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I've something that will please you!" exclaimed the guardian. "What ith it?" demanded Tommy, edging near. "Coffee!" exclaimed Miss Elting triumphantly. "But how are we going to cook it?" cried Jane. "Get the coffee pot. It is in one of the packs that we saved. We have neither milk nor sugar, but we shan't care about that. I met a boy, as I have told you.
'Dear me! replied the iguana, politely, 'I was very nearly forgetting! Let me see I must try my voice first Do, re, me, fa, sol, la, si, that is right! Now, how does it run? 'Silver is his dais, plastered o'er with gold; In his ears are jewels, some prince I must behold! repeated the jackal, not observing that the lizard was carefully edging farther and farther away.
Although not an animal was visible, the rider had the contour of the herd so vividly impressed on his mind that he felt no misgiving, when he began edging his steed more to the left, and finally brought him to a stand-still, as he believed, at the very front of the collection. Indeed, his confidence would not have been greater had the sun been shining.
She wore a lace cap with pink ribbons, a mousseline-de-laine gown in pink and gray stripes with an edging of green, opened at the bottom to show a petticoat trimmed with valencienne lace; and a green cashmere shawl with palm-leaves, the point of which reached the ground as she walked. "You are not so hungry," she said, casting her eyes on Beauvisage, "that you can't wait half an hour?
While Quinet, the positive pole of our expedition, was ever edging our march towards his Bastille Column and his cut-throat Quartier Montmartre, I, the negative; drew it a little into more polished circles where wit and talent sparkled.
Neither of the two men who were visible to the rider had seen him neither of them had heard the big black horse gliding over the deep sand of the desert. The rider grinned with grim mirthlessness, edging Purgatory around so that the two men, their backs toward him, were not more than twenty or thirty feet away and entirely exposed to his view.
And the young giant, edging closer to the wall and blushing deeply, would answer, "Yessir trying." "Mind you do," said the Vicar, and would go past him with at most a slight acceleration of his breathing. And out of respect for his manhood he made it a rule, whatever he might fancy, never to look back at the danger, when once it was passed.
I'm just mad to know all those cunning tartans by heart." "The moment the service was over," continued my wife severely, "I saw her edging through the crowd in the churchyard towards the chieftain. For a moment I thought she was going to ask him his name." "I wasn't!" declared Miss Buncle indignantly. "No, you did worse.
It is the habit of the killer to look for easy game. Out of the corner of his eye the man who had betrayed 'Lindy Clanton saw that Hugh was edging back of the bar and dragging out his gun. This boy could be killed safely now, since they were two to one, both of them experts with the revolver. To let him escape would be to live in constant danger for the future. "He's askin' for it, Reb.
He threw over him his scarlet mantle, put on his head a montera of green velvet trimmed with silver edging, flung across his shoulder the baldric with his good trenchant sword, took up a large rosary that he always carried with him, and with great solemnity and precision of gait proceeded to the antechamber where the duke and duchess were already dressed and waiting for him.
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