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The door leading into the bar was wide open, and within everything seemed hot, even under the cool, white glare of the electric lights, which shone in large oval- shaped globes hanging from the brass supports in clusters like those grapes known as ladies' fingers.
Saith Dr. Luther, "When I saw Dr. Gode begin to tell his puddings hanging in the chimney, I told him he would not live long!" Yet, now I think of it, Uncle Jack hung the puddings in the chimney, but he did not persuade my father to tell them.
Toward evening I wandered into a small pasture, doing my best to think how I could best pay off the black termagant with safety to myself, when with great good luck I suddenly beheld a huge hornet's nest, hanging in a bunch of shrubbery. My plan instantly and fully developed.
"But, oh, gentlemen, I beg, I pray you, do not take me away from my business; it will all go wrong widout me, and I shall lose hundreds, t'ousands of dollars, all my property will be gone before I can get back! I shall be ruin'!" "I am sorry to hear that," I remarked; "but even supposing that matters go as badly with you as you seem to fear, that will be better than hanging, will it not?
Two feet farther on this ceased, and the rushes were succeeded by lines of strong osier withies, an inch or two apart, arched over and fastened together. At this point was a sort of hanging door formed of rushes backed with osiers, and so arranged that at the slightest push from without the door lifted and enabled a wild-fowl to pass under, but dropping behind it prevented its exit.
Your legs get six inches longer every time I look at 'em. Put her down, St. Bernard! She's going to race me to The Grand Stand." "But I want to go and see Uncle Everard and Aunt Stella at The Nest," protested Tessa, hanging back from the contest. "Besides Aunt Mary says I'm not to get hot." "You can't go there anyway," said Tommy inexorably. "The Nest is closed to the public for to-night.
One of the young gentlemen wished to hold him in his arms, so I gave the little fellow to him, and, taking the oar, we began to pull back towards the wreck to try and save any who might be still swimming about. The tops and rigging were by this time full of people who had managed to reach them, while several hanging on by ropes were still floating in the water.
Another time they had drawn a gallows, on which a figure was hanging, with the expression written beneath, "Louis taking an air-bath!" And so, even the short walks of the prisoners were transformed into suffering. At first the queen thought she could not bear it, and the promenades were given up.
'D'ye feel ye can meet your fate like a man, neighbour Darton? asked Johns, breaking a silence which had lasted while five-and-twenty hedgerow trees had glided by. Mr. Darton with a half-laugh murmured, 'Ay call it my fate! Hanging and wiving go by destiny. And then they were silent again.
Down I went; but what was my surprise, instead of being dashed to pieces, to find that I had reached a bottom of some sort, rather splashy certainly, only a few feet below where I had been hanging. An exclamation at the same moment from my uncle reached my ears.
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