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"Let's sit down on the grass and finish it; Clover hasn't finished her lunch, either." The little bay horse and the tall, shambling white were amiably straying up and down the narrow borders of the road, never getting very far away.
"Mart, we'll go to the shore and talk to him." When the man saw them descending the hill, he got on his horse and swam the stream. It carried him below, but he was waiting for them when they reached the level. He was tall, shambling, and bony, and roved over them with a pleasant, restless eye. "Good-morning," said he. "Fine weather.
Hour after hour, in the heat of the day or the cool of the evening, the giant Mexican strode on by the side of the two horsemen, sometimes trotting like a dog, more often walking with a shambling, wide-reaching step, tireless as any wild animal.
He followed the tramp as far off as he could and still keep him in sight, and he sometimes thought he had lost him, in the streets that climbed and crooked beyond the Common towards the quarter whither they were going; but he reappeared, slouching and shambling rapidly on, in the glare of some electric lights that stamped the ground with shadows thick and black as if cut in velvet or burnt into the surface.
From Lombardy to Sicily Battista was acclaimed a hero and a martyr; photographs of him on his way to execution an erect and dignified figure, a dramatic contrast to the shambling, sullen-faced soldiery who surrounded him were displayed in every shop-window in the kingdom; all over Italy streets and parks and schools were named to perpetuate his memory.
But if you slacken, if your hand droops, then I shall come again." He turned abruptly away and disappeared, walking with quick, shambling footsteps. Maraton looked after him thoughtfully for several moments, then he continued on his way homewards. The last words had been spoken, the suspense of a few hours was at an end.
They had to cross the station by the under-ground passage and wait twenty minutes for a squalid, shambling local train which took them to Shawport, at the foot of the rise to Hillport. About three months after its rendering of Patience, the Bursley Amateur Operatic Society arranged to give a commemorative dance in the very scene of that histrionic triumph.
As he crested a little rise he saw by the growing light a big brown Isabelline bear shambling along contentedly, seeming to go no pace at all, yet gaining steadily on the sledge that was giving chase. "I will follow as fast as I can!" panted the Râjput lad breathlessly, as Foster-father, Meroo, and Old Faithful, hampered by their greater weight, ran up.
Savage anger and weeping were in her eyes and on her lips, and there was hopeless tragedy in her shambling walk and weak back. In the silence Otis went on: "I saw the poor, dejected creature twice this morning. I couldn't forget her." "Who is she?" asked Mrs. Hall very softly. "Her name is Markham; she's Sam Markham's wife," said Hall.
As he leaned over the insensible man, his light, bleary eyes gleaming with ferocious satisfaction, his lank, shambling figure, and yellow, matted hair hanging in elf locks round his sharp visage, he looked like an unclean bird of prey hovering over a carcase.
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