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He made no sign, indeed, of having heard anything, but stood hacking at the pine railing with his pocket-knife. He was silent so long that at last Peterson arose to go. Bannon shut his knife and wheeled around to face him. "Hold on, Pete," he said. "We'd better talk this business out right here." "Talk out what?" "Oh, I guess you know. Why don't we pull together better?
As he spoke he made as if to rush forward; the other laid steadying fingers on his arm. "Hold hard a bit, sir," he said. "Not quite yourself; besides, they're well out of sight now. No use running after." Steele moved, grasped the railing leading up the front step; his brow throbbed; a thousand darting pains shot through his brain.
Cram her full; pile in more wood, and don't heed the smoke!" and he suddenly appeared with the pans full of buns, which were quickly baked. Then, leaning over the railing of the barge, he cried "If you would have your tea now, ladies, while the buns are hot, and would pass along your tea-kettle, I have some tea ready for you."
His walk brought him to a broad stream, which flashed through the wood like a line of light. He paused on a suspension bridge, and leaning over the railing, gazed up the river into the distance, at the horizon and its trees, delicate and feathery in their nakedness against the sky.
Day by day, in my little walks, I passed a large square encompassed by a low wall and lofty iron railing, in which several hundreds of boys and girls with rosy cheeks and light hearts, sported, and sang like fairies holding festival.
When they had climbed the narrow stairs and reached the floor of the structure, resting their elbows on the railing, they beheld the broad level plain outstretched before them, at the foot of the slope of the embankment. "You see, Paris is burning." It was in the neighborhood of ten o'clock. The fierce red glare that lit the southern sky was ever mounting higher.
Lilian, clutching the railing so spasmodically that a bruising hurt was left in her finger-ends for days, gazed horror-stricken at a yellow-haired, wild-eyed giant whom she recognized as the man who was to be her husband. He was swinging a great club, and fighting furiously and calmly with a shaggy monster that was bigger than any bear she had ever seen.
On the chest of one a china door-knob was suspended, on the chest of another the brass wheel of an alarm clock. Facing them, clinging to the railing of the veranda for support, stood the sick white man. Any one of them could have knocked him over with the blow of a little finger.
But it's also true that I'd been attracted to him from the very first minute, and that it thrilled me when I first touched his hand, there by the park railing, and afterward when he took me in his arms." Since his last interruption he had sat motionless, even breathing small in the extremity of his effort not to hinder.
They were in the midst of the thickest forest, and up to this time all had retired, as they did on this occasion. The yaks were enclosed in a railing made of small trees, so as to protect them, and the two mattresses within the covered body made comfortable beds for all.