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Then a roar of wheels sounds outside, and you drop the bell-rope handle and go out to see the finest sight of all. I suppose those old Romans thought the chariot-races were pretty nifty, but if an old Roman should reassemble himself and watch the dray-race to a Homeburg fire, he'd wonder how he ever managed to sit through a silly little dash around an arena.
T. A. Buck stared, open-mouthed, the paper on which he had been scrawling fluttering unnoticed to the floor. "Look here!" he interrupted. "Is this supposed to be humorous?" "And," went on Emma McChesney, calmly, "in our full and complete, not to say nifty line of women's pajamas pink pajamas, blue pajamas, violet pajamas, yellow pajamas, white silk " T. A. Buck stood up.
"Oh, they'd feel a little easier, I suppose," says Hartley, "if I wasn't in uniform. Maybe it would be best, the first time." So that's how it happened that promptly at 4 p.m. next day we was shown up to this private suite in the Plutoria. Must have been kind of hard for Hartley to give up his nifty O. D.'s, for he ain't such an impressive young gent in a sack coat.
The feeling in the court next morning was good tempered, even jaunty. The benches were filled with young barristers, all of whom had made up their minds that the testimony would be what one of them called "nifty." Everyone treated the case as practically over. "But will Carson call witnesses?" I asked.
The time may come when you'll be grateful to your poor little old uncle, for his nifty little fifty thousand per annum." Nancy turned a tragic face to him. "I tell you I'm not grateful to him," she said, "and I doubt if I ever will be. I don't want the stupid money. I want to work life out in my own way. I know I've got it in me, and I want my chance to prove it.
The scout of scouts, W. Harris of the nifty Bridgeboro outfit, was nearly suffocated, then escaped and stood triumphant over the ruins of the West Ketchem school, and still Peter Piper's smarting eyes were fixed upon that book. They were riveted to page two hundred and eighty-four and he was reading the words "Scouts should thoroughly master these two standard...."
Why, you are a pearl among women, the queen of your sex. You can't have been looking in a glass lately. You stand alone. Simply alone. You make the rest look like battered repaints." "Well," said Adeline, softening a trifle, "I believe I am fairly good-looking " "Anybody who was content to call you fairly good-looking would describe the Taj Mahal as a pretty nifty tomb."
"And we owe them that much for that nice, nifty little night trapeze act we had to do through space on their account," added Slim. "Not to mention the wrecked tractor," put in Frank. "Well," spoke Lieutenant Mackinson, calling them to the business of the day, "I guess we can make a report to headquarters now and a good one, too."
How far is your mine from the railroad?" "Oh, not far. About forty mile. Yes, I guess I can wait a week. I stand the hotel grub pretty well." "Where are you staying, Mr. Johnson?" "The Algonquin. Pretty nifty." "Good house. And how many days is it by rail to Bless my soul, Mr.
Janet, be it remembered, lacked but two years of the fatal age. Already chits of thirty-five or seven were generously alluding to her as the prop of her father's age; so small wonder if she simpered instead of passing with a nifty air when Timmins spoke one evening.
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