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Amalia Ivanovna at once declared that her "Vater aus Berlin was a very, very important man, and both hands in pockets went, and always used to say: 'Poof! poof!" and she leapt up from the table to represent her father, sticking her hands in her pockets, puffing her cheeks, and uttering vague sounds resembling "poof! poof!" amid loud laughter from all the lodgers, who purposely encouraged Amalia Ivanovna, hoping for a fight.
"But I have," said she viciously, "and I am still minded to lock your faith to me by that wedding gift you know of." "The thing shall be done," I said. "Before all, the Empress of Atlantis." "Poof! Deucalion, you are too stiff and formal. You ought to be mightily honoured that I condescend to be jealous of your favours. Your hand, sir, please, to help me into the litter.
"If we believe in the power of the good God, shall we not also believe that He can work even miracles at His holy will?" "Poof miracles! the dreams of a vain and silly girl!" scoffed De Baudricourt, "I am sick of her name already!" Then he suddenly turned upon me and spoke. "Jean de Metz, you are a knight of parts.
At that moment a 15-inch shell plunged into the ground just behind the parapet into ground already torn and plastered with shell fragments and, burrowing at least ten feet deep, at last exploded with a muffled roar, setting the earth trembling, shaking in the sides of the battered trench, and sending up tons of soil, which fell in a cascade all round them. "Poof!
And I will testify against you. Tell the people to wait until to-morrow and I pledge myself to find out who did this." "You know who did it?" asked Watusk sharply. "I will not speak until I have proof," Ambrose said warily. "What happened to the men you left on guard?" "They say they play jack-pot with a lantern near the door," said Watusk. "See not'ing. Hear not'ing. Poof! she is all burn!"
Love rules the world, but passion rules love. Love consents, passion demands. Love is law, passion is life. I could go on forever, but I see you do not like my discourse. Zat is because you are already in love, my friend. Poof! You will get over that!" She laughed. Percival was white clear through. He was red-blooded, but at the same time his heart was clean.
My figure also lacks pliancy; there is a stiffness about the side lines. Poof! There's the worst out. But then the contours are bold and delicate, the bright, pure flame of health bites into the vigorous lines, a flood of life and of blue blood pulses under the transparent skin, and the fairest daughter of Eve would seem a Negress beside me! I have the foot of a gazelle!
"That would be disobeying your husband," I said, trying to look stern. "Never mind, I will confess it all to the priest some day, then it will be as if it had never happened. Such a husband poof! If you were not a married man are you married? What a pity! Say again, am I pretty?" "Say first, Cleta, have you a horse a woman can ride on, and if you have one, will you sell it to me?"
"You see," Bobby would say earnestly, as he brushed away at the floor beneath the burner, "you don't know that you are being asphyxiated. You just feel drowsy, and then, poof! you're dead." Adelbert, dozing between tickets, was liable to be roused by a vigorous shaking, to a pair of anxious eyes gazing at him, and to a draft of chill spring air from the open door.
It sometimes struck Roland that she would be more real help in a difficult situation if she could get out of the habit of saying "Poof!" "It is nothing," she said. "No?" said Roland. "We easily out-trick them, isn't it? You make a will leaving your money to the Cause, and then where are they, hein?" It was one way of looking at it, but it brought little balm to Roland. He said so.
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