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He walked along, and in a smaller deserted pantry discovered the base of a lift shaft in which some sort of small elevator worked. He was staring at this reflectively, when, for the second time in his adventurous career, a silken cord was slipped tightly about his throat! He was tripped and thrown.
At first she fairly beamed with delight; but by and by she began to look a little perplexed. "I suppose it is a long time since you had your lunches," she said reflectively, "and the air do give one a appetite. P'r'aps you hadn't better have any more tart, Miss Poppy, dear. Hadn't you better try a bit of plain bread and butter?"
He spat, reflectively, and drew the back of a hand across tobacco-stained lips. "And you say you live in Colorado." "I didn't say " "Well, it don't make no difference whether you did or not. I know you don't. Nobody thet lives out here'd try to make Hazard Pass for th' first time in th' middle o' May." "I don't see " "Look up there."
"Never mind those horrible details," advised Tom, reflectively rubbing that portion of his anatomy that had come in contact with George. "Cut along faster." "Well, I was coming to tell Tom that I saw Sam Heller being taken to the doctor's office by old Appleby," went on George. "Get out!" cried Bert, incredulously. "Sam Heller!" gasped Jack.
There are times when I would swear it is not fear of a living thing. That is what makes it disturbing. It is weird distressing. It makes one shiver." The Missioner was silent for some moments, as if lost in a reverie. Then he said, reflectively: "I have seen strange things. I have had many penitents. My ears have heard much that you would not believe.
Min and I were walking in front, talking seriously and reflectively, as befitted the time and place. We were moralising how "Side by side The poor man and the son of pride Lie calm and still." "I wonder," said Min, "whether it is true that the dust of the departed dead blossoms out again in flowers and trees, replenishing the earth?
The work leaped. Wherever he went the men took hold as though reanimated by an electric current. "Dick's a driver," said Welton, reflectively, "and he gets out the logs. But I'm scared he don't take this little job serious." He looked out over the animated scene for a moment in silence. Then he seemed suddenly to remember his companion. "Well, son," said he, "that's called 'sacking' the river.
"Ah," said Pereo, reflectively, warming under the potent fires of flattery and aguardiente, "possibly I HAVE seen him. He was like " "Like none of the dogs thou hast seen about San Antonio," interrupted the landlord. "Scarcely did he seem Americano, though he spoke no Spanish." The old man chuckled to himself viciously.
It has not occurred to her that the cause of their presence may be a human being, though it is a remembrance of this kind that now prompts her to ride forward reflectively. For once in her life, with others around her who were near and dear, she has been herself an object of like eager solicitude to a flock of zopilotes.
"One would think she had been a Queen ever since she lay in the egg." "No," said the head Bee Nurse; "that is not so. But she has had queenly thoughts, and that is the great thing." By Albert W. Tolman "How many bridges have I driven rivets on?" repeated the watchman, reflectively. "Let me see just forty-seven no, forty-eight! I forgot the Mogung cantilever. Never in Burma were you?
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