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I'll have your tin sign taken away from you, before I touch this port again. You'll see you you " he ended impotently for lack of epithets, but continued in eloquent pantomime to wave his arms. With an oath the young man recognized defeat, and shrugged his shoulders. "Oh, you go to the devil," he shouted, and turned away.
Twice, in her frantic efforts to escape, she ran back into the centre of the maze. The jester had gone, but she imagined him lurking behind every corner, and she impotently recalled his words: "There is no way out of the magic circle." At last, panting and exhausted, she knew that she was unwinding the puzzle.
Alan, helpless, stood impotently in the shadow, biting his blond mustache with helpless rage. In another second their cherished opportunity would vanish. And, as the gaoler's next visit was to be to Number Two, discovery stared them in the eyes. It was Jack who broke the momentary spell of apathy. He was standing at the far end of the cell, near the stream.
Nancy and Billie exchanged glances of dismay and Billie impotently poked the pot of vegetables with a long peeled wand. "What's that thing that looks like an emigrant's roll?" demanded the doctor. "It won't explode, I hope," remarked Miss Campbell, noticing that the roll of meat seemed to be bursting its bonds in the process of roasting. "Poor thing, it does seem to be suffering," said Dr.
Felt the vital force and strength of him ebb and weaken so that the lean, slender fingers that groped for MacNair's throat closed feebly and dropped limp to dangle impotently from his nerveless arms.
"Are you man or devil that you spirit away great herds like this. Across the keg, I know, but how how? Twenty thousand! My God, you'll swing for this night's work," he went on impotently. "The whole countryside will be after you. I am not the man to sit down quietly under such handling.
Then, all at once, he was up and at Ivan, lurching forward upon him, clutching, impotently, at his throat, breathing gutturally, while he uttered inarticulate syllables in the tongue of a serf. Ivan, even in his disgust at this revelation of the man's lowest self, his unquestionable bad blood, held him off, easily.
Bearing its terrors in mind, we may even impotently seek to check its advance, but the appeal of flying is too deep, its elimination is now impossible, and granted that war is inevitable, it must be accepted for good or ill.
"I heard you were back," he continued impotently. "Yes," she assented, "there was nothing else open.... Won't you come up and smoke a cigarette? It's pleasant here on the gallery." He mounted the steps, making his way over the narrow, hollow-sounding passage to her side. She was seated overlooking the rift of the valley. "I'll get you a chair," she said, rising.
Just when I've got something I must live for, something I've got to do. Don't you believe me? Don't you understand?" He turned again toward the Judge, and beat the rail before him impotently with his wasted hand. "Don't send me back for life!" he cried. "Give me a few years to work for her two years, one year to show her what I feel here, what I never felt for her before. Look at her, gentlemen.
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