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Edwards with the warmest expressions of gratitude; and finished by declaring he would sooner forfeit his life than rebel against such a master. He conjured Hector to desist from executing his designs; but all was in vain. Hector sat with his elbows fixed upon his knees, leaning his head upon his hands, in gloomy silence.
Vandover grew in a haphazard way and after school hours ran about the streets almost at will. At fifteen he put on long trousers, and the fall of the same year entered the High School. He had grown too fast and at this time was tall and very lean; his limbs were straight, angular, out of all proportion, with huge articulations at the elbows and knees.
It looked like a very nice pond indeed, long, and large, and well banked up, not made into any particular shape, but producing little rushy elbows. Then many other things made a dart away, and furrowed the shadow of the willows, till distance quieted the fear of man that most mysterious thing in nature and the shallow pool was at peace again, and bright with unruffled reflections.
But just then old Ku-Klip the Tinsmith arrived, and he seemed surprised to find so many visitors. Ku-Klip was a stout man and a short man. He had his sleeves rolled above his elbows, showing muscular arms, and he wore a leathern apron that covered all the front of him, and was so long that Woot was surprised he didn't step on it and trip whenever he walked.
Foma, his elbows leaning on the table, attentively listened to his father, and under the sound of his powerful voice he pictured to himself now the carpenter squaring a beam, now himself, his hands outstretched, carefully and stealthily approaching some colossal and living thing, and desiring to grasp that terrible something.
His appearance, indeed as he stood amongst a miscellaneous assortment of sun-bleached and weather-stained foreshore lumber, leaning the ragged elbows of his blue jersey upon the top of an empty petroleum barrel and smoking a dirty clay pipe was so far from inviting, that the young girl felt tempted to relinquish her enterprise and go back by the way she had come.
The two brothers for that is the high relationship achieved sometimes in America, and in America alone, between father and son thrust their new straw hats upon the backs of their round heads, humped themselves forward, and rested with their elbows on their knees and watched no, that is your foreigner's attitude toward a contest they played the game.
Jeddler's daughters? said Snitchey, suddenly squaring his elbows on his knees, and advancing his face at least a yard. 'Yes! returned the client. 'Not his younger daughter? said Snitchey. 'Yes! returned the client. 'Mr. Craggs, said Snitchey, much relieved, 'will you oblige me with another pinch of snuff? Thank you! I am happy to say it don't signify, Mr.
Piper, flourishing the poker; "I mean you, Susy the parlor isn't any place for hired girls." "Ma'am?" said Susy, inclining her head to one side, in order to hear better. "O, dear! the plague of having a deaf girl!" moaned Mrs. Piper. "You don't know how trying it is, Mrs. Shotwell! That hired girl, Betsey, hears with her elbows, Mrs. Shotwell; I verily believe she does!"
The heat of the cell was extreme: the prisoner leaned his elbows on the ledge of the grating which admitted to the cell what light there was, and fell into a deep and bitter reverie. Eight hours passed, and then the complete solitude in which he was left began to trouble him. Another hour, another, and another; but when night really fell, to take Casanova's own account,
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