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"Here, Clay," Arethusa began clambering ungracefully over the brakes and handles around the wheel of the car, and across him before he could move. "Here, you take it, I must go speak to Mrs. Cherry!" "Well, if it ain't Miss Worth'ton!" exclaimed Mrs. Cherry when Arethusa had reached her, after a rather dangerous scramble between trucks and horses and street cars. Mrs.
Without another word, he released the brakes, and the car sped onward. Now they were plunging into a magnificent defile shadowed by sheer cliffs that on the eastern side rose to a height of five hundred feet. Fluttering rock pigeons circled far up in the azure riband that spanned the opposing precipices.
What! that crisped and winding stream, with flowers on its very tide the water-violet and the water-lily these silent brakes the cool of the gathering evening the still and luxuriance of the universal life around you; are not these enough of themselves to tempt you forth? if not, go to your excuse is hypocrisy."
Perhaps this was owing to the hot sun that struck me on the neck one afternoon coming down the Town Hill where I was obliged to hang on to the rear of the cart because the brakes had given out. However I was able to send Heda a wedding gift in the shape of her jewels and money that I recovered from the bank, which she had never expected to see again; also to arrange everything about her property.
"Listen, woman of the West, who even at this moment stands in my shadow, between that faint engine whistle and the grinding of the brakes as the train comes to a standstill, you must make your choice. A few moments ago I saw you toss a silver coin and decide quickly that which had been decided already for you since the beginning of all time. "Once more you shall cast your die.
We waded through gorges and chasms, breast-deep with laurel and ferns; we followed the banks of mountain streams for miles; we wound our way like Indians through brakes of pine road side, hill side, river side, mountain side we explored in our search for the miraculous plant. As the old doctor said, it must have grown scarce and hard to find. But we followed our quest.
Besides, the men at the golf-club heard them singing 'Aaron and Moses. I shall have complaints about that from the parents of day-boys. Decency must be preserved." "We're coming to help," said all the guests. The Upper School were caned one after the other, their overcoats over their arms, the brakes waiting in the road below to take them to the station, their journey-money on the table.
He followed the cart path through it, until he was near the boundary wall; then he threw himself down in the midst of some young brakes and little wild green things, and presently fell to weeping, with loud sobs, like a baby. All day he had been strained up to an artificial height of manhood; now he had come down again to his helpless estate of boyhood.
The chauffeur was compelled to put the brakes on so suddenly that the motor dashed into a tree, with the result that the occupants several persons connected with the army were hurled on to the road and received dangerous injuries. "In Munich a chauffeur was shot dead by a sentinel because he did not stop soon enough. Even children are not spared in this degrading fear of spies.
The music of the words it is going to rain penetrated my soul like an air from Bellini, and I felt something stir in my heart, which, well cultivated, might turn into love. The locomotive soon devoured the distance between Mantos and Pont de l'Arche. An abominable scraping of iron and twisting of brakes was heard, and the train stopped.
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