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A series of gulping sobs followed, diminishing by degrees into silence. Presently she looked up and smiled, a moist and pathetic smile. 'I'm sorry, she said, 'for being so stupid. But he was so horrid and patronizing to you, I couldn't help scratching. I believe I'm the worst cat in London. 'No, this is, said Beverley, pointing to the canvas. 'At least, according to the late Sellers.
A gasp, a spasmodic sound of gulping, another gasp and silence. Two-thirds of the bottle's contents was down the man's throat. Dick poured the remnant into his flask and sat watching the effects. Satisfied at last that he had induced complete alcoholic coma, he touched Amaryllis on the shoulder. "Stop her as soon as you can," he said. "I'll drive now."
Instead, one could see a rough blouse sleeve drawn across the eyes, and a gulping down as if something choked the wearer. These were letters written to the wives and mothers who were watching and waiting for their loved ones to return. These letters reminded them of their own wives and mothers in the Northland, waiting and praying for them.
"Why don't you answer?" I went on, as Aunt Hannah remained silent; I could hear her gulping with rage. At last she spoke: "What impudence what unwarrantable impudence!" The words were shot from between her teeth. "You you dare to speak to me like this you you " "After all, Miss Challoner," I cut in, "it's true.
"I'm dying of thirst, let's go!" repeated Prada, at last managing to wrench himself away from the torturing sight. He called for some iced lemonade and drank the glassful at one draught, gulping it down with the greedy eagerness of a man stricken with fever, who will never more be able to quench the burning fire within him.
If, on the other hand, the brain is too much stimulated and the child is restless and irritable, the reflex act of suction is inhibited, and it is a difficult matter to get the child to the breast. He is too eager, mouthing, and gulping, and spluttering.
From Italy McAllister went to spend the summer at Baden-Baden. The Prince of Prussia, later the Emperor William, was there. It pained the young American to find that the royal visitor was no connoisseur, gulping his wine instead of sipping and lingering over it. But there is haste to express intense admiration.
All eyes were now fixed on the subject of the toast, who by gulping down port wine at the imminent hazard of suffocation, endeavoured to conceal his confusion.
This appeal, which was quite intelligible, caused an immediate rush of the men aloft; but the monkey, after gulping down one of the lumps, or twenty-four grains, shot upwards to the top, over the rail of which he displayed his shaven countenance, and, as if in scorn of their impotent efforts to catch him, plucked another lump from his cheek, and swallowed it likewise, making four dozen grains to begin with.
Slowly, with due inflection and emphasis slowly, but without pause for thought or explanation he read to the end, ceased suddenly, and lifted his eyes. "There, Letty," he said, "what do you think of that? There's a bit of Sunday reading for you!" Letty was looking altogether perplexed, and not a little frightened. "I don't understand a word of it," she answered, gulping back her tears.
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