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"She means that the ruined steak was further enhanced by mushrooms," I explained in response to Von Gerhard's bewildered look. We marched into the house, trying not to appear like sneak thieves. Max, pipe in mouth, surveyed us blandly. "Fine color you've got, Dawn," he remarked. "There is such a thing as overdoing this health business," snapped Norah, with a great deal of acidity for her.
Ben isn't a bit of a sneak; that's why I like him." "Have you ever found him sly or untrue in any way?" asked Miss Celia, lowering her voice. "No; he's as fair and square a fellow as I ever saw. Little bit low, now and then, but he doesn't mean it, and wants to be a gentleman, only he never lived with one before, and it's all new to him. I'll get him polished up after a while."
During the progress of the works, an impudent Midge, one of the Tachina-flies, who feeds her family on the victuals amassed by the Bee, hovers in front of the galleries. Does she penetrate to the cells and lay her eggs there in the mother's absence? I could never catch the sneak in the act. It is possible, though I cannot say for certain.
"Prescott has some rights in the game, and you know it, too." "You're too fresh!" snapped Bayliss. "You're no good, Bayliss," Darry remarked contemptuously. "You're a sneak and a liar, and so " "And so I shall claim some of your time just as soon as Dick and Dodge have finished," retorted Darry coldly. "Don't forget that, Bayliss, and don't show yourself up by trying to run away."
Sneak, blow, put on airs there in Willard's sumptuous parlors and bar-rooms, or anywhere no explanation shall save you. Meantime, in Washington, among the great persons and their entourage, a mixture of awful consternation, uncertainty, rage, shame, helplessness, and stupefying disappointment. The worst is not only imminent, but already here.
Departing then, he takes a piece of the house with him, and the tenant is not so likely to mistake him when he comes again. Must I confess it at this man so much before the multitude of men, that he was annoyed, even angry, to see this unpleasant son of his asleep in his chair! "The sneak!" he said!
The high chest lifted and lifted, the white, tightened throat choking down the sobs that tried to force themselves to her lips. "She were a damn sneak," were the first words she said, shudderingly covering her face with her hands. "Aw, aw, I ain't a-goin' to have it here.... I can't have it here." She was thinking of the child, now twisting and turning for more sugar.
They could feel neither pulse nor breath. "Carry him in too, poor wretch. And now, Yeo, what is the meaning of all this?" Yeo's story was soon told. He had seen the inn-keeper sneak off at their approach; and expecting some night-attack, he had taken up his lodging for the night in the stable. As he expected, an attempt was made.
The scoundrel is going to run that bar in between the moving parts of the engine and bring about a break-down!” quivered Hal. Sam Truax stood watching for his chance to thrust the steel bar in just where it would inflict the most damage. Then raising the bar quickly, he poised for the blow. “Stop that, you infernal sneak!” roared Jack Benson, bounding into the engine room.
But, if it is my turn to put questions," she went on with some offended dignity, "how is it that the back door is bolted as well as barred and that I have had to sneak in like a malefactor?" "If you please, madame, it is the rule to be very careful about fastening up, since you went away." "Oh, on the principle of locking the stable-door when the steed "
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