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It was a sight I'll never forget women, shivering in ragged clothing, with babes in their arms and gaunt, unhappy faces and eyes that looked at you as if they were eternally asking something and afraid to ask! Most of them had some scrap of dingy crepe somewhere about them had lost their men at the battle-front! And little children gulping down the hot soup as though they were starved!
Phoebe looked at her, bewildered; then she removed her hand, and Carrie saw the telegram. She threw herself on it, read the address, gulping, then the words: 'A messenger! She understood that no more than her mother. It meant a letter, perhaps? But she fastened on 'immediately' 'welcome. And presently all in a moment she leapt to her feet, and began to dance and spring about the room.
And after Timéa had drawn them off, and held the snow-white foot, more perfect than a sculptor's ideal, in her lap, she bent and pressed a kiss on it. Athalie permitted that too. Lieutenant Katschuka went through the café and found Timar there gulping down a cup of black coffee.
Remember that a fair proportion of them were a few months ago adding up figures in the office of an insurance company or a shipping firm gulping down their midday coffee and roll in a teashop in King or Collins Streets.
For a moment nothing was to be seen but tumbled water, and then there came belching up from below, with immense gulping noises, eructations of steam and air and petrol and fragments of canvas and woodwork and men. That made a distinct pause in the fight. It seemed a long pause to Bert. He found himself looking for the drachenflieger.
The three rescue parties reached the squirming heap at almost the same moment. But Yuara was the one whose arrival counted most. In one last convulsive struggle McKay heaved himself up until he was once more on his knees. His head came out of the welter, his mouth wide and gulping for breath.
"Yes, you took that very well," he said, still meeting her eyes steadily. "Stop.... Keep a strong hold on yourself. That is the worst you have to hear, for the present. Now tell me immediately whether you think Mrs. Baxter should be informed or not." Her leaping heart slowed down into three or four gulping blows at the base of her throat. She swallowed with difficulty. "How do you know "
When any of the fishes give signs of sickness or suffocation, by coming to the surface and gulping air, they may be revived by having the water aerated by pouring it out repeatedly from a little elevation, or by a syringe. The fishes are sometimes distressed, also, when the room gets too warm for them. A temperature of 60° is about what they require.
He's old, and he has a right to the best we can do for him. Think of his loneliness! I shall certainly not let you send him away." Ewbert was excitedly gulping his second cup of tea; he pushed his chair back, and flung his napkin down as he added, "You can come in, too, and see that I get off alive."
A dingy handkerchief twisted like a cord about his neck, left its great veins exposed to view, and they were swollen and starting, as though with gulping down strong passions, malice, and ill-will.
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