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He tore at the imprisoned foot, ripping the moccasin and tearing at the road bed. The rails began to sing. Far down the track they saw a star of light Rhoda's heart stood still. This, then, was to be the end! After all the months of distant menace, death was to be upon her in a moment! This, then, was to be the solution!
"I've got so many expenses. Your father...." and he was silent. "Cousin Jolyon's got an awfully jolly place. I went down there with Uncle Soames ripping stables." "Ah!" murmured James profoundly. "That house I knew how it would be!" And he lapsed into gloomy meditation over his fish-bones.
"I can't fly far, I warn you, but it's simply ripping while I'm on the wing!" "Judy likes to see herself go by in the mirror," smiled Elinor leniently. "I suppose that's the literary mind." "Literary grandmother!" exclaimed Patricia scornfully. "She's a conceited chicken that thinks she's a nightingale because she can peep louder than some.
What a ripping good joke: I'm glad you came here the first hour after your landing in New York." "What shall I call myself? I have it a romantic name, which will be worth laughing over later let me see Helene Marigold. Is that flowery enough?" "Shirley will be sure you are an actress when he hears that. Mum is the word, may you never have stage fright and never miss a cue Here he comes now!"
She was thinking of him. "Keep back! They can never gain the ledge!" she shrieked. And then, above the din of the fusillade, the yells of the assailants and the bawling of the wounded, there came through the air a screaming, tearing, ripping sound which drowned all others.
It never could have entered the bay for the same reason, but for the resistless power of a field that extended leagues out into the ocean, where, acted on jointly by wind and tide, it came down with a momentum that was resistless, ripping and tearing the edges of the field as if they had been so much freshly turned up mould.
"I say, won't it be ripping when the summer comes along," he said, as they drove along on the top of a 'bus to Soho she had herself suggested that they should not be so extravagant as to go by cab. "We shall be able to spend every Sunday on the river. We'll take our luncheon in a basket." She smiled slightly, and he was encouraged to take her hand. She did not withdraw it.
I wished to follow, and see the ceremony, but the horse of one of my companions had become frightened, and was tearing off toward the town; and, having thrown his rider, and got one of his hoofs caught in the tackling of the saddle, which had slipped, was fast dragging and ripping it to pieces.
A pictured face, the refrain of a song, may chance to stir the pulse of memory, but a remembered fragrance intangible, unseen seems to penetrate to the inmost soul itself, ripping asunder the veil which the years between have woven and refashioning the dead past for us as vividly as though it had never died.
When Eileen entered, Linda smiled quizzically and then broke into an unaffected ejaculation. "Ripping!" she cried. "Why, Eileen, you're perfectly topping." Eileen's face flamed with delight. She was a challenging little figure. None of them was accustomed to her when she represented anything more substantial than curls and ruffles.
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