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He gasped, and gulped, and swallowed some water with more haste than grace. Then he toyed idly with spoon and wafer until Prudence tasted also. Prudence did not gasp. She did not cry out. She looked up at her sister with wide hurt eyes, a world of pathos in the glance. But Fairy did not notice.
"One man missin', suh." "You were unable to hear any news of him?" "No, suh." The old weariness settled back on him. They had hunted first Croff and Webb and then he, too, as soon as he was able to sit a saddle. It was Weatherby's fate all over again; the ground might have opened and gulped Kirby down. "How old are you, Sergeant?"
As he arrived at the top of steps, Collison announced: "It's all right. She's coming to." Supported in the arms of the second mate, Liane was beginning to breathe deeply and looking round with dazed eyes. Lanyard dropped on a knee and set the glass to her lips. She gulped twice, mechanically, her gaze fixed to his face.
Our visitor, without ceremony, poured out for himself half a tumbler of rum, to which he added a very small quantity of water. "I like a nip neat at this time of the morning," he observed, as he gulped it down. "It sets a fellow up. Well, as you have got ladies aboard, I won't trouble you with my company any longer," he added, taking another look round the deck.
Hand in hand they ran to the north end of the swamp, yelling "We got it!" like young Comanches, and never gave a thought to what they might do until a big blue-gray bird, with long neck and trailing legs, arose on flapping wings and sailed over the Limberlost. The Angel became white to the lips and gripped Freckles with both hands. He gulped with mortification and turned his back.
He kept his head bowed and his hands clutched upon the rail; his hair dropped in his eyes and at times he flung it back; and now he glanced about the audience in a sudden fellness of terror, and now looked in the face of his judge and gulped. There was pinned about his throat a piece of dingy flannel; and this it was perhaps that turned the scale in Archie's mind between disgust and pity.
But survival was more important than fastidiousness, so he gulped the evil stuff down. Breakfast over they marched out the gate into another compound and fascinated interest displaced all of Jason's concerns. In the center of the yard was a large capstan into which the first group of slaves were already fitting the end of their bar.
Don't you hurry me off in this fashion unless there's something to it." "Told you express shed robbers!" "Robbers? You mean some one is stealing something there?" "Yes!" gulped Bart's companion. "Who is it?" "Don't know." "Why didn't you stop them?" "I don't dare do anything," the man wailed. "I'm a poor, miserable object, but I'm your friend.
"Are you going to drink those two bottles?" Laigle inquired of Grantaire. Grantaire replied: "All are ingenious, thou alone art ingenuous. Two bottles never yet astonished a man." The others had begun by eating, Grantaire began by drinking. Half a bottle was rapidly gulped down. "So you have a hole in your stomach?" began Laigle again. "You have one in your elbow," said Grantaire.
Near her somebody's clear voice said nervously: "Comrades, friends, the autocracy, the monster which devours the Russian people to-day again gulped into its bottomless, greedy mouth " "However, mother, let's go," said Sizov. And at the same time Sasha appeared, caught the mother under her arm, and quickly dragged her away to the other side of the street. "Come! They're going to make arrests. What?
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