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If there's anybody to plunge into that erena, the blood be mine; an' I put my hand, without thinkin', ag'in his black shirt-bosom, to hold him back; but he didn't notice, bein' so excited. 'Now, says I, 'jist wait one minute, and you'll see that bull's tail go between his legs.
If anything further had been needed to establish his fame, it would have been found in the fact that he was very rich, wearing diamonds in his shirt-bosom, driving fine horses, and being, in fact, surrounded with all the luxuries that money can procure. Of course, he was a great doctor. How could it be otherwise? And it was enough to know that a Mr. A had seen a Mr. B who knew a Mr.
It was his white shirt-bosom which I had mistaken in the twilight for the spitz dog. He never knew of his peril. I saw my own at a glance, and it appalled me.
A man with a smiling face, dressed in the fashion of the natives of the country, with diamond studs in his shirt-bosom, came up at that moment almost running. He went directly to Ibarra and grasped his hand, saying, "Señor Ibarra, I've been eager to make your acquaintance. Capitan Tiago is a friend of mine and I knew your respected father.
For example, sir, in a dark, low, cross-beamed, panelled room of an old house, let us suppose a dead man, sitting in an arm-chair, with a blood-stain on his shirt-bosom, and let us add to our hypothesis another man, issuing from the house, which he feels to be over-filled with the dead man's presence, and let us lastly imagine him fleeing, Heaven knows whither, at the speed of a hurricane, by railroad!
Poor Mindy Toggs's great thatched head also nodded and lopped unceasingly, and his slobbering chin dipped into his calico shirt-bosom, and he said over and over, in his strange voice like a parrot's, the only two words he was ever known to speak, "Simon Basset, Simon Basset." Mindy Toggs was sixty years old, it was said. His past was as dim as his intellect.
He wore a flashy brown-colored frock-coat with the collar laid very far back, a foppish white vest exposing his shirt-bosom nearly down to the waistbands of his pants, which were of gray stripes.
"Deus meus, Deus meus, quare dereliquiste me," said his troubled eyes, while his lips muttered "Linintikan!" Vainly he coughed, fumbled at his shirt-bosom, stood first on one foot and then on the other, but found no answer. "Come now, what have we?" urged the professor, enjoying the effect of his reasoning. "Bibinka!" whispered Juanito Pelaez. "Bibinka!"
If any accident should happen to the boat, it was doubtful if there were persons on board who could draw up and pass the proper resolutions of thanks to the officers. I heard one of these Irish gentlemen, whose satin vest was insufficient to repress the mountainous protuberance of his shirt-bosom, enlightening an admiring friend as to his idiosyncrasies.
There were a few trunks heaped together in one place, with a porter standing guard over them; a solitary guest was buying a cigar at the newspaper stand in one corner; another friendless creature was writing a letter in the reading-room; the clerk, in a seersucker coat and a lavish shirt-bosom, tried to give the whole an effect of watering-place gayety and bustle, as he provided a newly arrived guest with a room.
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