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But when we come to real life, the poker is in the fore, and, ten to one, if we would grasp it, we find it too hot to hold; lucky for us, if it is not white-hot, and we do not have to leave the skin of our hands sticking to it when we fling it down or drop it with a loud or silent cry! I am frightened when I find into what a labyrinth of human character and feeling I am winding.
Their skin is brown, they have snub noses but resolute eyes, and they are of fine proportions, though they rarely exceed five feet five inches in height. Beyond the "jawat," a long piece of cloth which hangs down between their legs, they wear nothing, if I except their many and varied ornaments. They wear a great variety of earrings.
"Let him be, Bud, he's having all he can do to think about these shots, as it is. The things for us to do now is to pick them out of him." "We'll let him count 'em ez they come out. That'll help take his mind off his troubles, but he'll hev ter hev a great head fer figgers." They went to work on him with their penknives, as most of the shot were just beneath the skin.
His skin was yellow, like a mulatto's." A young American doctor to whom Barbara had been talking looked up. "Jaundice after malaria!" he remarked. "I don't know West Africa, but I was at Panama! Was malaria all the rest had got?" "It was not," the passenger replied meaningly. "However, if you know Panama " "Did you try to tow the ship?" Barbara interrupted. "The mate thought it impossible.
They do not all take fees from both parties in a suit; nor extort more than their right; nor go prying about into other people's business in order to entangle them in the webs of the law; nor league with the justice to fleece one side and skin the other. It is not every alguazil that is in collusion with thieves and vagabonds, or keeps a decoy-duck in the shape of a mistress, as your master did.
Mary Hope stopped screaming, both hands held tightly over her mouth. Lance was already on his way to the house, carrying Mother Douglas like a sleeping child in his arms. And the rain came, a white curtain of water that drenched them to the skin in the first ten seconds.
I will bring some liniment. Fortunately, the skin is not broken. Mr. Grubb, won't you please see what you can do with the tent? I fear it is seriously damaged." "I want to look at those halters, first, if you can wait a minute."
The colour of her skin was, indeed, unusually dark, but that fact did not interfere with the classic delicacy of her features, or the natural sweetness of her expression. The order of progress in narrow places was such that Manuela rode behind Pedro and in front of Lawrence, Quashy bringing up the rear.
I hate strangers, and society, and all that sort of thing. I'm not fit for it like you." "Then what do you mean to do get married and live in the country?" Bottles coloured a little through his sun-tanned skin a fact that did not escape the eyeglass of his observant brother. "No, I am not going to get married, certainly not."
If a Dog is apt to fasten, and run into a Bear, he is not good, for the best Dog in Europe is nothing in their Paws; but if ever they get him in their Clutches, they blow his Skin from his Flesh, like a Bladder, and often kill him; or if he recovers it, he is never good for any thing after.
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