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Now we were back at Mrs. Handsomebody's having tea with a double portion of jam; being scrubbed and brushed, and warned of our behaviour, sliding on the slippery soles of new boots; sniffing the fresh linen of clean handkerchiefs; watching Mrs. Handsomebody tie her bonnet strings with trembling fingers.
I've been meanin' to tell you I don't come to church now; since my son was killed, I don't seem to 'ave the 'eart to go anywhere 'aven't been to a picture-palace these three months. Any excitement starts me cryin'." "I know; but you'd find rest in church." Mrs. Soles shook her head, and the small twisted bob of her discoloured hair wobbled vaguely. "I can't take any recreation," she said.
Stopping at the trailing edge of the hull, where it enclosed the four rockets, the big Venusian squatted on his heels, making certain the soles of his space boots stayed in contact with the metal of the hull. He peered over the edge and braced himself in a position where he could observe the individual rocket exhausts. "O.K., Roger!" he called into his intercom. "Open up number one."
Patented, waterproof soles are highly objectionable. If you can have your shoes made to order see to it that the sole consists of nothing but leather-indeed a single layer of good sole leather is most satisfactory.
Then Beltane started, and turning, looked at Roger, whereupon Roger immediately crossed his fingers. "Ha, Roger, I was deep in my thoughts, what would ye?" "Master, hast ever a pricking in the hairs of thy head?" "Not I." "Dost ever feel a tingling in the soles of thy feet?" "Not so, in truth." "Why then a shivering, quaking o' the back-bone?" "Roger, man, what troubles thee now?"
The learned Selim was soon brought. "Selim," said the caliph to him, "they say you are very learned; now just look into this manuscript, and see whether you can read it; if you can, I will give you a new dress; but if you cannot, you shall have twelve boxes on the ear, and twenty-five blows on the soles of your feet, for having been called, without reason, Selim the Learned."
There was something indescribably knowing in the collar of his coat, and the fresh blacking on a pair of boots with gaping soles, to which no language can do justice.
In truth, during the whole epidemic, it seemed as though mere medicine was of no avail whatever, and that really the methods and means used by the natives, independent of the doctors, did all the good that was done. First, she got out of the store some mackerel and bound them, just as they came out of the barrel, brine and all, to the soles of the feet of both the mother and children.
Perceiving one day, before the master arrived, that Jamie was shivering with cold, I made way for him where I stood by the fire; and then found that he had next to nothing upon his little body, and that the soles of his shoes were hanging half off. This in the month of March in the north of Scotland was bad enough, even if he had not had a cough.
With the exception of those in the soles of their shoes, or the stocks of their guns, there was not a nail in the valley. It is not to be denied that they were in a dilemma. But Karl had foreseen this difficulty, and provided against it before a stick of timber had been cut.
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