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That's only a small saluting cannon they have, and it's hard to shoot straight when there's as much sea on as there is now. Do you want to stop and surrender?" "Not much!" cried the three motor boys in a breath. "Then may it be a stern chase and a long chase!" exclaimed Mr. De Vere. "Crowd her all you can, Ned, and we'll beat him." Ned needed no urging to make the powerful motor do its best.
Vida looked at her, more perplexed than ever by the curious regard in the hard-featured countenance. For there was something very like dumb reproach in Wark's face. Even if I should be smashed up in a motor accident I know you're always expecting that even if I were killed to-morrow, still you'd find I hadn't forgotten you, Wark. 'It isn't that, miss. It isn't death I'm afraid of.
Under its provisions Germany was stripped of her colonies; her investments in the allied possessions were confiscated; her ships were taken; three-quarters of her iron ore and a third of her coal supply were turned over to other powers; motor trucks, locomotives, and other essential parts of her economic mechanism were appropriated.
"We're falling fast." "Throw her nose up," cried Dick. "That's what we've got to do to save ourselves. We'll volplane down, and maybe we can keep up long enough to have Mr. Vardon put in new wires in place of the burned-out ones. If he can do that, and if we can start the motor " "It sounds too good to be true," said Innis. "But get in here, Dick, and see what you can do.
It will take a day or two to get the dye out of my hair and the tan off my skin. I am going to have a sharp touch of influenza, which is a useful disease when one wants to lie in. Since Sunday I have only been twice to bed." We filled him up with coffee and flattery as one fills a motor car with petrol and oil but asked him no questions until we were safely in Cary's study and Mrs.
"With pleasure, if you don't think you have talked enough. Can't you wait until to-morrow?" "I'll feel easier when I've got it off my mind." The doctor thought this likely. He made a sign of acquiescence and took out his notebook; and Herbert give him the rubber company's London address and then dictated: "Regret I am incapacitated for business for indefinite period by motor accident.
"Better drop the bombs, hadn't we?" cried Jack to Tom, as he slowed down the motor a moment to enable his voice to be heard. "I guess so yes. Drop 'em and then shoot over the camp again and let the packages fall. It's getting pretty hot here." And indeed it was. Guns were shooting at the two daring air service boys from all sides of the camp.
Their eyelids drooped, and the deep regular breathing showed that they were asleep. It was about three o'clock in the morning that it happened. Tortured by dreams in which she was being chased by a ghost in goggles and a green motor car, Violet finally awoke and lay staring out at the dark. Then suddenly she sat up. Her dream had followed her into the world of reality.
"Oh, nothing or anything you like. Why?" "Because I thought it might be well, if you can spare the time, to take papa for a spin in the motor. He did not sleep well." She turned to Joyselle. "It is true. I am one of the best sleepers in the world, but last night I had a bad dream, and it got on my nerves and I lay awake for nearly two hours," He spoke with an air of only half-amused grievance.
An inability to execute the movements necessary to express oneself, either by gesture, writing, or speech, is styled "motor aphasia," to distinguish it from the inability to understand familiar gestures and written or spoken words, which is known as "sensory- aphasia."
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