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They say this is the worst kind of all, and on making inquiry I was told that the safest way to enjoy a dip here is to bathe with a number of other people. The splashing and noise made by a whole ship's company frighten the sharks away. This discovery puts an end therefore to our hopes of enjoying an occasional peaceful bath. We went to eleven o'clock service at the cathedral.
I shall seek the truth of this strange affair courageously; but you must permit me to doubt everything until the evidence of the facts you state is proved to me. In any case you shall have satisfaction, for, as you will certainly understand, we both require it." Jules returned home. "What is the matter, Jules?" asked his wife, when she saw him. "You look so pale you frighten me!"
Le Gros thus singularly gave her up to my control; the main-yard lying square. My first step was to fill the top-sail, and gather way on the vessel. This was soon done; and, keeping away, I stood on towards the rocks, which soon bore on our weather bow, determined to run as near them as I dared, thinking to frighten the Englishman so much, as to induce him to keep at arm's-length.
Greatrex, and there I heard a German refugee fellow from London a white-haired man of the name of Schurts, or something of the sort' Mr. Blenkinsopp pronounced it to rhyme with 'hurts' 'who was declaiming away in a fashion to make your hair stand on end, and frighten you half out of your wits with his dreadful communistic notions. I assure you, he positively took my breath away.
But I can report to you with genuine pride on what has been accomplished in 1942. A year ago we set certain production goals for 1942 and for 1943. Some people, including some experts, thought that we had pulled some big figures out of a hat just to frighten the Axis. But we had confidence in the ability of our people to establish new records. And that confidence has been justified.
Her costume, brilliant enough in hue to frighten a cab horse, was extremely eccentric in cut; but it certainly set off her peculiar style of beauty to admirable advantage. "That's the baroness," whispered the servant, after she had passed. Pascal did not need to be told this.
Had he said, "Why not go on writing," it is very probable he would have scared me away from pen and ink for ever; but there was nothing either to frighten one or arouse one's antagonism in the mere suggestion to "write another." And thus a dead point in the revolution of my affairs was insidiously got over. The word "another" did it.
She sprang forward, throwing herself against the door as she locked it. "Don't," she cried through it "don't you ever dare do that again, Harry! Walk on your heels. You frighten me when you sneak like that you you frighten me." Then she undressed, crying, tears rolling down to her high white chest and finally on to the crispiness of her plain nightgown.
Then, if they weren't very careful, they'd frighten the Newcastle man away, while I might, so to speak, catch him off his guard." "It sounds plausible; but I think you have a better reason." "If I have, it's to some extent temperamental; a natural reaction after leading a sober life," Foster said humorously.
"You always look odd, and speak in a short, snappy way when I talk of my mother." "I like and admire her immensely," he answered, in that remote tone which tries to frighten me, and does almost but not quite. "All the same, I don't think you'll find Carlyle in her library, so you'll have to let me give him to you.
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