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Kinney, who began a hot protest, but it was immediately smothered. "All in favour of me being president instead of Fred Kinney," shouted Georgie, "say 'Aye. The 'Ayes' have it!" "I resign," said the red-headed boy, gulping as he descended from the platform. "I resign from the club!" Hot-eyed, he found his hat and departed, jeers echoing after him as he plunged down the corridor.
The pain made me give a convulsive wriggle and I scraped past the obstacle, tearing my hip badly in getting clear. From there on we wriggled frantically till I could see ahead a round patch of light at the lower outfall of the drain. It seemed an age before I reached the opening, but reach it I did. I lay there, my head just inside, panting and guzzling clean air in great gulping gasps.
She staggered up to them, panting, exhausted, her breath coming in gulping sobs. For a moment she could not speak. Her dress was torn; her waist was ripped so that it exposed her throat and shoulder; and the front of the waist and her face were stained with blood. Her black eyes shone like a madwoman's.
He was silent as she urged Billy onward. And as they fled southwestward, with Purgatory far behind, Harlan swept his hat from his head and bowed toward the mighty valley, saying lowly: "You're sure a hummer an' no mistake. But if a man had any poetry in his soul why " He rode on, gulping his delight over having accomplished what he had intended to accomplish.
He looked for a moment imploringly at Barber, but saw only a sneer on his countenance; so gulping down all the feelings which were rising in his bosom, and which, had he allowed them to break forth, would not have tended to harmony, he turned away and rejoined Bracebridge, who was waiting for him. "There he goes," sneered Barber. "Just like him.
On reaching home, he sat down at once at the table, supped his cabbage soup up quickly, and swallowed a bit of beef with onions, never noticing their taste, and gulping down everything with flies and anything else which the Lord happened to send at the moment. His stomach filled, he rose from the table, and copied papers which he had brought home.
Now presently, Beltane was aware that his bonds cramped him no longer, found Roger's arm about him, and at his parched lips Roger's steel head-piece brimming with cool, sweet water; and gulping thirstily, soon felt the numbness lifted from his brain and the mist from his eyes; in so much that he sat up, and gazing about, beheld himself alone with Roger.
Just as he was gulping down the coffee Harkness had brought to him, Mr. Granger, Senior, was ushered in. The men knew one another well. They shook hands, then Cornelius Allendyce motioned him to a chair opposite him at the table. The lawyer only needed to look at the other man's face to know that he brought no good news. "Tom telephoned from Cornwall at six o'clock. Not a sign.
Without reply, the man called Campbell drew a silver coin from his pocket and extended it toward trembling Peace, but she shook her head, gulping out, "It will take heaps more than that. Old Skinflint has got the mordige on our farm and won't give it up. I want money enough to buy it back, so's we can still go on living there." "Oh!" shouted the sharp-voiced man, while Mr.
Before he quenched his own thirst Siward filled a bowl and set it on the floor, and it seemed as though the dog would never finish gulping and slobbering in the limpid icy water. "It's the salt air, my boy," commented the young man, gravely refilling his own glass as though accepting the excuse on his own account.
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