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"Will you let us buy the two for a hundred sous?" asked Pauline. The man seemed petrified. "You shall not have it!" I said to her, laughing. "I'll pay ten francs; we should count the emotions in." "Very well," she said, "then I'll pay ten francs, two sous." "Ten francs, ten sous." "Twelve francs." "Fifteen francs." "Fifteen francs, fifty centimes," she said. "One hundred francs."
As the king's divers were thus employed, one of them, Karhownoo by name, perceived a Devil-shark, so called, swimming wistfully toward him from out his summer grotto in the reef. No way petrified by the sight, and pursuing the usual method adopted by these divers in such emergencies, Karhownoo, splashing the water, instantly swam toward the stranger.
He became interested in them. Here, again, Cheyenne had dismounted, possibly to tighten a cinch. There was the stub of a cigarette. Farther along the tracks were lost in the rocky ground of the petrified forest. He had made twenty miles without realizing it.
I have myself picked up in that desert, within the space of a very few square yards, fragments apparently of fossil palms, and of at least two petrified trees distinctly marked as of exogenous growth both by annular structure and by knots.
It proved to be the "free papers" of Aurore the Quadroon the certificate of her manumission regularly signed and attested by her master, Auguste Besancon, and left by him in his will. The astonishment was extreme so much so that the crowd seemed petrified, and preserved silence. Their feelings were on the turn. The effect produced upon Gayarre was visible to all. He seemed covered with confusion.
For one moment her petrified gaze fixed itself there. Then her head dropped upon her breast, and she said: "Oh, de good Lord God have mercy on po' sinful me I'S SOLE DOWN DE RIVER!" Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it. Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Instead of slicing off a lamp of wood, however, the hatchet struck a hard knot, glanced off, and came down on his father's open palm, into which it cut deeply. "Oh! father," exclaimed the poor boy, dropping the axe and standing as if petrified with horror as the blood spouted from the gaping wound, flowed over the fish-box, and bespattered the deck. He could say no more.
He said for me to go away and let him die!" Dal dropped the hammer immediately, and Lollie Mercer sat petrified, with a bonbon halfway to her mouth. For, of course, it was unexpected, finding sentiment of any kind in Bella, and none of them knew about the scene in the den in the small hours of the morning. "Sick!" Aunt Selina said, from a hall chair. "Sick! Where?" "All over," Bella quavered.
I do not remember whether she had received any prize the previous year, but certainly no one expected her to have one now. I was simply petrified with amazement. "Second prize for comedy: Mademoiselle Bernhardt." I had not heard, and was pushed forward by my companions. On reaching the stage I bowed, and all the time I could see hundreds of Marie Lloyds dancing before me.
Seeing from the threatening looks of his captors, that they were about to wreak their vengeance upon him, the miserable wretch besought mercy in abject terms, and charged his master with the most atrocious crimes. His relation of the murder of Sir Rowland petrified even his fierce auditors. One of the cases in Jonathan's museum was now burst open, and a rope taken from it.
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