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She quickly stooped down, grasped the Candy Rabbit by his ears, and lifted him, dripping wet, out of the bathtub of water. "Oh, he's soaked through, poor thing!" murmured Dorothy. "Do you s'pose he's spoiled?" asked Mirabell. "I I hope not," said Madeline with a catch in her voice, as if she were going to cry. "I guess I got him out in time." "I think so, too."
It was rather an uncommon thing, so late in the season; for the lightning, like other brilliant visitors, usually appears in Oldport during only a month or two of every year. The coach set me down at my own door, so soaked that I might have floated in. I peeped into Severance's room, however, on the way to my own.
The strawberry, which belongs to the rose family, is similarly formed, and few people would believe, when they swallow a single strawberry, that they have eaten thirty or forty fruits." For an hour we scarcely exchanged a word, but walked silently on, soaked with perspiration, and scarcely able to breathe the heated air. "I think there is a glade," murmured Lucien, pointing to the left.
He extracted from his trousers pocket the water soaked lump that had been the New York newspaper. The page containing the sensational announcement of the engagement in high life was quite undecipherable. Being on the outside of the folded paper, it had rubbed to a pulpy blur.
When the hemp has reached the proper point, that is to say, when it has been sufficiently soaked in running water and half dried on the bank, it is carried to the yards of the different houses; there they stand it up in little sheaves, which, with their stalks spread apart at the bottom and their heads tied together in balls, greatly resemble, in the dark, a long procession of little white phantoms, planted on their slim legs and walking noiselessly along the walls.
"Yes, sir," said Rogers, after a moment. "Is it a man's or a woman's handkerchief?" "Oh, a woman's undoubtedly." The jury examined it and so did we. It was a small square of fine cambric with no mark that I could see, soaked through and through with blood unquestionably a woman's handkerchief. Then Rogers told the rest of the story how he had summoned aid and informed the police. "Now, Mr.
I suppose after fifty years or so the very ground has become soaked with knowledge, and every particle of air in the vicinity is crammed with useful information. Graduation will surely take me a little out of "the hollow," make me a little more like the soaring eagle, gazing at the whole wide world beneath him while he wheels "slow as in sleep."
Now trees showed grim and towering for an instant, then gone again; now their eyes were upon the track, the pools, the rugged ground, the soaked meadow-grass; half a dozen times the river glimmered on their right, turbid and forbidding. Once there shone in the circle of light the eyes of some beast pig or stag; seen and vanished again.
"This young man must be a Catholic Luther!" said the bishop. And, walking on tip-toe, he went to pour himself out a glorious glass of Madeira, in which he soaked some sweet cake, made in the form of a crozier.
It was some time before in his weak, half-starved state the poor boy could make them understand, for he had completely broken down: and it was not until he had swallowed a little biscuit soaked in wine, as he lay with his head in Mrs Beane's lap, that he at last told hysterically of how he had managed to crawl by the French outposts and reached his friends.
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