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"One minute, Miss White." He licked his lips, and there was an unaccustomed embarrassment in his manner. "Maybe you'll come along one night after the show and have a little supper. You know I'm very keen on you and all that sort of thing."
Doctor Barnes made a speech, telling that he used to be puny and weak, and how he went into training and became a pugilist, and how he'd fought the Tennessee something or other the men nodded as if they knew and licked him in forty seconds or forty rounds, I'm not sure which. The men were standing on their chairs cheering for him, and even Mr.
"'I licked every one of them, and it was good and fair fighting if I was on a tear, I said; 'but I'm ashamed of it now. "'You're Larry Moore, who pitched on the Fall Rivers last season? she said. "'I am. "'You can pitch some! she said with a nod. "'When I'm straight I can. "'And why don't you go at it like a man then? You could get in the Nationals, she said.
"Well, but they do sometimes," persisted Joe; "there was a girl kep' this school last summer. She called it 'vacation school. But we didn't like her; she licked like fury." "So she did," echoed Chicken Little, "licked and pulled ears. Kep' a stick on the desk."
Impossible!" and as she spoke Bruno ran up and licked her hand. "If he does, his memory is better than mine; at any rate, I am half afraid of him. Come, Octave, let us go." They turned away, and Octave would have forgotten all about the occurrence had not Bruno, delighted at having found an old acquaintance, persisted in following them.
Whether this particular "bob" had reference to Railsford's testimonial or not, the writer cannot speak positively. "We had a ripping time at our sports, and licked all the records but three. No end of a crow for us. The School's tearing its hair all over the place, and our fellows have been yelling for two days without stopping.
How Diana wished she could tell her all she had done and seen on that Sunday when everyone had been so unhappy about her! "Where did you go, you darling?" she asked her over and over again, but Sarah never answered. She only wagged her fringy tail, and licked her mistress's hand, and goggled at her with her full dark eyes.
"Yes!" retorted Gabriel, his eyes flashing, as he kept tossing the ball nervously, and catching it; "yes, that's the meanness of it: the little boy can't help himself." "By golly, I'd kick!" put in Little Malacca. "Then you'd be licked till you dropped, my small Sir," said Abel, sneeringly. "Yes, Abel," replied Gabriel, "but it's a mean thing for an American boy to want fagging."
There were no round and uniform waves coming on in order, but as far as one could see, in the pale and flickering light, the sea was torn up, lashed and stirred into fragments; its flamelike, gigantic tongues licked and leaped into the air, beside foam-filled abysses it cast up jagged and improbable forms, and seemed with the force of monstrous arms to hurl the spume in mad playfulness to invisible heights.
Ess Kay, "unless we find out that he's been sent by someone undesirable, and then of course the Duchess would expect me to see that you gave him back." "I feel somehow that we shall never find out," I said, and I hugged Vivace so hard, without meaning to, that he gave a tiny grunt. But he didn't mind a bit, and licked my hand with a tongue that was like a sweet little sample of pink plush.
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