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Therefore, I maintain that if our Projectile had struck that bolide, its velocity, suddenly checked, would have given rise to a heat capable of completely volatilizing it in less than a second." "Not a doubt of it!" said the Captain.
No, not dead, but the doctor shook his head seriously, and their exclamations of joy and relief were soon checked. Not to follow them through the process of restoring animation, we will say that he was carefully removed to Mr. Barton's house, and tenderly watched by his kind wife. He had been stunned by the fall, but this was not the extent of the mischief.
The count hesitated, and looked interesting. Arabella blushed and trembled. The words, "You will speak to my father," were on the young lady's tongue. But she checked herself, and remained silent. It would not do to make that reference of the subject. Then came a gentle pressure of hair upon her cheek, and a gentle pressure from the gloved hand in which her own was resting.
Pete Barnes was gorgeous in checked trousers and Prince Albert coat, with his bushy iron-gray hair well oiled and combed in what used to be known as a roach, a style popular in his early manhood. Some of the veterans were in uniform the blue or the gray. All wore white carnations in their button-holes. The guests shook hands with the hosts and then moved on.
I don't allow anybody to interfere with me when I'm eating." Gray was checked less by the exasperation, by the authority in the speaker's tone, than by the fact that the entire complexion of the affair had changed. The ruffian, who had entered so confidently, was no longer the aggressor; a mere look, a word, a gesture from this aged, unknown person had put him upon the defensive.
Indeed, he progressed until he himself checked his rise by inventing a machine that made his handwork unnecessary. His employer at once claimed and utilized this invention, to which, by the laws of those days, he was entitled, and thus the cornerstone on which my father had expected to build a fortune proved the rock on which his career was wrecked.
He looked at his watch. "Three o'clock," he said, and turned the light upon her face. "God, you are " He checked the riotous words that were driven to his lips by the glimpse of her lovely face. "I-I beg your pardon!" "For what?" she asked, after a moment. "For for blinding you with the light," he floundered. "Oh, I can forgive you for that," she said composedly.
Nor have I yet been able to trace the agents of his bloody will; but my investigations have been vigilant and unceasing, and revenge, although delayed, is ripening over their heads." Here the noble youth was checked in his narrative by a sudden burst of agony, which defied all disguise and control.
He shook with futile passion. Jimmy watched him in interested silence. Sir Thomas ran to the jewels, and would have crushed them beneath his feet, had not Jimmy sprang forward and jerked him away from them. "Be quiet," he said. "Confound you, sir, will you stop that noise?" Sir Thomas, unaccustomed to this style of address, checked the flood for a moment.
He sat on a table in the Johnson home and dangled his checked legs with an enticing nonchalance. His hair was curled down over his forehead in an oiled bang. His rather pugged nose seemed to revolt from contact with a bristling moustache of short, wire-like hairs.
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