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We can get it for seventy-five dollars for a year. We can pull through some way." "Very well, Robert." "I must have rest. All the bounce has gone out of me, Mate," he said with sad lines in his face. "Any extra work here is out of the question. I can only shamble around-an excuse for a man." The wife had ceased to smile.
In less than five minutes we came to a dead halt, the springing and buckling of the clumsy oar being almost unendurable. "Let's shift ends," cried the doctor, who did not relish the blade of the stick, which was cutting into the blade of his shoulder. At last, by stages short and frequent, we managed to shamble down the beach, where we again dumped our cargo, in something of a pet.
He ascended slowly, with a queer shamble, and disappeared into Nelchen's room. "What next, monseigneur?" said Vanringham, half-whispering. "Why, next," said the Prince de Gatinais, "I imagine that he will kill us both. Meantime, as Louis says, the wine is really excellent. So you may refill my glass, my man, and restore to me my vial of little tablets"....
A herd of elephants broke from the bushes, but a few yards ahead of them, and were allowed to shamble off over the plain unmolested. They were not wanted in the trap. Some zebras also broke from the cover soon after and they also were permitted to escape scot free.
It was not until the 7th that a truce was arranged to clear this shamble and then every man in blue was dead save two. Everywhere blood, blood, blood in dark slippery pools dead horses dead men smashed guns, legs, arms, torn and mangled pieces of bodies the earth plowed with shot and shell.
It was a Saturday night, and such a Sabbath as followed! Ex officio professors of Sabbath breaking are all whalemen. The ivory Pequod was turned into what seemed a shamble; every sailor a butcher. You would have thought we were offering up ten thousand red oxen to the sea gods.
Into the car he stumbled, a doddering, red-eyed thing, to drink his coffee as the rest drank it, to shamble to the stove, forgetful of the steaming, rancid air, then like some tired beast, sink to the floor in exhausted, dreamless sleep.
"It is Chigmok, my sister's son, who planned " "But it is thee they will take for punishment and Chigmok also. Now go!" Chief George waited for no second bidding, but began to shamble off across the snow towards his encampment. The two men watched him go, in silence for a little time, and then Stane spoke. "This lake of the Little Moose, where is it?" "About sixteen miles to zee East.
The Dummy, with his patient shamble, made his way out of the ward and stored his polishes for the night in the corner of a scrub-closet. Then, ignoring supper, he went down the stairs, flight after flight, to the chapel.
She took on terribly, and cried and wrung her thin hands when she saw their old foreman told to go to the devil, and shamble off with his cap in his hand as if he were deranged. But she dared not so much as shout a word of comfort after him, for there stood Toad, big and broad, in the store-house door, with a platter of mölje in her hand, and shook her fist after him.
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