure and fresh and bracing! You ought to go out and run a mile, John!" "I'd like to run ten miles," I answered, truthfully. "Exercise, that's the essence of life, my boy!" he continued.
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