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He nodded, breathless, evidently proud of his feat, and when he caught his breath enough to speak, explained, "Yepp, it's the only place in this bum town where you can get Alligretti's, and they're the only kind that're fit to eat" He tore open the box as he spoke, demolishing with ruthless and practised hands the various layers of fine paper and gold cord which wrapped it about, and presented the rich layer of black chocolates to Sylvia.
Weldon and her companions experienced a painful impression. It was there that they had lived for long days, there that they had suffered. The aspect of that poor ship, half broken, having neither mast nor sails, lying on her side like a being deprived of life, sadly grieved their hearts. But they must visit this hull, before the sea should come to finish demolishing it.
The esteem he conceived for her, joined to his friendship, induced him to crown her Czarina, and to consult her upon all his affairs and all his schemes. Escaped from danger, he was a long time without giving up Azof, or demolishing his forts on the Black Sea.
How the tanks attacked A tank walking up the main Street of a village Effect on the Germans Prussian colonel surrenders to a tank Tanks against trees The tank in High Wood The famous Crème de Menthe Demolishing a sugar factory Germans take the tanks seriously Differences of opinion regarding tanks Wandering tanks German attack on a stranded tank Prehistoric turtles Saving twenty-five thousand casualties.
After this Politorium was taken a second time by force of arms, because the ancient Latins had taken possession of it when vacated. This was the cause of the Romans demolishing that city, that it might not ever after serve as a receptacle to the enemy.
"'Now you 've done it, cried Sally, as Mary scratched like a mad rat, and a door creaked below, for Miss Cotton was not deaf. "Such a flurry as we were in! Out went the candle, and each one rushed away with as much of the feast as she could seize in her haste. Sally dived into her bed, recklessly demolishing the last pie, and scattering the candy far and wide.
And then she said aloud, suddenly: "I am not happy very." She could not well have regarded that as a Parthian shot, a demolishing rebuke. Nevertheless, she turned upon it, precipitately, and went away down the steps. These events took place, in the course of ten minutes upon a doorstep, on the 31st of January.
After demolishing the chicken rack and loading our wagon with a lot of boxes and barrels, we started on our hunt for eggs. We soon learned that by driving several miles away to small villages, we could buy them from country merchants for twelve cents per dozen. We bought over three hundred dozen and started back with only one dollar in cash left to defray expenses.
The silence of their batteries proves the truth of what has been told us, that their powder is exhausted. They have no longer the means of demolishing our walls, and if they remain much longer the autumnal rains will interrupt their convoys and fill their camp with famine and disease.
It is extremely easy to pull down a house, but it requires skill and special training to rebuild it again; and before dragging the roof off and demolishing the walls, it would be wiser to have made a distinct plan and provided the materials ready for the reconstruction of a new habitation, that the rain and the wind may not overcome us when we have no shelter for our heads.
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