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The potters were on strike, and a Bursley contingent was returning in embittered silence from a mass meeting at Hanbridge. When the sound of the steam-car subsided, as the car dipped over the hill-top on its descent towards Hanbridge, nothing could be heard but the tramp-tramp of the procession on the road.
The boys dipped and soaked the bread in their coffee; and the wives started talking about their young days and about clothes and the old ways and the fine weather and the fruit-crop. Mother did nothing but cut fresh slices of bread-and-butter, which were snatched away and gobbled up on every side. "Eat away!" said father.
And even as she spoke the skiff, lurching first one side and then the other, sank slowly down into the depths of the river. Both girls screamed. They came together with a shock and clung to each other in something like panic. And, so struggling, both dipped under water for a moment. But when they came up, Nancy held her chum off, and cried: "Don't do that again, Jennie!
Charley grinned at the disappointment he saw in my face, and then shouted: "Stand by the main-sheet to jibe!" He put the wheel hard over, and the yacht whirled around obediently. The main-sheet slacked and dipped, then shot over our heads after the boom and tautened with a crash on the traveller.
Cheyenne, kneeling, threw the water from the cup as though he had discovered dirt in it, and dipped the cup again. Behind him he heard his horse moving restlessly. As Cheyenne raised the cup to drink, he half closed his eyes, and glancing sideways, caught a glimpse of a figure standing near the upper end of the spring fence.
A bird dipped his wing into it midway, and set a circle of wavelets tripping to the shore. One by one they died among the sedges, and there was no trace of them more.
I have drunk a little too much. I can't work well under such circumstances." He extinguished his light and fell asleep. He awoke early, and, rising, opened his window to inhale the fresh air. In a few moments he seated himself at his table, dipped his pen in the ink, rested his head upon his hand and thought but in vain!
Then Aunt Anne said: "Why, your bag, dear! The things are all about the place." Maggie bent down. When she looked up again they had dipped down on the other side of the hill. Maggie had only once in all her life been in a train, but on this present occasion she did not find it very thrilling.
On the further end of the table a gold pen was resting on a bronze ink-tray. Mrs. Varrick dipped the pen in the ink, and handed it to the girl. "Sign there," she said, indicating, with a very shaking finger, a line at the bottom.
Things were now as they used to be, and Pablo was satisfied. When he came out, Kay had gone in to dinner; so he returned to his own casa and squatted against the wall, with his glance fixed upon the point in the palm avenue where it dipped over the edge of the mesa. At seven o'clock, dinner being over, Kay excused herself to the family and Mr.
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