United States or Luxembourg ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
But now everything was in readiness, the signal had been given, and the train began to move. Reynolds was comfortably seated and looking out of the open window, when Frontier Samson came and sat down by his side. The old prospector was much out of breath and panting heavily. "I nearly missed the train," he explained. "She was movin' when I swung on board." "Sight-seeing, eh?" Reynolds queried.
There are good buoys, known landmarks, and fixed light-houses, so that you know how to steer, and not helter-skelter lights movin' on the shore like will-o'-the whisps, or wreckers' false fires, that just lead you to destruction. The medium between the two churches, for the clergy, would be the right thing. In yours they are too independent of the people, with us a little too dependent.
Hurry up now! 'Cause if you ain't back in ten minutes, I'll be movin' along, an' when I pass the word to the owners of them cattle it's goin' to raise their asperity some obnoxious." With a growl the man disappeared into the house to return a few minutes later with a sack whose sides bulged. "Dump 'em out an' we'll look 'em over!" ordered the Texan and the man complied. "All right.
Will, you'll remember thin, Jack, how we an' the Tyrone met wid a bang at the bottom an' got jammed past all movin' among the Paythans. 'Ow! It was a tight 'ole. I was squeezed till I thought I'd bloomin' well bust, said Ortheris, rubbing his stomach meditatively. ''Twas no place for a little man, but wan little man' Mulvaney put his hand on Ortheris's shoulder 'saved the life av me.
"Doc" Jones opined that it "looked yaller," and he even affirmed that it "tasted yaller." "Waal, people," exclaimed Matt, "I 'low I've done growed a bit, atter that mess o' meat. Le's be movin'." It was a hard pull for me, climbing up the rocky approach to Briar Knob. This was my first trip to the main divide, and my heart was not yet used to mountain climbing.
Glover, who evidently found interest in discussions, but none whatever in a game of cards, tilted back against the wall and began to talk, now that the argument was over. "Zeke tells me," he began in a nasal voice, tamping the tobacco into the bowl of his pipe reflectively, "as how they's a bunch o' Injun renegades movin' south'ards off the reservation on a hell-toot.
"I'll work for 'e no more; my mind's made up, an' when my mind's made up theer bean't no movin' me like a rock I be!" "'Twould ha' been a fine thing for a Siss'n'urst man to ha' mended t' owd screen!" said the Ancient. "'Twould that!" nodded Simon, "a shame it is as it should go to others." Hereupon, having finished my ale, I rose. "Be you'm a-goin', young maister?" inquired the Ancient.
But she could see from her sightly place that the hull of the children wuz a-movin' on, some slower and some faster, movin' on, and a-gittin' into line, and a-fallin' into step, to the music of the future.
"What have you seen?" he inquired, not regarding the exclamation of surprise of the new comers, at the unexpected sight before them. "We've seen nothin' its so dark," answered Green, "but unless the cattle have got into the garden, there's somethin' else movin' there.
"I live just down the road a piece, and it's only a mile to Bakersville. That's a good town. They got a movin' picture show there. I went onct!" "Did you indeed?" said Betty. "But we can't go there. Isn't there some way of getting to Rockford without going all the way back to the fork? Why, it's miles and miles!"
Word Of The Day