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Lynde was plunging for effect. He lost a thousand and fifty dollars at one clip. "Oh, all that good money!" exclaimed Aileen, mock-pathetically, as the croupier raked it in. "Never mind, we'll get it back," exclaimed Lynde, throwing two one-thousand-dollar bills to the cashier. "Give me gold for those." The man gave him a double handful, which he put down between Aileen's white arms.
Each time it does so an egg is doubtless deposited; but the operation is so rapid, and takes place under conditions so unfavourable for observation, that I have never once been enabled to see the oviduct at work. I can only judge of the advent of the eggs by the movements of the end of the abdomen, which is immersed more deeply with a sudden plunging movement.
I rowed you in among the rushes; you wet the sleeve of your dress plunging your arm in. I remember it, that white plump arm." "Get along with you." "I wanted to make a sketch of you leaning over the boatside with your lapful of water-lilies; I wish I had." "I wish you had, too; you wrote a little poem instead. It was very pretty, but I should have liked the picture better.
Seeing that no good could be done by plunging into the midst of his enemies, who had their instructions from the corregidor of Toledo, Borrow decided to return to Aranjuez. This he did, on the way narrowly escaping assassination at the hands of three robbers. The next morning he was rejoined by Lopez, who had been released.
The cause of the merriment was speedily explained when they looked towards the stables, and beheld Potts struggling for mastery with a stout Welsh pony, who showed every disposition, by plunging, kicking, and rearing, to remove him from his seat, though without success, for the attorney was not quite such a contemptible horseman as might be imagined.
Whatever agency had held the Vandercook building aloft had now released its uncanny grip on the building, and thousands of tons of brick and mortar, of stone and steel, were plunging down in a mass from five thousand feet above the Hudson. The same force had also released the ill-fated men and women who had been carried aloft with the building.
Several days passed on, and as no improvement took place, the earl, who began to find the stings of conscience too sharp for further endurance, resolved to try to deaden the pangs by again plunging into the dissipation of the court.
There was a great clatter, and Gilbert chased her in, breathless and scolding, but the tongues were hushed before papa, and no more was heard than that the tooth was better, and had not kept him awake. Lucy seemed disposed to make conversation, overwhelming Albinia with needless repetitions of 'Mamma dear, and plunging into what Mrs. Bowles and Miss Goldsmith had said of Mr.
The Indian upon the stump slowly turned his head; the captain saw that he was King Philip with his hair cut short. At the fall of the gun hammer King Philip leaped from the stump, and plunging down a steep bank, was gone. Captain Church crossed the river in pursuit, but did not catch him. The next day he came upon the beaten sachem's forlorn camp.
The discovery of the awful state of his country, while he was engaged in preaching in the villages round Bedford induced him, in the humble hope of doing good, to become an author, and with trembling anxiety he issued to the world the first production of his pen, in 1656, under the title of Some Gospel Truths Opened According to the Scriptures; and, as we shall presently find, it met with a rough reception, plunging him into controversy, which in those days was conducted with bitter acrimony.
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