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And Ronny well, Ronny isn't just any of those things. He's just a boy, full of every sort of human notion that's opposite to mine. And I'm crazy for him. Say, Bud, I love him better than anything in life. If anything happened to that boy, why, I guess all that's worth while in me would die plumb out." He paused.
Almost as she spoke there sounded the sharp crack of a rifle, and a ball passed through the top of the wagon, so near that it made the ponies jump. "Put up your hands all three of you folks down there!" commanded an angry voice. "The magazine of this rifle is plumb full and I can shoot straight. D'ye get me? Hands up!" "My goodness!" gasped Pratt Sanderson.
Which them two days of thirst terrorises me to sech degrees that for one plumb year tharafter, I never meets up with water when I don't drink a quart, an' act like I'm layin' in ag'in another parched spell. "Or I might relate how I stops over one night from Springer on my way to the Canadian at a Triangle-dot camp called Kingman.
"Our sublime little Uncle, of the waxy complexion, with the proudly staring fish-eyes, no wit in him, not much sense, and a great deal of pride, stands dreadfully erect, 'plumb and more, with the Garter-leg advanced, when one goes to see him; and his remarks are not of an entertaining nature.
We seem to have landed plumb in the nest of a German raiding party," rattled off the electrician glibly as he passed the receivers to his commander for a verification of his report. McClure snatched the apparatus and clamped it to his ears. For a moment he listened to the mechanical whirr of churning propellers, borne into his senses through the submarine telephone. "Great!" he exclaimed.
All the world's coarse thumb And finger failed to plumb... Papa was adding, with an unconscious frown: "The cash is in the bank, if your mother must have it. I'd laid it by for something else, though make some repairs at the Works. Come in.... I reckon I've staved off ..." Considered from one angle, these fragmentary words might have been illuminating; but Cally did not even hear them.
When he happened to meet you on the way, he would be plumb tickled, for that cinched things proper for him. You would be a witness nobody could get away from." "And what about their hawsses? Did they bring the bronchs in the car, too?" drawled Keller, an amused flicker in his eyes. The others, who had been swimming into their deductions so confidently, were brought up abruptly.
"They're palaverin' about the lights," said Texas to his companions. "Can't jest figure the deal under Abe's illumination. They're all plumb anxious, but they's nobody wishful to make himself conspicuous." "Oh, why doesn't Abe come; why doesn't he come?" exclaimed Barbara. "Av the saints will only kape thim cholos considerin', the lad may git here yet."
"We passes th' homes of all Bull's live enemies, an' th' graves of his dead ones, an' gets to a rock, where we c'n sit an' study natur' a bit, before we turns back. An' thinkin' it's safe t' do so, I lets go o' Bull's halter. An' while I'm studyin' an' takin' a nip from a flask I happens t' have in my jeans, I forgets Bull for a minit, an' when I looks up, he's plumb absent.
We found him on the verge of the Bay, in the small glade where I had left my horse the day I followed Don alone down the canyon. Jim was engaged in binding up the leg of his horse. The baying of the hounds floated up over the rim. "What's up?" queried Jones. "Old Sultan. That's what," replied Jim. "We run plumb into him. We've had him in five trees.
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