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Lanciotto's patience was slowly oozing away, and indeed, it was no longer anything but the fear of provoking his master's anger that restrained him.
However he was not pursued. The basement of Saint Katherine's Dock House is vast in extent and confusing in its plan. Pale shafts of light slant from above into the gloom of its chilly passages. Powell wandered up and down there like an early Christian refugee in the catacombs; but what little faith he had in the success of his enterprise was oozing out at his finger-tips.
Reynard took some honey from the hive and smeared it round Bruin's snout; then he woke him up and said, "See, the honey is oozing out of your snout; you must have eaten it when you were asleep." Some time after this Reynard saw a man driving a cart full of fish, which made his mouth water.
Whilst taking, a stroll in the region of my mountain home one day, my eyes which were by this time almost as highly trained as those of the blacks themselves suddenly fastened upon a thin stream of some greenish fluid which was apparently oozing out of the rocky ground. Closer investigation proved that this was not water.
I saw smoke oozing up the grated hatch the fire was fast creeping forward its foul harbinger was already among them oh! what an awful sight! I could not bear it I could not have borne it in a dream it was too much for human eyes too much for the heart of man. My first impulse was to turn away, and glide down beside my companion who was waiting patiently upon the raft below.
He'd gotten used to the smell, for which he was grateful. That and the fact that Tarlac was beyond the reach of pain were the only good parts he could see. The poison was spreading steadily, but as long as he kept the oozing fluid cleaned off, and kept Tarlac's temperature as low as he could slowly.
"Curse you, will you let go!" "Quick! Quick!" she called out, holding him more tightly. A flood of Billingsgate flowed from his lips. "Let go, or " But before he could in his blind passion strike her or otherwise vent his rage, a revolver was clapped to his face through the window, and, with a look of surprise and terror, his valor oozing from him, he crouched back on the cushions.
Looking into that face, so altered yet still so young, I could not sternly question what had been the evil of that mystic life, which seemed now oozing away through the last sands in the hour-glass. I placed my hand softly on his pulse: it scarcely beat.
No doubt, many who had flocked to Gideon's standard felt their valour oozing out at their finger ends, when they came close to the enemy, and saw their long array across the valley. It must have required some courage to confess being afraid, but the cowards were numerous enough to keep each other in countenance. Two out of three were panic-struck.
Miss Poppit came up the street and Miss Mapp put up her illustrated paper again, with the revolting picture of the Brighton sea-nymphs turned towards the window. Peeping out behind it, she observed that Miss Poppit's basket was apparently oozing with bright venous blood, and felt certain that she had bought red currants. That, coupled with the ice, made conjecture complete.
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