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I weighed the matter in every conceivable way, and ended by trusting to the instinct which impelled me to have resource to the one and only means by which the scent might be diverted from its original course, confusion be sown in the minds of the police, and Carmel, as well as myself, be saved from the pit gaping to receive us. This was my plan.
Though he did not hear it, it poured emotion into the heated, dusty air. It painted the tawdry show with richer colours. It was the rider's invisible retinue. At a touch from her heel the horse danced to it, in perfect time, arching his great neck, and rolling his wild eyes. She was proud, too. Robert saw how she disdained the gaping multitude.
By the time the dishes were washed and put away, there was considerable gaping among the party. Cyd opened his mouth fearfully wide, and Miss Lily's eyelids drooped, like her fragrant namesake, when its mission on earth is nearly finished.
He had caught a suggestive look on Little's face, and an answering smile on Mrs. Goring's, that told him as plainly as words that his opportunity was thus given to him. So, while his heart burst with sentiment, and his arms ached to take Natalie in them, his tongue declined its office and left him a gaping, speechless sailor.
Sometimes there is a huge imitation of an alligator made of logs plastered over with earth and painted in stripes of different colours, a piece of wood cut open stuck in at one end as a gaping mouth. This alligator corroboree is generally indicative of a Boorah, or initiation ceremony, being near at hand. Sometimes the stage effects are high painted poles merely.
In her desperation she once more sprang to the window, shouted to the flying Macedonians to halt and make a stand threatening and entreating; but no one heard her, and their number constantly increased, till at length she saw her husband standing on the threshold of the great hall with a gaping wound on his forehead, and defending himself bravely and stoutly with buckler and sword against the body-guard of his own brother, who were pressing him sorely.
Orange. 'The dear things! How pleased they will be! 'I don't care for children myself, said Mr. Orange, gaping. 'Not for girls? said Mrs. Alicumpaine. 'Come! you care for girls? Mr. Orange shook his head, and gaped again. 'Frivolous and vain, ma'am. 'My dear James, cried Mrs. Orange, who had been peeping about, 'do look here.
At the present moment two steamer trunks stood gaping in the middle of the floor, tissue paper was scattered about on various chairs, the dressing-table was bare of silver, and a traveling bag displayed a row of gold bottle and brush tops. Nina threw her packages on a couch already littered with empty boxes, wrapping-paper, new books and various other articles.
“I was awakened from a deep dream by a heavy hand on my shoulder, and a loud voice in my ear. “‘Holloa! friend Lech.’ “‘What’s the matter?’ inquired I, gaping. “‘Get up, and I’ll tell you.’ “‘Who are you?’ “‘You’ll know that soon enough; I am a police officer.’ “‘And where am I, in God’s name?’ “‘Why, lying on your back, on the open Glacis.’ “That was pleasant, was it not?
The rich have invented judges and courts of law to secure their goods, and the guillotine that candle in which so many lie in silk, under silken coverlets, there is remorse, and grinding of teeth beneath a smile, and those fantastical lions' jaws are gaping to set their fangs in your heart." ""Protest the bill!
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