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Hudson and his comrades testified at length, but each in turn, after making the most of the accidental upset of a barrow-load of earth among their crops, or the blundering of a steer into a trench, harked back to the broken sluice. When amid some laughter they concluded, others who favored Savine described the precautions Thurston had taken.
'I 'm to take my lady to my lord? and, 'Does it mean my lady wants a fly? Kit asked, and harked back on whether Madge had seen my lord. 'At five in the morning? don't sham donkey with me, said Gower. The business looked inclined to be leaky, but which the way for proving himself other than a donkey puzzled Kit: so much so, that a shove made him partly grateful.
The flag-draped coffin was just about to pass, and the fanatical barber harked back to Philip. "They say it was all empty honours with him afore he died abroad." "A full belly's a full belly if it's only full of straw," snapped Manon Moignard. "Who was it brought him home?" asked the jailer. "None that was born on Jersey, but two that lived here," remarked Maitre Damian, the schoolmaster from St.
This excellent person, though, knew very little about boys, and nothing whatever as to their requirements. Her mind harked back to the "thirties" and "forties," and she endeavoured to reconstitute the dress of little boys at that period.
"It's a face of Gainsborough!" Mr. Longdon returned with spirit. "Lady Julia herself harked back." Vanderbank, clearly, was equally touched and amused. "Let us say at once that it's a face of Raphael." His old friend's hand was instantly on his arm. "That's exactly what I often said to myself of Lady Julia's." "The forehead's a little too high," said Vanderbank.
And Tansey, stumbling through this old-world dust, looked up, dark as it was, and saw Andalusian beauties glimmering on the balconies. Some of them were laughing and listening to the goblin music that still followed; others harked fearfully through the night, trying to catch the hoof beats of caballeros whose last echoes from those stones had died away a century ago.
I was all sole alone the other evenin', Wednesday it was, and when I heard them raps I mustered up, and went and put my head out o' the door, and I couldn't see nothing, and when I went back, knock knock, it begun again, and I went to the door and harked.
Lookit," he added in a more conciliatory tone, "can't you see how it is? I need you, an' you need me. All I'm asking of you is to back me up when I want you to. Outside of that you can sit on yore shoulder-blades and enjoy life." "We didn't bargain on that," harked back Lanpher. "But that was then, and this is now. Which may not be logic, but it is necessity, an' Necessity, Mr.
Ordinarily Rolf could manage Buck easily, but the present situation seemed hopeless. In his memory he harked back to Redding days, and he recalled old Eli Gooch, the ox expert, and wondered what he would have done. Then, as he sat, he caught sight of the sick ox reaching out its head and deftly licking up a few drops of bran mash that had fallen from his yoke fellow's portion.
From time to time her fingers tightened upon his in a reassuring clasp that took the place of words. Acutely self-conscious, Roger's memory harked back continually to the last evening he and Barbara had spent together. In a way, he was grateful for North's presence.
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