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She had a tall funnel, like the tug in Turner's Fighting Témeraire, and kicked up a tremendous wash with her paddle, the whole effect being faintly reminiscent of a hay-making machine. She pushed her way along, slightly "down by the head," as if she had suddenly thought of something and was putting on a spurt to make up for lost time.

The elephant's enormous tusks were already ensanguined with his antagonist's gore, while a long gash in his left foreleg, close to its junction with the body, from which the blood could be seen to spurt in little intermittent jets, testified to the skill and strength with which the rhinoceros had used his long, curving horn; yet neither betrayed the slightest disposition to retire from the contest.

That's maybe something like fifty miles a day, and he's most likely to keep his horses fresh just as long as possible, so as to be good for the last spurt through the hostile country. That's how I figure it, and I know something about scouting. You was n't planning to strike out after him, was you?"

Mollie and Betty, the two best skaters, rather hung back, letting the more unskillful Amy and Grace lead the way. The boys skated together in the rear. "When are you going to spurt?" called Will, as he saw that the pace was not increasing much. "Time enough," replied Betty, narrowly watching her rival, Mollie. "That isn't skating!" declared Frank with a laugh. "You girls are only creeping."

"There's nothing here!" exclaimed Jack in disgust, as he and Mark, in a final spurt, reached the base of it. "Nothing but ordinary dirt." Mark looked down. He dug his heel into the sod. Then he uttered a cry of triumph. "Here it is! Here it is!" he cried. "It's under the grass! We've got to dig it up!" He knelt down, and began to tear away the sod with his hands.

'Those things are nothing, said his host, following Kim's glance. 'I buy them because they are pretty, and sometimes I sell if I like the buyer's look. My work is on the table some of it. It blazed in the morning light all red and blue and green flashes, picked out with the vicious blue-white spurt of a diamond here and there. Kim opened his eyes. 'Oh, they are quite well, those stones.

"I guess we all have," Dick nodded, himself turning back. His chums followed. "I don't know whether I'll dress or not," remarked Tom Reade, as he shot ahead of the others. "If I find I don't want to dress, then I'll just sit on the bank and dry my skin before going in again." Continuing his spurt, Tom kept on until be reached the log from which the first diving had been done.

Four hours of exhausted, deathlike sleep; eight hours more of the smells, and the glaring light, and the moving instruments. Days of this, sealing the brains permanently into their new homes, into their hideous new bodies.... But finally came the climax, and the last exhausted spurt of work.

He saw this and had a lot of bamboo sticks put up all over the town, without any underground connections, and couldn't make out why the water wouldn't spurt out of them. And because mine spurts, he thinks I'm a magician." "I suppose," grumbled the consul, "some one told him that too." "I suppose so," said Mr. Stedman, uneasily.

When with a last desperate spurt I ran into the clearing, I saw the Professor sitting in the cabin door, smoking his pipe and basking in the sunshine as though life held no trouble for him.