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My wife's step-father, as fine and hearty a specimen as you'd wish to see, sir, was taken only last month; at breakfast, too, as he was chipping his third egg." Beaumont-Greene said loftily, "Blow your wife's step-father and his third egg. Here's the letter." He flung down the letter and marched out of the shop. The tradesman looked at him, shaking his head. "He'll never come back," he muttered.
The big man toppled over backward, his blazing Sten gun chipping plaster from the ceiling. Rick let go of his grip on the knees and clawed for the man's throat. Scotty concentrated on the Sten gun, grabbing the hot barrel and bending backward. The big Sudanese heaved, and Rick felt as though he was a terrier hanging to a wild bull. The man was incredibly strong.
OBJECTS OF STONE. Nine spear-heads, like arrow-points, of slate, six of which have linear patterns scratched on them. Some are perforated with round holes, and all were made by grinding and polishing. One object of slate, shaped like a knife, was made by chipping. "This knife," says Mr.
Her breath was blown away again before the sentence was finished, if it was meant to be finished, and Master Lorimer came to insist on the ladies taking shelter in his covered waggon, where the Prioress was already installed. Through rain and sleet they reached Chipping Barnet in due time on the third day's journey, and here they were to part from the merchant's wains.
You'll drive the large, me the small." "Hah! Tha'z a gran' scheme. At the en', dinner at Antoine', all the men chipping in! Castanado Dubroca me Mr. Chezter, eh?" "With the greatest pleasure if I'm included." "Include' hoh! By the laws of nature!" M. De l'Isle went on up-stairs. "We had a dinner like that," Beloiseau said, "only withoud the joy-ride and withoud those three Mlles.
A similar precaution is taken with the passage; and therefore the whole is a solid piece of work capable of remaining in excellent condition for years. Moreover, thanks to the wall hardened by the salivary fluid, the structure can be removed from its matrix by chipping it carefully away.
Until the moment when she took "the liberty of chipping in," to use her own expression, the amount of twaddle talked had been appalling. The bishop had told us all he had learnt about China during a visit to San Francisco, while the man who had spent the last twenty years of his life in the country was busy explaining his views on the subject of the English drama.
Oh, yes; speaking of Blenham chipping in with us, as you put it." "With you!" corrected Terry briefly. "We're mortgaged to old man Packard," continued Temple, somewhat hasty about it now that he had fairly plunged into the current of what he had to say, as though the water were cold and he was anxious to clamber out upon the far side.
Two quaint-looking old gentlemen were gazing out upon the rush of Broadway two old gentlemen so unusual that even the habitues of the place, those who sat tilted back all day chipping the arms of their chairs with their pen-knives, or sipping countless toddies and juleps, were still staring at them in undisguised astonishment.
"Now who would suppose that I would ever again see that chipping from a London gaol I told you of my shipmate of cleanly habit and unsocial nature. Yet there he is." The afternoon sunshine lay hot upon the house and garden of Verney Manor the leaves drooped motionless, the glare of the white paths hurt the eye, the flowers seemed all to be red.
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