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'Can't you do something for me? she whimpered. 'It is impossible to move Mr. Beamish, Chloe said. Out of a pause, composed of sobs and sighs, the duchess let loose in a broken voice: 'Then I 'm sure I think I think I'd rather have met have met his skeleton! Her sincerity was equal to wit. Beau Beamish shouted.
The grey shadow of the cartonnage, the wrappings and the flesh was fading away into the black background and the white skeleton stood out in sharp contrast. And it certainly was a rather weird spectacle. "You'll lose the bones if you develop much farther," said Dr. Norbury. "I must let the bones darken," Thorndyke replied, "in case there are any metallic objects.
The best sleeping-place that they had up to that time discovered was undoubtedly the grove in which they had found the graves of the shipwrecked crew, but, as Otto truly remarked, it would probably result in uncomfortable dreams if they were to go to sleep in a burying-ground, alongside of a skeleton.
The robber made no reply, but drew from his pocket a bunch of skeleton keys, with which he soon removed the padlock; and the heavy iron door swung upon its rusty hinges with a loud creaking noise. 'D n and blast that noise! growled the robber.
It seems like yesterday.... But I'm afraid the damp has got into the kitchen, ma'am, the range is that neglected " "Ah, Woodview isn't what it was." Mrs. Barfield told how she had buried her husband in the old village church. She had taken her daughter to Egypt; she had dwindled there till there was little more than a skeleton to lay in the grave.
Don't ask me how I know, because there isn't time to tell you. There was no gold there but the two bags that the pirates brought back last night. The the skeleton moved it all out." "My Lawd!" groaned Cookie, staggering backward. "Virginia! I had no idea you were superstitious!" quavered Aunt Jane.
You cannot identify that skeleton, and you will have to prove that that well, you'll have to produce oral testimony, or I'll be given the benefit of the doubt." "I must prove that the man who killed and robbed Oliver Corblay is T. Morgan Carey, and not a stranger masquerading under your name, eh? All right, T. Morgan. I told you I had this story profusely illustrated."
A detective, a revolver, or a well-planned secret flight may be prescribed to the victim. Other real skeletons men possess which do not come of their own misdeeds. One of their friends or one of their family may be the skeleton, or the consciousness of coming and veritable misfortune, pecuniary or what-not.
One was drawn into the circle; and the other was suspected of murdering him, until, at a wizard's suggestion, he went again to the same spot at the end of a year and a day. There he found his friend dancing, and managed to get him out, reduced to a mere skeleton. The first question put by the rescued man was as to the cattle he was driving.
It is a bird so far as its foot and sundry other parts of its skeleton are concerned; it is essentially and thoroughly a bird by its feathers; but it is much more properly a reptile in the fact that the region which represents the hand has separate bones, with claws resembling those which terminate the fore-limb of a reptile.
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