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You'll scarcely need to lift your little finger and they'll come flocking round you. I don't think" looking at her speculatively "that you've any conception what your voice is going to do for you. You see, it isn't just an ordinary good voice it's one of the exceptional voices that are only vouchsafed once or twice in a century." "Still, I think I should like to have a few friends now.
In the silence considered proper to the serious business of eating, each dipped index and second finger into the bowl, and neatly conveyed a portion of the sticky mass to his mouth, returning the fingers to the bowl cleansed of the last particle.
His terms were, that either the aforesaid ground-rent, from the day when the cellar began to be dug, should be paid down, or the mansion itself given up; else he, the ghostly creditor, would have his finger in all the affairs of the Pyncheons, and make everything go wrong with them, though it should be a thousand years after his death.
'Yuruk, I told him, 'that's what you'll get, and worse, if you lay a finger on that girl inside there." "And then what happened?" I asked. "He beat it back there." He grinned, pointing toward the forest through which ran the path the eunuch had shown me. "Probably hiding back of a tree."
They built a wooden edifice for worship in 1677, on the spot where the brick "Swedes' Church" now stands, and which was erected in 1700. Threading narrow streets, with the stenographic reporter of the courts, Mr. R. A. West, for my guide, we came into a quiet locality where the ancient landmark reared its steeple, like the finger of faith pointing heavenward.
My wedding ring, guarded by my engagement solitaire, was upon the third finger of my left hand. Jack would be sure to see them if I kept them on. I told myself fiercely that I did not wish Jack to know I was married until after we had had this dinner together. With my experience of Dicky's jealousy I had not much hope that Jack and I would ever dine together in this fashion again.
Put your finger on any line you please, Pallas said to him, and you will see represented actually in all its detail that which the line broadly indicates. He obeyed, and he saw coming into view all the characteristics of a portion of the life of that Sextus.
'Why, that, my Lord, I can't so well say, being that I was not with him; more's the pity, or I'd have known the reason why, or even they laid a finger on him. But when Master Landry, his French foster-brother, comes, he will resolve you in his own tongue. I can't parleyvoo with him, but he's an honest rogue for a Frenchman, and 'twas he brought off my young Lord.
The masterly woman pressed her face between the rails; stretched a snapping finger and thumb; in an intense voice murmured, "Tweetikins puss!" Tweetikins puss continued thoughtfully to turn the soil. This was a nicely mannered cat. "Tweety little puss!" cooed Mrs. Major. "Tweety pussikins! puss, puss!" Tweety pussikins turned to regard her. Mrs.
You come and make dawak" Ginalingan said, "Even though I should go to make dawak we could do nothing, for Kabkabaga-an, who lives in the air, loves him." "We must try and see if Kabkabaga-an will stop," said Indiápan, and Ginalingan went with them. As soon as they arrived in Kadalayapan Aponibolinayen said to Ginalingan, "What is best for us to do for Aponitolau's finger?"
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