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When studying his lessons Prince Inga used to go into the grove near his father's palace and climb into the branches of a tall tree, where he had built a platform with a comfortable seat to rest upon, all hidden by the canopy of leaves. There, with no one to disturb him, he would pore over the sheepskin on which were written the queer characters of the Pingarese language.
'Ere I am, me lad, an' 'ere I sits till you give me a piggy-back up to the top me bein' a pore old cove with rheumatiz. I demands it " "You'll what?" growled Joe, hard-breathing and indignant. "Demand it, Joe a pore old feller wi' kidneys an' every other ailment as flesh is hair to a piggy-back, Joe a piggy-back!"
I was going to speak about what we owe to the dead. I won't. We must beat Germany to her knees. We can and we will. Then will come the time for generosity." Phineas Cross struck the table with the flat of his hand. "Boys," he said, "I feel the sweat in every pore of my body. We've nigh done a horrible thing. We are with you, Mr. Orden. But about that little skunk there? How did you find him out?"
There is a fellow leaning against that trellis-work covered with vine- leaves, and eating an ice, while watching the stars. He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts. I continued to wander about among the drinkers and the singers.
I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, but the evidence against you is very strong, and the police must do their duty." "But I am innocent, absolutely innocent," I protested, the perspiration starting from every pore as the full meaning of the charge burst upon me. "What I have told you was correct. I, myself, found her dead " Hexford gave me a look. "Don't talk," he kindly suggested.
And 'twas her wont ever to sit beside this pot, and, all her soul one yearning, to pore upon it, as that which enshrined her Lorenzo, and when long time she had so done, she would bend over it, and weep a great while, until the basil was quite bathed in her tears.
Bending and rising, the swaying bodies gleamed and glistened with greasy dust and sweat, catching the gleams from the lamps and reflecting them in every streaming pore. Straining and tearing, the muscles, at every slightest wish, seemed to exude energy and health, glowing strength and power.
"'If I had ten dollars I'd about call you a lot on that, says Wilkins, 'but I'm a pore cuss an' ain't got no ten dollars, an' what's the use? None of you-alls ain't got no Red Light whiskey- chips you ain't usin', be you? S'pose you-alls gropes about in your war-bags an' sees. I'm needin' of a drink mighty bad.
He thrust a twig of willow through the gills of the fish, and led the way through the woods, and across some fields to a cottage, where a woman came to the door. "Here, missus," he said, "pitch some more wood on the fire. Young squire here stepped into the pond." "Oh, a mercy me!" cried the woman. "Pore dear, he do look bad." "Not he. All right again direckly.
Jessie stood before him, and his worried look seemed to have found a reflection upon her handsome face. "It isn't me. It ain't my fault. It sure ain't, Jess," he declared wistfully. "I've seen it. It's there. My pore claim's jest drowned with it. I'll never find that gold now not if I was to pump a year.
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