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She laughed and understood, but Deppingham was half way out to the yacht before it became clear to him that the Enemy hoped literally, not figuratively. The Enemy sauntered back toward the town, past and through the staring crowd of women. Here and there in the curious throng the face of a Persian or an Egyptian stared at him from among the brown Arabians.

Figuratively speaking, I looked at my hands as astonished as I had been when the poor little rascal in the street snatched my cake, and gave me the vision of him gorging it in the flurried alley of the London crowd. 'Money goes, I remarked.

A frail, tea-colored lady appeared, displaying such a small proportion of woman to such a large proportion of purple and fine linen, that she looked as if she was literally as well as figuratively "dressed to death." Christie went to the point in a business-like manner that seemed to suit Mrs.

And yet it is true, and I have only to lift my eyes to realize fully that I am really in the flowery kingdom. The plum blossoms are in full bloom and the roses too, while a thick frost makes everything sparkling white in the sunshine. The mountains have put on a thin blue veil trimmed in silver, and over all is a turquoise sky. And best of all, everybody I speak figuratively is happy.

I had thought he was better than most of them, and now he turns on me like this." "It's a way worms have," said Hester. "Oh, don't run a simile to death, Hester," said Mr. Gresley, impatiently. "If you had listened to what I tried to say this morning you would have seen I only used the word worm figuratively.

Since his electrical appointment he had become, figuratively speaking, an indiarubber ball a sort of human "squash." His heart bounded; his feet bounded; if his head had fallen off, it also would have bounded, no doubt. On arriving he found his father's elder brother a retired sea-captain of the merchant service on a visit to the family.

Literally and figuratively shaking the dust of the Mixe towns from our feet, we now descended into the Zapotec country. We were oppressed by a cramped, smothered feeling as we descended from the land of forested mountains and beautiful streams. At evening we reached San Miguel, the first Zapotec settlement, a little group of houses amid coffee plantings.

As they walked home, father and sons felt as if they had recently held familiar converse with a ghost or an evil spirit. But that feeling passed away when they were all seated at tea in the snug parlour, relating and listening to the adventure; and Jacky swelled to double his size, figuratively, on finding himself invested with sudden and singular importance as the darling of an "old witch."

Even as the smaller whirlpool is sucked into the larger, and made to whirl along with it, so has the lesser mind, in this instance, been forced to become portion of the greater, and, like it, see all things figuratively: which habit time and assiduous effort will be needed to eradicate.

"I said 'chuck." "I distinctly heard you use the word 'throw," said Uncle George, very red in the face. "It was on the second occasion, George," said Mrs. Wrandall, loyal to Leslie. "In either case," said her son, "we'd be made ridiculous. That's the long and short of it. Even if she HANDED it to us on a silver plate, figuratively speaking, Uncle George, we'd be made to look like thirty cents."