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He stopped abruptly; then added: "I would give five hundred pounds for a glimpse of that visitor's face!" "Is Burke " "God knows what has become of Burke, Petrie! We were both caught napping in the establishment of the amiable Shen-Yan, where, amid a very mixed company of poker players, we were losing our money like gentlemen." "But Weymouth "
"Don't you worry about our officers," replied Frank with a conviction that had been deepened by the skilful leadership the American troops had had so far in the drive. "It'll be as hard to find them napping as it is to catch a weasel asleep." "I know they're good stuff," agreed Dick, "but we're all human, you know." "All except the boches," grunted Billy. "They're inhuman."
The professor continued to look at him with a little laugh on his closed mouth, and with a glance sparkling with benevolent hilarity; then he turned to the lady of the house, who was napping in a corner of the sofa. "It is a fine case, Countess Carlotta!" "I understand that well enough," said she, "and it seems to me time to end it; isn't that so, Don Rocco?"
Of course you won't believe it till she herself tells you." Blake looked about the room. Genevieve was close behind the stove. He shook his head and muttered despondently: "Till she tells me!" "Did you ever play puss-in-the-corner?" asked Dolores. "You witch!" exclaimed Lord James. To divert her attention, he drew her to him and slipped a ring on her slender finger. "Ha! Caught you napping!
The stewardess a colored woman laughed when she saw the half-awake little passenger; but she was very good-natured, whipped off Eyebright's boots, hat, and jacket, in a twinkling, and tucked her into a little berth, where in three minutes she was napping like a dormouse.
He apologized for being caught napping, but declared it was his only amusement in that desolate region of damps, and assured me a man would deteriorate less rapidly by sleeping away his idle hours than by keeping awake to what was going on in the neighboring hamlet. Besides the United States Signal officer, his only intelligent neighbor was a brother of the Rev.
With wild, ferocious cries and amidst the nasty squealing of battle-enraged thoats we bore down upon the Zodangans. We did not catch them napping, but found a well-entrenched battle line confronting us. Time after time we were repulsed until, toward noon, I began to fear for the result of the battle.
When the first roar of the battle broke with the dawn he was away conferring with the wounded naval commander, Foote. His right, under McClernand, had been caught napping, and eight thousand Southern troops striking it with a tremendous impact just as the men snatched up their arms, drove it back in heavy loss and confusion.
That good lady stuck to me like a burr at least I believe she did." "I have no doubt she did. We have been caught napping finely, Jervis." "How?" "We'll go into that presently. Let us hear about your adventures first."
Curran repeated in confusion. "Do you think you can catch a man like Arthur napping?" she sneered. "Is there a moment in the last four years that he has been asleep? See to it that you are not reported to him every night. But if he is in love with Honora Ledwith, there's a chance that he won't see or care to see what you are doing. She's a lovely girl.
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