United States or Turks and Caicos Islands ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
And I'll lose by it, too," said the butcher, but with an avaricious sparkle in his eye. "A dollar's worth of frankfurters!" gasped Purt. "Yes. An' I wish they'd ha' chocked the brute," complained the butcher. "I wish they had before he ever saw me," murmured Purt. He paid over the money and hurried away from the laughing crowd.
Not but what he was at the Kinzer house a good deal; nor did any of the other girls tell Miranda how very much he was in the way. He could talk, however, and one morning, about a fortnight before the day appointed, he said to Miranda and her mother: "We can't have so very much of a wedding; your house is so small, and you've chocked it so full of furniture.
Thence down to that commemorative fountain among the drooping trees. The good animals for whose comfort it was built would have had some difficulty in slaking their thirst just then, its basin being chocked up with decayed leaves.
One of these is held to be worth $20,000,000; another, $25,000,000, and the third something over $28,000,000. Those are truly wonderful diamonds, whether they exist or not; and yet they are of but little importance by comparison with the one wherewith the Boer wagoner chocked his wheel on that steep grade as heretofore referred to.
With hands joined, eyes bathed in tears, and voice chocked in grief, he then addressed Bhishma, saying, 'Taking thy protection, this battle, O slayer of foes, we ventured to vanquish the very gods and the Asuras with Indra at their head. What shall I say, therefore, of the sons of Pandu, heroic though they be, with their kinsmen and friends?
Strangely, as she fled through the narrow corridor, the low, flaring gas jets were extinguished one by one. She groped in darkness. Baskinelli's pleading voice became almost a consolation, a protection. Her elbow struck something in the passageway. The something shrank at the touch. She heard a quick drawn breath that was not Baskinelli's. She tried to run. The tiny passageway chocked her flight.
One of these is held to be worth $20,000,000; another, $25,000,000, and the third something over $28,000,000. Those are truly wonderful diamonds, whether they exist or not; and yet they are of but little importance by comparison with the one wherewith the Boer wagoner chocked his wheel on that steep grade as heretofore referred to.
Word Of The Day