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"I hope you have formed a favourable opinion of me, Master Quacko," he said, looking at the ape, for even in the dangerous predicament in which he was placed he could not resist a joke. "Quacko, quacko, quacko," went the monkey, in a tone which Jack thought was friendly. He felt about in his pockets, and found a piece of biscuit. He nibbled a bit, and then held it out to his companion.
Peter walked all around it, looking for all the world as if he couldn't believe that it was real. Finally he reached out and nibbled a leaf of it. It WAS real! There was no doubt in Peter's mind then. Some one had put it there while Peter was asleep, and Peter knew that it was meant for him. Who could it have been? Suddenly a thought popped into Peter's head.
I really thought I was not hungry until Aubrey told me not to eat, and that, of course, was enough to make any woman ravenous. If he had told me "to buck up and eat a good dinner," of course I could only have nibbled. She broke out again, and pleaded hard for us to drink our coffee, but we were obdurate. Finally we got up from the table and Mary removed the cloth, muttering to herself.
Dusty, well-beaten trails led down through these wide canyons, trails which undoubtedly gained the top of the level, rocky plateau a few miles back from the river. As is usual in a cattle country at the end of the summer season, the bunch-grass, close to the water supply which in this case happened to the river was nibbled close to the roots.
As the nurseling's neck lengthens and dives deeper, the victim's entrails are nibbled gradually and methodically: first, the least essential; next, those whose removal leaves yet a remnant of life; lastly, those whose loss inevitably entails death, followed very soon by putrefaction. At the first bites we see the victim's blood oozing through the wound.
The brown hares would run to and fro over his feet, while the doe and her little fawn nibbled the grass close by, listening to the sound of the human voices as though they liked it. What a happy home it was! John wondered if ever any boy was so lucky as he. John had grown to love the little four-footed brothers dearly, and they were great friends of his.
However, he could get more to-morrow. So he broke the fourth, and found it also good, so whipped it up with more cognac, and felt happier than he had done since he nibbled his rabbit-bones. As he lay that night, and the gale howled about him more furiously than ever, his thoughts ran constantly on the dead man lying in the silent darkness down below.
But it appears that one must read the journals to learn about you. I am going to tell you some news however, before it appears in print." "That interests me?" "Perhaps, but it most assuredly interests me!" "Important news?" asked Sulpice. "Important or great, as you will!" He nibbled his blond moustache nervously. Guy had not deceived him. "Then I think I know your news, my dear Marianne!"
The ranch lies in a valley watered by the Rainbow, and makes a pretty little oasis of green in a limitless waste of sagebrush. Gene and Bob Johnson were cutting alfalfa when Whispering Smith rode into the field, and, stopping the mowers, the three men talked while the seven horses nibbled the clover.
Una had nibbled at Shakespeare, Tennyson, Longfellow, and Vanity Fair in her high-school days, but none of these had satisfied her so deeply as did the serial's hint of sex and husband. She was absorbed by it. Yet all the while she was irritably conscious of her mother's cough hacking, sore-sounding, throat-catching.
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