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The little tent was lined with tar paper which had no glaze and was of an intense black, expelling all white rays which might be injurious to his exposed plates, the red rays not doing this. When his plates were dry Billy put one of them in his frame, which contained a sheet of plain glass, and slipped one of his sensitized sheets under it, closing the frame with a cleat under the back.
The old occupation, the monotonous, restful miles of road sweeping back under the wheels, the pleasant, casual detachment of the passengers, the pride of accomplishment, irresistibly appealed to him. Valentine Simmons' rheumy eyes interrogated him doubtfully above the fixed, dry color of his fallen cheeks. "By God, Valentine!" Gordon exclaimed, "I'll do it, I'll drive her, and right, too.
"The best conjecture seems to be that the dry twigs, straw, and similar débris, carried into the roof by birds, and which it has been the custom to clear at intervals out of the vault pockets, had caught fire from a spark that had in some way passed through the roof covering, perhaps under a sheet raised a little at the bottom by the wind."
You, and your uncle, and attendants, if there were fifty of them, are welcome to my abode. Go and bring them hither; and as soon as my servant comes down with my dry clothes, I will accompany you."
It is short and probably correct." "Was Paul not with them?" his mother questioned in a hard, dry voice. "Where is he then?" "He is in camp, madam, in charge of the wounded." "Dear father! if you would speak plain!" Moya whispered nervously. "Certainly. There is nothing whatever to hide. We know now that on their last day's hunt they met with an accident which resulted in a division of the party.
In landscapes the eye is caught by colors. And is there not a good deal of landscape about geography? It appears that this desert was formerly occupied by a huge central basin. It has dried up, as the Caspian will dry up, and this evaporation is explained by the powerful concentration of the solar rays on the surface of the territories between the Sea of Aral and the Plateau of the Pamir.
The log was laid in a little cement bed which, when the battery started, was not quite dry. The effect was comical to every one but the unfortunate owners. It was certainly the liveliest, but at the same time one of the most ineffective batteries I have seen.
A rope was soon made fast to the tiger's neck, and Moota Gutche hauled it upon dry ground, where it was washed as well as possible, and well scrutinized for a bullet-hole. There was no hole whatever in that tiger. The bullet having entered the nostril, broken the neck, and run along the body, the animal consequently had never moved.
If we stay here much longer Margery'll get so dry from talking that we'll have to go and get her some more water." "Let's go up the path and get on the bluff again," said Bessie. "I like it up there, because you seem to be able to see further out to sea than you can here." "All right. I don't care where we go, anyhow, and it is more interesting up there than on the beach, I think."
The traveller shook himself like a Newfoundland dog, and said it was, rather. 'There's a fire in the kitchen, said Mrs Lupin, 'and very good company there. Hadn't you better go and dry yourself? 'No, thankee, said the man, glancing towards the kitchen as he spoke; he seemed to know the way. 'It's enough to give you your death of cold, observed the hostess.
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