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He snatched his knife, ripped open the sleeves, and the setting sun shot over a huge heap of yellow richness, quarts and quarts of heavy golden nuggets the King's Coin. Larry sat down limply, wiping the oozing drops from his forehead. The two boys stood gazing at the treasure as if fascinated.
He says that out of all his varied experiences none stands forth with more distinctness than does the one through which he passed that night on the Fortuna. Doright was paralyzed with terror and sank limply to the floor, resting his head on a bunk and praying as he never had prayed before for deliverance.
"Finlay has his fires banked and can get steam to take us out in an hour or two." Kit went with him to his room and sat down limply. He was covered with dust and wet with dew; his face was haggard and his eyes were dull. "I'll tell you about my adventures later," he said. "What about the cargo?" "Some dagos came along with a mule train and loaded up part of the truck on the beach.
She rose and took a step toward him. She held out her hand to him in a meaningless way, and when he did not take it, she dropped it to her side limply, with burning cheeks. She sank into her chair again. "No, you are not holding me back I wanted to ask you Of course, I have no right to expect that you will let me, but if you would if I could remain here awhile yet?
He had doubtless fallen on it. "Wait a minute and we'll lift you up so that you will rest more comfortably," said Jerry, and, with the aid of his chums he made from their coats and some seaweed a rude sort of bed for the man. There was no doubt that the stranger's left arm was broken. It hung limply down, and the least motion of it produced terrible pain.
"I tell you I'm an officer; I arrest this " The words were cut off abruptly by a loud exclamation from Higgins and a crash of glass. Kirk Anthony's face was drenched, his eyes were filled with a stinging liquid; he felt his prisoner sink limply back into his arms and beheld Higgins struggling in the grasp of big Marty Ringold, the foil-covered neck of a wine bottle in his fingers.
I was nearly crazy when the men sauntered in with the dogs in tow. Oh, say!" Browning fell over limply in his chair, as if the memory of what followed was too much for him. "You have had a real warm time of it," grinned Swallows. "Warm! Warm! My boy, it was warm! Two of the women were showing me their cats. The dogs saw the cats; the cats saw the dogs. One of the cats made a flying leap for a dog.
The burden he carried hung limply in his arms, and over his shoulder there drifted a heavy mass of wet, black hair. He came at length on his firm, bare feet to the little gate that led to the lonely cottage, and, without pausing, passed through. The cottage door was ajar. He pushed it back and entered, closing it, even as he did so, with a backward fling of the heel.
When the light became strong enough to see a form, we found our psychic sitting limply, her head drooping sidewise, her eyes closed, her face white and calm. The cone was lying not far from her chair, separated into two parts. The threads that bound her to her seat were to all appearance precisely as at the beginning of the sitting, except that they were deeply sunk into the flesh of her wrists.
The man in the saddle gave to its every motion lightly and easily. He rode with such grace that he seemed almost a part of the horse. His reactions appeared to anticipate the impulses of the screaming fiend which he was astride. When Wild Fire jolted him with humpbacked jarring bucks his spine took the shock limply to neutralize the effect.
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