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Jennings closed the door and seated himself at the far end of the room. She began a ridiculous attempt. She stopped, gritted her teeth, began again. Once more the result was absurd; but this time she was able to keep on, not improving, but maintaining her initial off-key quavering. She stopped. "You see," said she. "Shall I go on?" "Don't stop again until I tell you to, please," said he.
I'd like to come along with you to observe, but I wouldn't make any choice between Wayne and Nolan." Downstairs, the rear room was locked, with one of Mother Corey's guards at the door. From inside came the rare sound of water splashing, mixed with a wheezing, off-key caterwauling. Mother Corey was apparently making good on his promise to take a bath.
Pants tight in the knee and baggy on the hips. And a coat with one of those full skirt whaddyoucall'ems " "Peplums," put in Ruby, placidly. "Sure. And the girls'll be wild about it. And the words!" he began to sing, gratingly off-key: "Put on your sky clothes, Put on your fly clothes And take a trip with me. We'll sail so high Up in the sky We'll drop a bomb from Mercury."
He would tell her, for the dozenth time, and play it over, she humming, off-key, in his wake. The relation between them was more than that of mother and son. It was a complex thing that had in it something conjugal.
"It's none of business of you old people." The old lady withdrew in silence. The old man is heard singing "utai" in the off-key voice. "Utai," I think, is a stunt which purposely makes a whole show a hard nut to crack by giving to it difficult tunes, whereas one could better understand it by reading it. I cannot fathom what is in the mind of the old man who groans over it every night untired.
John listened and distinguished the notes of the father's whistling and smiled to himself as he recognized it as an off-key variation of "The Merry Widow Waltz." Mrs. Sprockett, still sobbing, and Mrs. Gallant, with her arm around her, emerged from the house. "I'm going to keep Mrs. Sprockett company until she can rest," Mrs. Gallant explained.
I knew it was just about time for some kind of an off-key noise from you, you grouchy old leftover. Just because you graduated from one of those paradises in pants, where they import a carload of girls from all over the country to one dance a year and worry along the rest of the time with chorus girls and sweet young town girls who began bringing students up by hand about the time Wm.
He informed her that she looked like a kid, and that that was some classy little gown, and it wasn't every woman who could wear that kind of thing and get away with it. It took a certain style. Hattie smiled, and hummed off-key to the tune the orchestra was playing, and Ed told her it was a shame she didn't do something with that voice. "I have something to tell you," said Hattie.
Things were getting blurry and disconnected, and never improved. He did remember singing, probably off-key, and later hanging onto Hovan's arm for support. Hovan felt a tug on his sleeve and looked down to see a silly grin on Steve's upturned face.
He also "took" Kelly's pulse and noted his respirations, entering all this information on his record. "Any pain anywhere, Kelly?" "Sorra the bit," promptly rejoined the soldier. "You're just a little off-key," went on the hospital steward, with a professional air. "Not much; still, you'd better have some medicine." "I can't take salts," protested Kelly. "They make me sea-sick.
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