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Cooler thoughts came. He mused deeply a few minutes, and then, clinching his teeth, returned slowly to the little parlor: he sat down and took his line with a brisk and cheerful air. "You were asking me some questions about Australia. I can tell you all about that country, for I have a relation there who writes to me. And I have read all the books about it, too, as it happens."
"It is nothing," replied Clif, resolutely clinching his teeth and continuing to guide the boat. Just then the welcome sound of the firing of cannon to seaward reached their ears. "It is the New York!" cried Clif. "She is taking a hand in the scrimmage!" It was true. With deadly accuracy, the flagship was hurling shrapnel shell over the heads of the bluejackets into the battery on shore.
"It is my nose!" exclaimed her mother, laughing, and her laugh was echoed throughout the room. "This nose on the human face is horrible," said Therese. "I will show you the figure of a man who threatens," said Mesmer, assuming an angry air, clinching his fists, and advancing a few paces. Therese fell upon her knees with a cry. "You will kill me!" exclaimed she, cowering to the floor.
Dan applied his eye to the opening and in surprised tones exclaimed, "By God, it IS Jim." He again looked and clinching his fist pounded on the door. "Jim! Jim!" he cried. "They got you at " "Here, none of that," said the bailiff in a gruff tone. "None of that, I say," and taking Dan by the arm he marched him back to the office. "You see, Mr. Moriarity, I told the truth," said Mr.
Instead of clinching, they stood apart and cudgelled fiercely with the knuckled hand. The first round ended in blood, which John wiped from his face with a new bandanna, and Owen flung contemptuously from his nose with finger and thumb.
Wegg, who was all for clinching the nail he had so strongly driven home, announced that Boffin should see it without an hour's delay.
"Darry," smiled Dick, "I wish to present my friend, Mr. Tag Mosher." "What?" gasped Darrin. "This Tag Mosher. By Jove, it is, it? How on earth did you make him wait for us?" Then, all in a flying heap Dave projected himself against young Mosher, clinching with him and bearing him down to the ground. In order to make doubly sure Greg joined in the assault.
The Arts Course; clinching it into our system; purchase of the Anthon Library; charges against us on this score; our vindication. The courses in literature, science and philosophy; influence of one of Herbert Spencer's ideas upon the formation of all these; influence of my own experience.
Once he called her attention to the returning strength in his arm. "The ould man is not dead yet," he exulted, lifting his disabled arm and clinching his fist. "I feel younger than at any time since me accident," and as he spoke she perceived something of the lion in the light of his eyes. One night as she was passing his chair he reached for her and caught her and drew her down upon his knee.
"They hung him in San Bernardino last week," added Ferguson, clinching the matter, "whilst he was searching around after you. Mistook him for another man. They're sorry, but they can't help it now." "They're a-building him a monument," said Ham Sandwich, with the air of a person who had contributed to it, and knew.
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