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Him Sir Siegfried spied, and the bold man saw him, too. Each began to watch the other in hostile wise. Who it was, who stood on guard, I'll tell you now; a gleaming shield of gold lay by his hand. It was the good King Liudegast, who was guarding here his band. The noble stranger pricked along in lordly wise. Now had Sir Liudegast espied him with hostile eye.
And with the hare in her mouth, carefully poised by the middle of the back, she was slowly advancing towards her master, when a stranger, well dressed and well mounted, who had joined the party unperceived during the course, suddenly called "Venus!" And Venus started, pricked up her ears as if to listen, and stood stock still. "Venus!" again cried the horseman. "Jesse!
As Bill slipped into his pajama coat something pricked him. The pocket was pinned together with a large, rusty pin. He drew it out and from the pocket took a folded envelope. "What in time is this?" he murmured to himself, then smiled as he reflected that it must be a little love letter from his mother. He winked mischievously at her picture on his wrist as he tore open the envelope.
When the passengers were not looking she stealthily removed the more prominent blooms from her hat and placed them in the basket, where she covered them with her handkerchief. Then she fell to reflecting again, and in looking downwards a thorn of the rose remaining in her breast accidentally pricked her chin.
And I say this with the greater sincerity; for in my secret conscience, when I think of the affair at this distance of time, I am pricked not a little in reflecting how I had previously crowed and triumphed over poor Mr Hickery, in the matter of his mortification at the time of Miss Peggy Dainty's false step.
And this little thing had pricked her admiration with a certain needle-like suspicion a suspicion that the young man might be not wholly oblivious of his merits as a spectacle. Yet this was no matter to permit in one's mind. For Nancy of the lengthened skirts and the massed braids was now a person of reserves.
"Business, business," complained Agias; "my master's a grain merchant with dealings at Puteoli, and he has sent me thither, to make some payments." Phaon pricked up his ears. "The Via Appia is more direct, but there is less chance of robbers by the Via Prænestina." "I hope your master can trust you not to lighten his pouch on the way," remarked Phaon.
Uncle Jaw pricked up his ears and was all attention, eying with eager looks the packet; but, to his disappointment, the deacon deliberately laid it into his desk, shut and locked it, and resumed his seat. "Now, railly," said Uncle Jaw, "I should like to know the particulars."
For all my guerdon I beg you and fervently I pray you, grant me to deal the first blow in the battle! The duke replied, 'I grant it. And Taillefer pricked on at full gallop, on before all the others he pressed.
"With me!" exclaimed Philip. "Certainly! Thelma's soul is as open as daylight you shouldn't have had any secret from her, however trifling. She's not a woman 'on guard, she can't take life as the most of us do, in military fashion, with ears pricked for the approach of a spy, and prepared to expect betrayal from her most familiar friends.
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