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The higher it rose, the bigger and broader and brighter it grew, and, at last, Zaidie forgetting in her transport of joy all the perils that were yet to come sprang to her feet and clapped her hands, and cried: "There's America!" Then she dropped back into her long deck-chair and began a good, hearty, healthy cry.
If the bargain was struck, they slapped their hands together in a peculiar way, and the new owner clapped her purchase into a meal-bag, slung it over her shoulder, and departed with her squirming, squealing treasure as calmly as a Boston lady with a satchel full of ribbons and gloves.
The boy pulled, and the elephant moved his trunk. He stretched it out, he drew it in. Never was such a miracle before. And Tiverton, drunk with glory, clapped and shouted until the women folk clutched their sunbonnets and ran to see. No situation since the war had ever excited such ferment. Brad was the hero of his town.
"Dear me!" exclaimed Mrs Gilmour, all anxiety. "Look in the hamper again. Sure, we must have forgotten to take it out." But there also, alas! no bread was to be found. The Captain could not help laughing at Mrs Gilmour's face of dismay; while Nellie clapped her hands in high glee.
Petrie" again turning to me "that my constitution is inured to the use of opium. You will make due allowance for this. Mr. Li-King-Su, a graduate of Canton, will act as dresser." He turned laboriously to Zarmi. She clapped her hands and held the curtain aside.
"Oh, I am sorry, I did not mean please, Sheriff Paul, she may have the dress, poor thing! But for her, I should have had no man to marry on my wedding day next week." Sheriff Paul turned quickly. Elena, frightened, clapped two little hands over her mouth. Rosa shrugged indifferently, and tipping back her small, black head, listened to the music in the ballroom.
The sheriff instantly clapped his hand upon his captive's mouth, but at a look from his eyes took it away again. "I see," he said grimly, "you don't want to lure that man within reach of my revolver by calling to him." "I could have called him while you were away," returned the major quietly.
"One of these days," he said to the lady secretary when they were in the outer office, "I'll be your boss. And his, too. And I'll sack the pair of you!" "You'll find the lift at the end of the passage," she replied. Hinde mocked him for his failure to make the editor of the Daily Sensation accept his view of the universe. "That man sized you up the minute he clapped his eyes on you," he said.
We immediately clapped the helm a-weather and stood for her, and in less than an hour came up with her, and having fired fourteen shots at her, she struck. Our third lieutenant, Mr. Dennis, was sent in the boat with sixteen men to take possession of the prize and to return the prisoners to our ship.
"Take the facts, Petrie," Smith clapped his hands upon my table and bent down, peering into my eyes "is it characteristic of Fu-Manchu to kill a man by the direct agency of a snake and to implicate one of his own damnable servants in this way?" "But we have found no snake!" "Karamaneh introduced one in some way. Do you doubt it?"