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They glistened with wet and sent down from their gutters spouts of water that gleamed, catching the light of the torch, like threads of opal fire on the pallid dove colour of the towering house-fronts. The torch went round a corner, its light withdrew along the walls by long jumps as its bearer stepped into the distance ahead. Then it was all black.
"I'm not going to," said Tess. "I was reaching for some more butter for my toast not for your tooth." "We-ell!" confessed the smallest Kenway; "it just jumps when anybody comes toward it." "Be a brave little girl and go with sister to the dentist," begged Ruth. "No please Ruthie! I can't," wailed Dot.
In a minute or two another player coppers it, and takes it down. I jumps in and grabs him by the arm. 'Hold on, I hollered, 'Arthur, here's a piker that's touchin' you for your chips. "Say, there was trouble right away. The piker made a smash at me. I dodged and caught him an upper cut, and the bouncer grabbed him and threw him out.
Clemence trembled and fell back in her chair, frozen with horror. Gerfaut rose, almost as frightened as she; Mademoiselle de Corandeuil, aroused from her sleep, sat up in her chair as suddenly as a Jack-in-a-box that jumps in one's face when a spring is touched. As to Constance, she darted under her mistress's chair, uttering the most piteous howls.
He is as supple as one half his age; it is readily demonstrated as he runs, jumps and yells while attending the games of his favorite pastimes, baseball and football. Wherever the Edward Waters College football team goes, there "Parson" wants to go also. Whenever the crowd at a game hears the scream "Come on boys," everyone knows it is "Parson" Andrews.
"No, I do not," I answered abruptly, far too abruptly, I am afraid; "human beings cannot be like sheep jumping through a hedge if one jumps, they all jump, you know." "And you do not like that," with a little laugh, as though he were amused. "No, I must be sure it is a safe gap first, and not a short cut to nowhere," was my inexplicable response. I do not know if Mr.
"Mind," said the latter, "you ain't supposed to go to sleep. You goes your rounds four times. There's the rules." He pointed to a card on the wall, and added "I take forty winks myself every now and then, but I can wake up if a fly jumps on the table. Now, I'm off. I'll be back in lots o' time."
When he wasn't trainin' he was a kind of locoed heavyweight stewed most of the time. It was one winter night in Toledo. Me and him went into one of them 'Come-In-Stranger' rescue joints. 'Course, they was singin' hymns and prayin' in there, but it was warmer than outside, so we stayed. "After a while up jumps the foreman of that gospel outfit.
Now Peter Rabbit and Jumper the Hare are very fond of tender young carrots and they volunteered to bring a supply for the feast. So away they hurried with big jumps down the Lone Little Path and out across the Green Meadows.
"'He has suspicions, she writes; 'and to what extremities might he not resort, were he to discover the truth! And with infinite art she insinuates that the best way to justify his constant presence is to associate himself with that jealous husband. "It is with childish haste that my father jumps at the suggestion. But money is needed.
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