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Assemblyman Brown, head of the legislature's antiracketeering committee, intense concentration expressed in the forward push of his vigorous shoulders and the creased lines on his youthful forehead, asked if it were not true that the oil had been held up by a union jurisdictional dispute?
She leaned forward towards the world's governess, smiled at him, and said, half satirically, half confidentially: "Now what is it you have in the back of your mind?" Braybrooke was slightly taken aback. He coughed and half closed his eyes, then gently pulled up his perfectly creased trousers, taking hold of them just above the knees. "I really don't think " he began. "You and I are old friends.
Even the two Chinamen, mysteriously coming and going, had laughed at him like two heathen gods, and had vanished suddenly like heathen gods. A weakness came over him, and the skin of his face became creased and clammy like that of a drowned man; his limbs trembled, so desperate was his passion.
When Adah learned that Alice and I had actually bought a place at last she fairly wept for joy, and she excitedly produced her creased and worn copy of "The National Architect" and besought us to remodel the old Schmittheimer "rookery" that is what she dared to call it into a villa!
"It is here," he murmured. "What do you want?" "This." He drew forth a creased, yellowed, tattered, time-eaten paper. "It is the land grant to Sebastian Jalisco," he said. "Please for me tear it up now. I have kept it here all the time. Please destroy it, Señor Frank." Frank took the paper.
The door of the home was opened by a dark, untidy, dishevelled, uncapped, fat girl, with a full apron, dazzling white and rectangularly creased, that had obviously just been taken out of a drawer. Familiarly and amicably smiling, she led him into a small, modest drawing-room where were Lois and her father and mother. Lois was enigmatic and taciturn. Mr. and Mrs.
"Here we are," she heard the guide's voice in a shout. The stage stopped, and Stella heard a rush of feet. "Got her?" some one demanded gruffly. "Yep, but she's all in," replied the guide. "Her forehead was creased by a bullet, an' the trip has about finished her." "Can't help that. Get her out. We've got to be moving. The soldiers are out to-night." "What's the matter?" "Injuns.". "Uprisin'?"
How she pored over that letter, and folded it so that even the candle-droppings would not be creased and fall away! He was happy, though wretched because he could not see her. It was the life he had longed for. He was no longer the mere idler whom she had chidden. "Jinny, do you remember saying so many years ago that our ruin would come of our not being able to work?
Dooley, "I didn't vote f'r Mack, but I'm with him now. I had me doubts whether he was th' gr-reatest military janius iv th' cinchry, but they'se no question about it. We go into this war, if we iver do go into it, with th' most fash'n-able ar-rmy that iver creased its pants. 'Twill be a daily hint fr'm Paris to th' crool foe.
"Did you go over to him to see if he was finished, or just creased?" "I never creased a man in my life!" Thorn was indignant over the imputation. Chadron shook his head, in doubt, in discredit, in gloomy disbelief. "If you didn't go up to him and turn him over and look at the whites of his eyes, you ain't sure," he protested.
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