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Train hands were running hither and thither, porters were loudly calling the names of the hotels to which they were attached, the inevitable Jehu was there with his nasal ejaculation of "Kerige!" while trunks were unloaded and passengers were disembarking.

Accordingly, about two quarts of water were measured into a large Turkish copper basin; the tent, although the heat was unendurable, was the only dressing-room, and the two quarts of water, with a due proportion of soap, having washed two people, was about to be thrown away, when the Arab guide, who had been waiting his opportunity, snatched the basin from the servant, and in the agony of thirst drank nearly the whole of its contents, handing the residue to a brother Arab, with the hearty ejaculation, "El hambd el Illah!"

'It was found by Mother Jael near the spot where Jentham was murdered. Captain Pendle clapped down the pistol on the table with an ejaculation of amazement. 'Was he shot with this, Harry? 'Without doubt! replied Brace, gravely. 'Therefore, as it is your property, I wish to know how it came to be used for that purpose. 'Great Scott, Brace! you don't think that I killed the blackguard?

"There's not a sowl in the boat or near it, sorr, at all, at all, cap'en dear, barrin' the pigs sure, as I towld ye," he repeated on getting so far; and he was just proceeding to lower himself down to the top of the deck-house by a loose rope that was hanging from aloft, when he swung himself back into the rigging in alarm as a dark body jumped out of the long-boat right across his face, uttering the terrified ejaculation, "Murther in Irish!

But from each in turn he drew back, occasionally followed by a muttered oath or a sharp ejaculation. "I bet he'll be somewhere by the Serpentine," the boy said to Hindford. And they walked on till at length they reached the black sheet of water closely muffled in the night. "We met him somewhere just here," Horace said. "I know," Hindford rejoined. "He got up from this seat.

It is a wife's duty to submit to whatever cross Providence lays upon her, but divorce seems to me only the resource of abandoned women." The Commissioner's wife nodded her head in majestic approval. The Commissioner got up abruptly, breakfast being concluded. He said nothing, but his mental ejaculation was, "Old hag! knows she couldn't get any one else, nor half such a handsome allowance!"

And she'll be able." Touch by touch her meditation had completed it, but with a cumulative effect for her husband's general sense of her method that caused him to overflow, whimsically enough, in his corner, into an ejaculation now frequent on his lips for the relief that, especially in communion like the present, it gave him, and that Fanny had critically traced to the quaint example, the aboriginal homeliness, still so delightful, of Mr.

He did not hear the man's ejaculation of surprise as his eyes fell on the face of the master who stood before him with hair white as snow so utterly changed in one short hour. "You couldn't possibly make the next train, sir; it leaves in a few moments." "I tell you you must make it!" cried Basil Hurlhurst. "Go and do as I bid you at once!

It was the opinion of the village matrons who relieved Sampson on the latter occasion, 'that the Laird might as weel trust the care o' his bairn to a potatoe bogle'; but the good Dominie bore all his disasters with gravity and serenity equally imperturbable. 'Pro-di-gi-ous! was the only ejaculation they ever extorted from the much-enduring man.

"I hate everybody in the world but you.... Everybody but you, Lafe." "What'd you think might make a dress for 'er?" asked Grandoken presently. Before answering, Peg brought her feet together and looked down at her toes. "There's them lace curtains ma give me when she died," she said. "Them that's wrapped up in paper on the shelf." Lafe uttered a surprised ejaculation.