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The anxious gentlemen draw up their chairs, and turn attentive ears. For nearly an hour, he buzzes and bores the contents of this report into their ears, takes sundry sips of water, and informs those present, and the world in general, that nearly forty thousand dollars have recently been consumed for missionary labor.

The rattlesnake buzzes an' quils up, an' onsheaths his fangs, an' makes bluffs to strike Bill an' Jim, but they only hops an' dances about, thinkin' up more ornery things to say. Every time the rattlesnake goes to crawl away which he does frequent he strikes the cactus thorns an' pulls back.

"Annabel Coffin said so much the last time she was here that my head buzzes now when I think of her." "Now, you hesh!" said Prudence. "Never can interest a man in such things. So you sold laces, did you, my dear? Oh, Ida May!" she exclaimed suddenly to Sheila, sitting on the other side of the table. "Ida May, what did you say you sold in that store? You worked for Hoskin & Marl, didn't you?"

Eaton, to take me round, and I git a little idee here and another there, and some day maybe I'll find the right one. "I see the newspapers is takin' up now what I'm askin' everybody. 'What will she do with her Million Dollars? They'll git a lot of answers, 'cause every one's got an idee what they'd do if they had that money. "But let's not talk of it no more my head buzzes.

The dark-faced priest finds himself wondering if the fly too has faced its Valley of Humiliation, and if it will plunge into it, when lo! it spreads its tiny wings and buzzes merrily across, leaving the watcher wingless and alone. Then the full weight of his burden fell upon him.

I'll be very tidy, captain; I'll keep in my own corner, if you'll please to give me one; and whether my head Buzzes, or whether it don't, I'll sit straight at my work all the same." "You will do your work," said the captain, sternly, "when you know who you are, who I am, and who that young lady is not before. Show me your shoes! Good. Show me you cap! Good. Make the breakfast."

'I don't care to hear singing to-day, my head buzzes so with all this flack, was the sullen answer; but I took no notice of this ill-tempered remark, and began a little Scotch ballad that I thought was bright and spirited.

His clothes were hung neatly on nails against the wall. One after another Jack secured the garments, slowly donning them. "How my head throbs and buzzes!" he muttered, his voice sounding unsteady. "Gracious! What could have happened? Let me see. The last I remember passing that high fence " But it was all too great a puzzle. Benson finally decided to stop guessing until some future time.

I can only grieve within my soul, and fret and sulk. At night my head buzzes with the rush of my thoughts and I cannot sleep.... Ah! If I were young!" Ivan Ivanich walked excitedly up and down the room and repeated: "If I were young." He suddenly walked up to Aliokhin and shook him first by one hand and then by the other.

The country-side buzzes with such whispers. "And let me point out to you, what you undoubtedly comprehend, that serious as is the forcible abduction of a slave-girl, the abduction of a freewoman, even if a freedwoman, is a far more serious matter.