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"Hum!" said the corporal firmly, "but this here cow has a long tail! ain't it?" "True and mine were a stub let us seek farther, officer!"
'Here is a young fellow now, said the Justice, with much-embarrassed looks, 'thinks that I carry the whole statute law of England in my head, and a POSSE COMITATUS to execute them in my pocket! Why, what good would my interference do? but hum eh I will speak to your guardian in your favour. He took Mr.
Above the lounge a mica viewplate gave her a broad view of the sky. Mryna remembered that the man in the supply room had said he was waiting for an auto-pickup; he was on his way back to Earth. Mryna had taken his ship instead of her own. In panic she tried to open the door again, but she found no way to do it. Machinery beneath her feet began to hum.
During a silence so intense that nothing was heard save the hum of two great "bumblebees" that darted in and out among the trees and flew at erratic angles above our heads, the negroes came forward and stretched their necks over each other's shoulders, peering curiously at the little mounds of powder that lay before them, at the innocent-looking bottle that stood in their midst, and the great high priest who sat behind.
There are five or six saddled horses usually tethered below the house; and with overseers, white and coloured, and natives riding at full gallop, and people coming on all sorts of errands, the hum of the crushing-mill, the rush of water in the flumes, and the grind of the waggons carrying cane, there is no end of stir.
I could seem to hear her giving orders in a cool, matter-of-fact way, and once I thought there was some slight objection to leaving her alone and she stamped her foot. Odd, wasn't it?" "Must have been the doctor," said Diane, rising and adding wood to the fire. "Johnny went into the village for him." "Hum!" said Philip doubtfully. "He had very nice hands," went on Diane calmly.
The rippling river, the rustling leaves, the hum of insects grew more audible; and these are gentle sounds that prove wide quietude in Nature, and tell man that the burr and buzz in his day-laboring brain have ceased, and he had better be breathing deep in harmony.
Well, my letter is official, my message is not: beg him to see Mr. before we meet, he will understand, all rests upon that interview." Egerton then, extending the letter, resumed gravely, "Of course you will not mention to any one that Dr. F was with me: the health of public men is not to be suspected. Hum, were you in your own room or the ante- room?" "The ante-room, sir."
She compelled herself to say, in a hard tone "You think I want talent, or am too old to begin." Klesmer made a sort of hum, and then descended on an emphatic "Yes! The desire and the training should have begun seven years ago or a good deal earlier.
But, look here, you aren't keen on getting the prize. Why not send in only the one verse? It makes a fairly decent poem. 'Hum! Think the Old 'Un'll pass it? 'He'll have to. There's nothing in the rules about length. Here it is if you want it. 'Thanks. I suppose it'll be all right? So long! I must be off. The Headmaster, known to the world as the Rev.
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