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The flavour of the mountain snows gave life to the breeze. Hunterleys buttoned up his coat but bared his head. "My young friend," he said, "this is wonderful." "It's a great climb," Richard assented, "and doesn't she just eat it up!" They paused for a moment at La Turbie.
I advise you to put on your overcoat." "Thanks, Captain, I will." The Captain in most friendly manner took the overcoat from its hook, shook it out, and held it ready to embrace its owner. Lermontoff shoved right arm, then left, into the sleeves, hunched the coat up into place, and buttoned it at the throat. "Again, Captain, my thanks. Lead the way and I will follow."
I still possess a document, duly drawn up and engrossed in the form of a deed by his brother, embodying a promise which he made to me jestingly one day, that when he was dead he would not fail to let me know, if ever ghosts were permitted to revisit the earth, by appearing to me, binding himself by this contract that the vision should be unaccompanied by the smallest smell of sulphur or flash of blue flame, and that instead of the indecorous undress of a slovenly winding-sheet, he would wear his usual garments, and the familiar brown great-coat with which, to use his own expression, he "buttoned his bones together" in his life.
She was looking at the thin heeled, buttoned boots before the fireplace; the stockings and furred garments cleaned of mud and dried on the backs of chairs. A cloud of color stole up from the blanket edge at her throat to the line of her hair. "You were wet," he explained simply, "and you were too spent to help yourself. I could not let you sleep in them."
He glanced merrily at Rachel Linton as he spoke, seeming quite at ease in her society now; while Tom Long appeared to be buttoned up in his stiffest uniform, though he was in undress white. "Go on, then," said Tom Long in a whisper, "but don't say anything stupid; the ladies can hear every word." "All right," said Bob.
'Sterious wretch, who's he? lisped Cleopatra. But a tap on the bonnet from Flowers seeming to jog her memory, she added, 'Oh! You mean yourself, you naughty creature! 'Devilish queer, Sir, whispered the Major to Mr Dombey. 'Bad case. Never did wrap up enough; the Major being buttoned to the chin. 'Why who should J. B. mean by Joe, but old Joe Bagstock Joseph your slave Joe, Ma'am? Here!
But Cap'n Amazon must be true to his manhood must uphold by his actions the character the storekeeper had builded for him. He buttoned his coat tightly across his chest and pushed through the group. Men and women alike made way for him, and in his ringing ears he heard such phrases as: "He's the man to do it!" "That's Cap'n Am'zon for ye!"
A stout man, of the Russian type, with heavy reddish moustaches streaked with gray, and an apoplectic neck, stood by her side, buttoned up in his frock-coat as in a military uniform. Every now and then, leaning over and brushing with his moustaches her delicate white ear, he would ask: "Are you happy, Marsa?"
To be sure, he would not get back to the city till three in the morning, but he would have no visions of robberies and fair lunatics and hard pressed maidens unjustly pursued, to mar his rest. Dunham buttoned his coat and turned up his collar as he started out into the street, for the night had turned cold, and his nerves made him chilly.
Now and then he paused; stole a furtive glance over his shoulder; bit his lip; rubbed out; corrected; glanced again; and then went on rapidly as before. In the meanwhile the old gentleman, who was somewhat red and irascible, began to get seriously uncomfortable. He frowned, fidgeted, coughed, buttoned and unbuttoned his coat, and jealously watched every proceeding of his tormentor.
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