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Updated: June 2, 2025
Twenty women and girls, their lips going as rapidly as their knives, sat on fruit crates at long tables, slicing the red-and-gold balls apart, flicking out the stones, laying the halves to dry in wooden trays. A wagon had just arrived from the orchard. Olsen, the Swedish foreman, was heaving the boxes to his Portuguese assistant, who passed them on into the cutting shed.
Her eyes went, incredulously, up to the spring-board. It seemed impossible... and all that distance above the water.... Her gaze was drawn to the flicking of the curtain of one of the little compartments lining the gallery. "Hullo, Hendy, let me get into my cubicle." Gertrude stood before her dripping and smiling.
'Get in, Bazarov brought out through his teeth. Sitnikov, who had been walking to and fro round the wheels of his carriage, whistling briskly, could only gape when he heard these words; while Arkady coolly pulled his luggage out of the carriage, took his seat beside Bazarov, and bowing politely to his former fellow-traveller, he called, 'Whip up! The coach rolled away, and was soon out of sight.... Sitnikov, utterly confused, looked at his coachman, but the latter was flicking his whip about the tail of the off horse.
The Hottentot with the reins was now bent like a bow all the time, keeping the cattle from flowing diverse over precipices, and the Kafir with his kambok was here, and there, and everywhere, his whip flicking like a lancet, and cracking like a horse-pistol, and the pair vied like Apollo and Pan, not which could sing sweetest, but swear loudest.
Visions floated before him of increased respect paid him by the men, and even by his uncle, when he should have demonstrated his ability to manage something better than old Brown Betty, flicking at the flies in her corner of the yard, with down-drooped head, and then he wanted to ride Bobs; and all his life Cecil Linton had done what he wanted.
He laughed crisply. "Have we?" said he. "I guess not not unless you have lost the trunk check the porter gave you." "What, this brass thing?" I demanded, taking the check from my pocket and flicking it in the air like a penny. "That very brass thing," said Holmes. "You haven't lifted that damned rope and put it in my trunk!" I roared. "Hush, Jenkins! For Heaven's sake don't make a scene.
"Then I suppose he's to be foreman?" he said, flicking at Pelle with his whip. "Yes, he certainly will be some day," said Lasse, with conviction. "He'll probably eat a few bushels of salt first. Well, I'm in want of a herdsman, and will give you a hundred krones for a year although it'll be confounded hard for you to earn them from what I can see.
"Indeed, waiter?" said I, feeling quite proud of his thus speaking to me as if I were a grown-up person. "But who was this gentleman, old Fitz what did you call him?" "Old Sir Titus Fitzblazes, sir," glibly replied the coffee-room factotum, flicking off a fly as he spoke from the table-cloth whereon he had just arranged all the paraphernalia of our breakfast.
She stood flicking her whip at the window, gazing out over the trees, down the slope to the river. Miss Russell might have interpreted these things. Simple Anne! "Why isn't he coming?" said Virginia, at last. "Because he is to be one of the speakers at a big meeting that night. Have you seen him since you got home, Jinny? He is thinner than he was.
I never knew what she married him for, and I don't believe anyone else ever did!" "I did, for one," said Miss Vanderwall, flicking the ashes from her cigarette with a well-groomed fingertip. "Clarence Breckenridge never was in love but once in his life no, I don't mean with Paula. I mean with Billy."
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