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I thought the last look he gave me told me to stay a few minutes." "Pshaw! He could not live. The sooner dead the better for him; as well as for us. Did you mark how he eyed us when we carried away his wife and daughter? I never cried in my life, since I was knee-high, but curse me if I ever felt in better tune for the business than just then.
More streets emanating out from Mott like a handful of crooked, rheumatic fingers, then suddenly the Bowery again, cowering beneath elevated trains, where men, burned down to the butt end of soiled lives, pass in and out and out and in of the knee-high swinging doors a veiny-nosed, acid-eaten race in themselves.
Blue and yellow lupins stood knee-high, and strawberries grew wild among them. We had not uttered a sound, and I had not glanced at my companion. I stopped; he wheeled abruptly and grasped my wrist in a manner which sent the basket whirling from my hand.
" edly de ," he worried. "That might stand for 'repeatedly demanded' or 'repeatedly denied' or 'undoubtedly denoted' or a hundred But that 'Pursuit! is the core of the trouble. They put the pursuit on him, sure as you're knee-high to a hope of heaven!" The belief grew in him that out of those pieces of words would come solution of his problem. The idea was born of his remarkable instinct.
I wouldn't take them for a gift if that mountain was pure gold how's he going to haul the ore to the railroad? Now listen, my friend, I've known that boy since he stood knee-high to a toad and of all the liars in Arizona he stands out, preëminently, as the worst." "You question his veracity, then?" enquired the engineer as he fumbled for some papers in his coat.
'I don't suppose he will, says I, 'and serves him quite right too. I put my horses in the paddock there was wild oats and crowsfoot knee-high in it and helped the overseer to muster and draft. He gave me a fresh horse, of course. When he saw how handy I was in the yard he got quite shook on me, and, says he
His trousers were also of white moleskin, and were tucked into knee-high sealskin boots with moccasined feet. From under a muskrat fur cap appeared a round, smiling face, tanned a dark brown, and a pair of bright, pleasant eyes. "Hello!" said Charley. "Looking for some one?" "No," answered the boy, "I'm just pullin' over to look at the ship."
Eastward a belt of trees divides the dunes from a hard stony plain built upon with granite hills; westward the desert stretches for fifty-eight waterless miles to Mahobey and Berber on the Nile, a desert so flat that the merest tuft of grass knee-high seems at the distance of a mile a tree promising shade for a noonday halt, and a pile of stones no bigger than one might see by the side of any roadway in repair achieves the stature of a considerable hill.
Uya following stopped knee-high across the stream, and the man who was swimming turned about. It seemed as though he had gone into the water a youth, and come out of it a man full grown. He knew what there was behind him. A broad stretch of grass, and then a thicket, and in that Eudena could hide.
He said he did; that he had been looking for the "angel of the Lord" ever since he was knee-high, and, though we professed to be fighting for the Union, he supposed that slavery was the cause, and that our success was to be his freedom. I asked him if all the negro slaves comprehended this fact, and he said they surely did.
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