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"Vivvy wouldn't stand a ghost of a chance with you, take it from me." He stopped abruptly at the doorway, a frown of recollection creasing his seamless brow. "Oh, that reminds me, there is something else I want to discuss with you, Sara. After luncheon will be time enough. Remind me of it, will you?" "Not if it is to be unpleasant," she replied, with a sudden chill in her heart.
He could look up at the gallery without turning his head, and sometimes he caught her momentary glance, and again, with her chin in her hand, she was watching Mr. Crewe with a little smile creasing the corners of her eyes. A horrible thought crossed Austen's mind perhaps they were not his violets after all!
Swope's bullet plowed through her mass of hair, creasing her so lightly the skin was unbroken, though the impact knocked her down. I was almost the only man on the ship who bore no marks of that fight, though I was a sight from the beating, and Lynch or perhaps it was Newman made me bo'sun of the deck in the labor of bringing order out of chaos.
I love you so much that I must have loved you all the time without knowing it. I feel as if there was something in you that I could rest on and know that it will never give way." "And that's exactly how I feel about you," said Jim. Two swans sailed out into the middle of the lake, creasing the still water into tiny ripples.
Good lack, if I see a boy make to do about the fit of his crumpler, and the creasing of his breeches, and desire to be shod for comeliness rather than for use, I cannot 'scape the mark that God took thought to make a girl of him.
But necessarily such shots are made from a distance, and little short of a miracle is needed to make the bullet strike true for a fraction of an inch too low means death. So another laugh of appreciation ran around the barroom at the mention of creasing. "No," answered Barry, "I went out with a halter and after a while Satan got used to me and followed me home."
It was wrong of Olga to tell you above all" his face creasing with anxiety as the ruling passion asserted itself irrepressibly "to tell you on a day when you haf to sing!" "I made her," answered Diana listlessly. She passed her hand wearily across her forehead. "Don't worry, Maestro, I shall be able to sing to-night." "Tiens! But you are all to pieces, my child!
Indeed, he was irresistibly funny as he stood hot and ill at ease. The Sunday coat bore witness to his increasing portliness by creasing across from the buttons; his face, fleshy and perspiring, showed purple veins, and the little eyes receded comically, like a pig's. "Well, I've been thinking serious of late about getting married," he continued, slashing the rose bushes with his stick.
Accordingly, down we sat together on the hearthrug, and for some time there was no sound but the creasing of bills and the jingling of guineas, broken occasionally by the exulting exclamations of Rowley. The arithmetical operation on which we were embarked took long, and it might have been tedious to others; not to me nor to my helper. "Ten thousand pounds!" I announced at last.
It was a tantalising sight to Hendrik, who would have liked much to have shown his marksman skill by "creasing" one.