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"There'll be no sneaking around to shoot this well, I can promise you that, for we'll have her opened in the daylight, squarely, or not at all." Jim and Dick could hardly believe that which they heard.
He seemed, from her statements, to have been decidedly erratic in his movements, mode of life and choice of climes. He evidently caused her a great deal of trouble and anxiety, and I felt a kind of sneaking sympathy for his memory. One young fellow stayed with her five years; he was, etc.
And there can be no blame attached to any of us because of the loss of the boat." "Ah, that's all right," grumbled the warrant officer on the raft. "But think of those miserable Huns, sneaking away in here and dropping a mine in a channel where nothing but small craft dare sail." "Excursion steamers from Charleston use this channel," Mr. MacMasters said. "I know it to be a fact." "Ah!
The body drew in a quick breath and stirred. Dukovski stuck his elbow into it. It raised a hand, stretched itself, and lifted its head. "Who is sneaking in here?" asked a hoarse, heavy bass. "What do you want?" Dukovski raised the candle to the face of the unknown, and cried out.
Pertell has promised to give me a chance. He's organizing some new companies. "Just as soon as I get my patent perfected he's promised to put it on his machines. Then I'm going with his company." "Did you hear any more about that man you say tried to steal your invention?" asked Alice. "Who, Simp Wolley? Oh, yes, he's been sneaking around after me, and I told him what I thought of him.
I find over the Essex countryside, which has been for more than a year and a half a highway for Zeppelins, a new and curious admiration for them that has arisen out of these very disasters. Previously they were regarded with dislike and a sort of distrust, as one might regard a sneaking neighbour who left his footsteps in one's garden at night.
"There he goes, sneaking down that coulee! He'll get into one of those washouts and hide, if we don't head him off. I'll drive around so you can get another shot at him," cried Chip. He headed up the hill again until the coyote, crouching low, was fully revealed. "That's a fine shot. Throw another shell in, quick! You better kneel on the seat, this time the horses know what's coming.
He will do anything against his adversary which he thinks he can do safely, by sneaking, and when Jake Elliott threw himself down on his pile of moss he did not mean to go to sleep. He meant to revenge himself on Sam before morning, and at the same time to make it impossible for the expedition to go on.
This was instantly fired at him; and the animal, after rocking about a while on his spread legs, fell gently to the earth. Of course he had proved himself too tough to be eatable by anything but prairie-wolves, and we were about to leave him as he lay. Ike, however, had no idea of gratifying these sneaking creatures at so cheap a rate.
'You must believe me when I tell you that I am a thief a vile, low, cunning, sneaking thief as soon as I've had a glass or two. Take me somewhere where I may tell the truth on oath.
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