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And she could not recall one not even Jack Barrow with whom she would have felt at ease in a similar situation. She knew that there was a something about her that drew men. If the presence of her had any such effect on Bill Wagstaff, he painstakingly concealed it. And she was duly grateful for that. She had not believed it a characteristic of his type the virile, intensely masculine type of man.
"Keep yer 'ands 'igh," the corporal advised curtly. "Ginger, you search 'im." Propping his rifle against the wall of the trench, its butt on the firing-step just out of water, the private proceeded painstakingly to examine the person of the prisoner; in course of which process he unbuttoned and threw open the gray overcoat, exposing a shapeless tunic and trousers of shoddy drab stuff.
It seemed to her impossible that a man, and a soldier, could bother to think of a girl at such a time. She took his arm firmly and shook him. "Do you know how to blow up a bridge that is mined?" she demanded excitedly. "Yes, pull out the pin," Roderigo replied, "if it is a time fuse," he spoke slowly and painstakingly. "Pin?" Lucia exclaimed impatiently, "I don't understand, you will have to come.
"Naturally I've got it," said the skipper. "What do you want with it?" Sergeant Madden told him. Painfully. Painstakingly. "The tough part," said the skipper, "is making 'em go out an ejector tube. But I've got fourteen good men. Give me two hours for the first batch. We'll make up the second while you're placing them." Sergeant Madden nodded.
"We build our castles, build them not alone for ourselves but for others, and those we love shatter the structure we have so painstakingly reared and on its ruined site make for themselves castles of their own." His eyes were fixed on the narrowing ribbon of sand over which the car sped.
So I write stories, and let other women wash the little Julias' faces," she added, laughing, as Julia, unrecognizably dirty, entered with a soup can full of medicine she had painstakingly concocted to make her daddy well. Connie wanted to see something out of the ordinary.
The note which he wrote painstakingly, lest she might think him lacking in education, he laid upon the table beside Lorraine's plate; then went out, closing the door behind him as quietly as a squeaking door can be made to close. Lorraine, in the other room, heard the squeak and sat up.
"I don't know," said Winn, painstakingly. "In a sense, of course, you haven't had things if you've only seen 'em. Still when you come to think of it, you partly have. Look at the Germans; we've worked considerably into them without seeing 'em, haven't we? What I mean is that I appreciate goodness now; I see its point. Not that I'd have kept clear a moment by myself.
Manufacturers of generators, vision-tape instructors and allied lines. Hoddan bought, painstakingly. Delivery was promised for the next day. "Now," said the clerk, "about the investments you wish to make with the balance?" "I'll want a reasonable sum in cash," said Hoddan reflectively. "But.... well ... I've been told that insurance is a fine, conservative business.
I think you will some day laugh heartily, as you look back upon the misgivings with which you received the first money earned by your pen. If you will only work faithfully and painstakingly, you can do work which will be much better paid than this." Mercy's eyes flashed. "Oh! oh! Then I can have books and pictures, and take journeys," she said in a tone of such ecstasy that Mr.
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