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The man began hooking together what appeared to be several frames of steel bars. Working swiftly he shaped them into a steel cage hardly larger than to accommodate a man standing. Kendric's heart leaped and then stood still. He remembered words which Juanita, terrified by idle threat from him, had spoken. He sat like a man in a trance. The dim mirrors seemed unreal.
In a Hoboken storage warehouse was found a quantity of picric acid he had deposited there, with a number of steel mine tanks, each fitted with an attachment for hooking to the rudder of a vessel, and clockwork and wire to fire the explosive in the tanks.
"Well, that's what I think, too." "Why, Pony," said his mother, "is there anybody who thinks such a thing can be right?" "Well, the boys say it's not stealing. Stealing is hooking a thing out of a wagon or a store; but if you can knock a thing off a tree, or get it through a fence, when it's on the ground already, then it's just like gathering nuts in the woods. That's what the boys say.
Trotter and Packwood stopped, in a 'bus with the prisoners, to show them to Jack at the hotel. "That pair look rascally enough to do any dirty trick," declared Jacob Farnum, in high disgust, as he looked over Leroux and Stephanoulis. The prisoners were, indeed, "hard hooking." Both were men below average size, with sullen, defiant eyes. Both were dressed roughly, like laborers.
He was very young, and could not help showing off a little with two fair ladies to look on. Next morning I got away early. It was light at four, and by that time I was a good way up the river. I carried food with me, and my hooking pole which is like a boat-hook really.
"Ching hear; Ching don'tee know; not velly far," was the unsatisfactory reply. "I'm afraid we've come on a cock-and-bull hunt," said the boatswain, looking to right and left as he stood up in the boat, for the creek now grew so narrow that the men had to lay in their oars, and the coxswain also stood up and drew the boat onward by hooking the overhanging boughs.
He always brought in one more load a day than Dan did, that was to be expected. Dan explained this very reasonably, Claude thought, one afternoon when they were hooking up their teams. "It's all right for you to jump at that corn like you was a-beating carpets, Claude; it's your corn, or anyways it's your Paw's. Them fields will always lay betwixt you and trouble.
'Noddy, said Mrs Boffin, coming from her fashionable sofa to his side on the plain settle, and hooking her comfortable arm through his, 'Next I think and I really have been thinking early and late of the disappointed girl; her that was so cruelly disappointed, you know, both of her husband and his riches. Don't you think we might do something for her? Have her to live with us?
Hooking her arm in his, she drew him to the window; and Felix thought: 'She just wants to talk to me about Derek. Dog in the manger that I am! Here goes to be decent! So he said: "Well, my dear?" Nedda pressed his hand with a little coaxing squeeze. "Daddy, darling, I do love you!" And, though Felix knew that she had grasped what he was feeling, a sort of warmth spread in him.
He chuckled, reached for it, and fingering the rough edge to avoid loose tiles, hauled himself up to a foothold on the beam, and so, flinging out his arms and hooking one knee, scrambled over and lay on a ribbed and mossy surface, under the friendly stars.
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