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There it is spread out straight before him, and the muscles on his arms have you ever noticed the fellow's muscles? tell him that he is equal to it. Do you ever see him pacing distractedly about, wondering if the mood will come to him? Do you ever see him sitting dejectedly twiddling his axe, and rendered quite incapable because he has been interrupted at a critical time and put out of vein?

Eli professed to be greatly disappointed, for he remarked dejectedly: "Thought I might get a chance to try your gun, and I had just made up my mind like which leg I'd pepper if he tried to sneak anything away.

Nivel the whole of the incident of the shooting of the beater by the Duke of Rittersheim. "Well, that's the limit," commented Jack, taking the cigar out of his mouth; "he must be a cool-headed scoundrel. I never heard of such nerve!" "It's a nice thing to have a brute like that on one's track, isn't it?" I remarked dejectedly; "it makes life hardly worth living."

She seemed as cold and distant to him as the stars at which she gazed, and he thought dejectedly, "The least of them have an interest for her greater than I shall ever be able to inspire."

"Guess he'll hang on to me pretty tight this time," he muttered. A moment later he found himself back in the same room the three had been locked in when first brought to the house. The lad threw himself down dejectedly when the captor left the room and locked the door behind him. "Well, I'm in for it now," he told himself.

But the house was not the only thing they saw. In the street before the house stood a row of vehicles. One electric runabout, hooded and luxurious; two "buggies," of the village type, drawn by single horses standing dejectedly with drooping ears and tails; one farmer's wagon, filled with boxes and barrels, its horses hitched to Burns's post by a rope: this was the assemblage.

The world is upside down a world without light, or pointing finger, or affection for special favourites, and therefore bereft of all mysterious and attractive wisdom, a crazy world, a corpse of a world if this be true! But it can still be disbelieved. He stood by her dejectedly, and she sent him flying with a repulsive, 'Leave me! The youth had too much on his conscience to let him linger.

She began crying again, while I walked to the piano and sat down. "What are we waiting for?" I asked dejectedly. "It's two o'clock." "I am not waiting for anything," she said. "I am utterly lost." "Why do you talk like that? We had better consider together what we are to do. Neither you nor I can stay here. Where do you intend to go?" Suddenly there was a ring at the bell. My heart stood still.

She clutched them feverishly and turned to deliver them to their owner. He was nowhere to be seen. She broke through the ring, and with her hands full of gold scanned the room in dismayed perplexity. At last she espied him standing dejectedly by another table. She rushed across the intervening space and held out the money. "See, you have won!"

"I hated the thought of it," he answered dejectedly. "You've listened to their side of the story. You're a splendid son, you are!" sneered the father. "There is nothing base and unprincipled in their side of the story. They have tried to shield her; they have never harmed her. But you! Why, father, you've blighted her life forever.