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The excitement in the bay had not been heard, and there was no one besides themselves moving about the pier. Clancy, carrying the water-soaked satchel, slopped and splashed his way to the street, followed by his two companions. On the sidewalk the motor wizard paused for a final word with Burton. "What are you going to do, now that your two pals have passed you up?" Clancy asked.
"I got into the desert, and had hard times awful for a while. I hadn't enough to eat, and I didn't know whether I'd die by hunger or fever or Indians or snakes." "Oh, you were seeing snakes!" said Tim, grimly. "Not the kind you mean; I hadn't anything to drink " "No, you never did drink, I remember just was crooked, and slopped over women. Well, about the snakes?"
He slapped the gentle-eyed Ramon on the shoulder. Pancake batter hissed as it slopped over on the stove. "Cheer up, amigo!" he cried! "Had a good look at the sun this mornin'?" "No, señor. I have made the breakfast, si." "Well, she's out there, shinin' right down on Arizona." "The señora?" queried Ramon, puzzled. "No; the sun.
Grump's room, declared that the practice was an absurd, newfangled, dandified folly, and daily cursed the laundress who slopped the staircase by which he had to pass. Grump, now much more than half a century old, had indeed never used the luxury in question. He had done without water very well, and so had our fathers before him.
For three months Carl took seriously the dirtiest things in the world. He worked sixteen hours a day for eight dollars a week, cleaning cuspidors, scrubbing the floor, scattering clean sawdust, cutting the more rotten portions off the free-lunch meat. As he slopped about with half-frozen, brittle rags, hoboes pushed him aside and spat on the floor he had just cleaned.
Ross did not show his surprise. If Ashe was talking on those terms, then he was intending to do more than just lurk around a little beyond the gate; he was really planning to pick up alien speech patterns, eventually assume an alien agent identity! "Gordon!" Karara appeared between two of the lace trees. She came so hastily that the contents of the two cups she carried slopped over.
And now, since writing the last paragraph and going through the material half a dozen times more, I have about concluded, or perhaps worked myself up to the conclusion, that if a judicious blue pencil were to take from it what could be attributed to imperfect means of communication, and what could be considered as having slopped over from the medium, there would be a pretty substantial and not unbeautiful residuum which might, without straining anything, be taken for a description by George Eliot, of the heaven she would find if, as begins to seem possible, she and the rest of us, have or are to have heavens to suit our respective tastes.
"She's playing he's her little boy," explained Mary, making the most of the sensation of being an actor in a real drama. "She fed him his soup and slopped him, but he took me up sharp when I tried to stop her. He acts as if she's got him clean bewitched." "Well!" exclaimed Mrs. West, as Persis looked at her dumbly. "I never expected to live to see that Scripture fulfilled.
There were no luxurious, steam-propelled hotels in the Canadian trade just then, and, loaded deep with railway metal as she was, she slopped the green seas in everywhere, and rolled her streaming sides out almost to her bilge. She also shivered and rattled horribly when her single screw swung clear and the tri-compound engines ran away.
The water slopped over the edges of the buckets and wet some of the bread as the cook pushed the boat out toward Falk; but the men in the pinnace watched it eagerly, and when it floated to the end of the painter, they clutched for it so hastily that they almost upset the precious buckets.
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