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He dodged his conscience by being jerky and noisy, and by shouting at the clerk, "Guess this will prett' near pay for itself in matches, eh?" It was a pretty thing, a nickeled cylinder with an almost silvery socket, to be attached to the dashboard of his car.
How the wind carried them away, higher and higher, as high as the lark which was hovering up there. They were flying to God. Rosa mingled her song with the lark's trills, in joyous, jerky rhythm. "The stone was rolled away As to the grave they came. At its right side in raiment bright An angel sat and calmed their fright. Hallelujah."
"My lady " he said, and stopped. Anne stood like a statue. She felt as if her vitality were suddenly arrested, as if every pulse had ceased to beat. "Please go on," she said in a whisper. "There has been a telegram. Either give it to me, or tell me what was in it." Dimsdale made a jerky movement, as if pulling himself together. He put an unsteady hand into his breast-pocket.
They waited until the cowboy joined the circle about the tree. "Boats, Reddy?" asked Mr. Mabie. "Three. Must have carried around the falls without our knowing it. Hung about here, waiting to steal something from our camp. Had a snare set for jack-rabbits. Saw some torn skins in the camp," was what the cowboy replied, in his jerky way. "Oh!
He is also known as "Posey's bear dog" a sobriquet bestowed upon him partly in humor, because of his ridiculously small size, and partly in honor, because of his utter fearlessness. Posey is a sparely built, muscular man, of medium size, quick and jerky in his movements, and springy in his gait. His face is broad and tanned, his cheek bones high, and his nose a snub.
"Punch," said my father to me one day he called me Punch because in early life I had a squeaky voice and a jerky manner "Punch, my boy, get into a habit of looking up, if you can, as you trot along through this world.
It is a gift more honorable than.... Bah! where is my brain rambling to? You will mutilate it horribly. You will knock out the gems you call Latin quotations, you Philistine, and you will butcher the style to carve into your own jerky jargon; but you cannot destroy the whole of it. I bequeath it to you. Ethel.... My brain again! ... Mrs.
He knocked the ashes from his cigar and threw out his arms with one of his odd, jerky gestures. "There's a good deal of fun in living in the woods. Up in the Adirondacks there was a lot for the boys to do when I was a youngster. I liked winter better than summer; school was in winter, but when you had the fun of fighting big drifts to get to it you didn't mind getting licked after you got there.
For hours she had been whipping herself up to the point of doing it, and now her courage failed her. She followed Barker as he came from the ring. "Mr. Barker, please!" He turned upon her sharply. "Well, what is it NOW?" "I want to ask you to let me off again to-night." She spoke in a short, jerky, desperate way. "What?" he shrieked.
At this crucial instant what had been a gliding flight of the automobile became, suddenly, a more or less uneven and jerky progress, accompanied by violent explosions. At the first of these Honora, in alarm, leaped to her feet. And the machine, after what seemed an heroic attempt to continue, came to a dead stop.
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