United States or Hong Kong ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Her dark gray coat and brown boots looked neat and serviceable. "Of course I did not know to whom I was speaking," he managed to say, for he now recognized the "ghost," and was more surprised than he had ever been in his life before. "That is matterless," said Iris frigidly. "Where is Captain Coke?" "On the bridge," said Philip. "I will go to him. Please don't come with me.
She went to the hotel bureau, but a sympathetic landlady shook her head. "The post-office is closed. No telegrams can be dispatched until eight o'clock on Monday," she said. "But there is the telephone " "It is matterless," said Mrs. Devar, crushing the written forms in her fingers as though she had reason to believe they might sting her. She resolved to let events drift now.
"It is never matterless how any girl marries, squire; and our Charlotte" "Oh, I thought Charlotte was a child yet! How could I tell there was danger at Up-Hill? You ought to have looked better after your daughters. See that she doesn't go near-hand Latrigg's again." "I wouldn't be so foolish, William. It's a deal better not to notice.
In the meanwhile, the primitive atomic theory, which has served as the scaffolding for the edifice of modern physics and chemistry, has been quietly dismissed. I cannot discover that any contemporary physicist or chemist believes in the real indivisibility of atoms, or in an interatomic matterless vacuum.
Then she asked the question of all questions the most irritating, "What is the matter with you, squire?" "What is the matter, indeed? Love-making. That is the matter, Alice." "Charlotte?" "Yes." "And Stephen Latrigg?" "Yes." "I thought as much. Opportunity is a dangerous thing." "My word! To hear you talk, one would think it was matterless how our girls married."
"Your man, Robinson, has been drawing Elkin, or Elkin drew him I am not quite sure which, but think it matterless either way." He sketched Robinson's activities briefly, but in sufficient outline. "A new figure has come on the screen Siddle, the chemist," he added thoughtfully. "Siddle!" Mr. Fowler was surprised. "Why, he is supposed to be a model of the law-abiding citizen."
So the Andromeda was doomed to be lost, no matter what happened. By , forgive me, Miss Yorke, but this kind of thing makes one savage." "Perhaps it is matterless now. Coke will stand by the rest of us in our struggle for life, at any rate. But the Brazilians " "Have no fear of them. I, too, have watched San Benavides.
Several large compartments were devoted to the machinery which automatically serviced the vessel refrigerators, heaters, generators and purifiers for water and air, and the numberless other mechanisms which would make the cruiser a comfortable and secure home, as well as an invincible battleship, in the heatless, lightless, airless, matterless waste of illimitable, inter-galactic space.
We all thought at first that he had yielded to some awfully sudden form of paralysis, but some one Tomlinson, I believe noticed a hole through the right side of his coat and waistcoat. Then Sylvia oh, perhaps that is matterless " "Every incident, however slight, is of importance in a case of this sort," Winter encouraged him. "Well, she said what was it, exactly? Do you remember, Sylvia?"
But do tell me, how did those horrid Chileans manage to cast off the tackle before Mr. Gray or some of the other men were able to stop them? Of course, it is matterless now, in a sense, but at that moment it looked like leaving those on the ship to certain death." Mrs. Somerville was stricken dumb.
Word Of The Day