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We gather here about a warm fireside, with the historic yule log blazing er figuratively speaking, of course. These logs, naturally, are not historic. They er ahem! Ahem!" He floundered. "Still, we gather about them, just the same, warm and snug and full of good cheer. Outside, the night is cold and blustery. The wind howls around the " The door-bell jangled in the distance. Mr.
His relay of candles served him in good stead; nevertheless, despite their light and his own caution, he more than once narrowly missed dashing out his brains on the low roof. On came the water after the fugitive, a mighty, hissing, vaulting torrent, filling the level behind, and leaping up on the man higher and higher as he struggled and floundered on for life.
"So taken all in all," he drawled still beamingly, "there's nothing in the world at this particular moment, Mr. Barton that could amuse me more than to have you join my daughter in her ride this afternoon!" "Ride with me?" gasped little Eve Edgarton. "This afternoon?" floundered Barton. "Oh why yes of course! I'd be delighted! I'd be be! Only ! Only I'm afraid that !"
Dorothy was a little anxious about the success of their trip, for the way Jim arched his long neck and spread out his bony legs as he fluttered and floundered through the air was enough to make anybody nervous.
As we stumbled through the muddy desolation I beheld wretched hovels wherein khaki-clad forms moved, and from one of these damp and dismal structures a merry whistling issued, with hoarse laughter. On we tramped, through rain and mud, which, like my helmet, seemed to grow momentarily heavier. "K.," said I, as he floundered into a shell hole, "about how heavy did you say these helmets were?"
The ferry had been coming in on a perfectly normal approach when the tiny something went wrong, in the ship or in the judgment of the pilot. Its drive-rockets suddenly blasted on full, it heeled over sharply, it smashed through the big starboard spoke like a knife through butter. Wheel Five staggered, rocked, and floundered.
"I've never regretted being married never once!" "There, there, now!" "And it's only ... I mean ... this is the best we can afford in the meantime, and if I am satisfied ..." floundered Polly, dismayed to hear her words construed into blame of her husband.
"They're far worse stuck than we are." "Oh, do look at him," said Frank, "Did you ever see anything so funny?" The man staggered to his feet and floundered towards the shore, squeezing the salt water from his eyes with his knuckles. "Of course, I'm sorry for the poor beast in a way," said Priscilla, "but I can't help feeling that it jolly well serves him right. Oh, look at them now!"
Hugging the boat to desperation, the poor fish fairly crowded themselves up to the surface, and floundered upon each other, as men are lifted off their feet in a mob. They clung to us thus, out of a fancied security in our presence.
Still the enormous beast floundered forward; up to that moment I had never realized how truly huge it was, not even when it stood over me in the moonlight about to crush me with its foot. Of this I am sure, that none to equal it ever lived in Africa, at least in any times of which I have knowledge. "Fire, Baas," whispered Hans, "it is near enough."
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