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One hope he had, that her shelf might be above high-water mark, in which case patient endurance would be all that was needed until the tide ran out again. A glance at the wall of cliff behind Mary proved this hope to be futile, for the mark of the water showed above her head, and if she were not rescued speedily, he could only stand by and see her drown.
After the door had been slammed three times in one evening by one man, the last slam being so forcible as to shake two bottles from the shelf and to crack the door itself, he became positive that his suspicions were correct, and so was very careful to smile and take it as a joke.
A small table in the centre of the room, covered with a piece of cotton cloth, a few chairs, a broken mirror, and on a shelf that stood trimly in the corner, a few glasses and decanters, completed the furniture of the apartment. On the table at which the outlaw sat, lay his pistols a huge and unwieldy, but well-made pair.
He shook the bottle gently, to facilitate the dissolution of the powder. A few particles of the poison clung to the lip of the bottle; he wiped off these, not with a napkin, a pile of which lay on the shelf beside him, but with his own handkerchief. He replaced the bottle in its accustomed place, and seating himself by the fire, awaited the course of events.
"I thoroughly understand locomotives," said he, as he pointed to a shelf full of all the works upon the subject which he had been able to discover. "Left dark among mine enemies." Long ago, the Fairies often stole children; they chose the prettiest, and carried them to Fairyland the Kingdom of Tyrnanoge, leaving hideous Changelings instead.
She was not accustomed to entertaining Rufus in his father's absence. "Have a glass of mulberry wine!" she suggested. "Columbine, run and fetch it, dear! It's in the right-hand corner, third shelf, of the cupboard under the stairs. I'm sure you're very welcome," she added to Rufus, "but you must excuse me, for I've got to see to Mr. Knight's dinner." "That's all right, Mother," said Rufus.
A few feet below him Lynde Oliver was lying on a mass of mossy soil which was apparently on the verge of slipping over a sloping shelf of rock, below which was a sheer drop of thirty feet to the cruel boulders below.
If, however, there is any doubt on this point, it will be far better to have your own special table, and shelf or so above it, where the utensils required for your own personal use in delicate cooking can be arranged. In any kitchen not less than two tables are required: one for all rough work, preparing meat, vegetables, &c, and dishing up meals; the other for general convenience.
She stood him in the tub and started dashing water over him, tearing off his clothes between the splashes. 'Here, that tin of mustard there on the shelf! she shouted to me. She knocked the lid off the tin on the edge of the tub, and went on splashing and spanking Jim. It seemed an eternity. And I? Why, I never thought clearer in my life.
"What ails me?" she said aloud, and got up to kindle a light. She was amazed to see that it was seven o'clock, and long past her supper hour. As she took from the clock shelf the key to the barn, some one rapped at the back door and came through the cold kitchen with friendly familiarity. It was Jenny, a shawl over her head, her face glowing with the cold, and in her mittened hands a flat parcel.
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