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Coats and hats that had been discarded were donned, and several men began packing up some bacon and hardtack, while others strapped simple camp outfits back of their saddles, for there was no telling how long they would be obliged to be on the trail. "Come on! Let's go!" cried Jack, and he and his two chums raced for the stables.
"It seems incredible that even drunken soldiers should have attempted an indignity to a party of officers and ladies. Weren't you with them?" "No; we were in the midst of packing, you know, and we weren't going anywhere.
He struck me as being the man in the town for me. "My piker friend had seen me walking over to the sample room with this other man. When I dropped around, after packing up, to say good-bye, he said to me, 'I saw you going over to your sample room with this man down street here. I suppose, of course, you didn't sell him anything?
"Then it might be a service to Holy Church to send them packing. They have a city there, I am told. New New How do they call it?" "New York, sire. They took it from the Dutch." "Ah, New York. And have I not heard of another? Bos Bos " "Boston, sire." "That is the name. The harbours might be of service to us.
Every desire our lascivious lubricity could suggest was carried out to increase our pleasures or renew our exhausted resources, until time warned us again to separate. The next day there was no school time it was spent in packing and preparing for departure. My poor mother took it much to heart she was a most affectionate creature, as innocent as a babe.
By developing romantic intuition from within and packing all knowledge into one picture, the universe might be shown to be, like intuition itself, thoroughly spiritual, personal, and subjective. The fundamental axiom of the new logic was that the only possible reality was consciousness.
Bud turned around and hurried to the nearest drayage company, and ordered a domestic wrecking crew to the scene; in other words, a packer and two draymen and a dray. He'd show 'em. Marie and her mother couldn't put anything over on him he'd stand over that furniture with a sheriff first. He went back and found Marie's mother still there, packing dishes and doilies and the like.
Some days we did not go more than four or five miles, and that was serious work, loading and unloading our canoes, and packing them over the boulders, with only small streams of water curling around between them. We went barefoot most of the time, for we were more than half of the time in the water which roared and dashed so loud that we could hardly heard each other speak.
The weary work of packing had gone on endlessly in the bare rooms of the old Huff house and now Virginia, with two kittens in her arms and the mother cat following behind, was passing it all in review. A solid row of packing boxes, arrayed on the front gallery, awaited the motor truck; and here and there in corners lay piles of discarded treasures that were destined to go to Charley for loot.
These warriors were covering the retreat of their squaws, who were packing up and getting ready for hasty flight. General Carr ordered a charge on the red line. If it were broken, the cavalry was to continue, and surround the village.
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