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He was working away the heap that had collected beneath him in preparation for more extensive operations. "Cinders!" she called, in the forlorn hope of attracting his attention. "Cinders!" Then, with a sudden spurt of animation, "Cinders darling, just come and see what I've found!" But Cinders was not so easily deceived.
It was now 1.15 A.M. I came to a lonely house fronted by a neatly railed garden. I hammered noisily on the door and found that it opened into a darkened passage. A torch flashed into my face. "Is this the rd Brigade?" I began. "Yes," a voice shouted, and suddenly a door opened and a spurt of light revealed a youthful pink-cheeked staff lieutenant. "Are you from the nd Brigade?" he asked.
"I'm game! Am I to be made a prefect, I say, Mark Mr Railsford, I mean?" "And remember," said Mark, ignoring the question, "that we are here to work, and not to to drive omnibuses." Arthur brightened up suddenly. "You saw the race, then? Stunning spurt round the last lap, only Dig hadn't any stay in him, and the cab had the inside berth. I say, don't let anybody know it was Dig, will you?
I wouldn't do it, but he's just a-pinin' fur our blood an' the hair on top uv our heads." Up went the long Kentucky rifle, and the moonlight fell clearly along its polished barrel. Then came the flash, the spurt of smoke, the report echoing among the hills about the lake, and the chief fell forward with his face in the water.
"Say, are we goin' towards the front?" "Goddamned if I know." "Ain't no front within miles." Men's sentences came shortly through their heavy breathing. The column shifted over to the side of the road to avoid a train of motor trucks going the other way. Chrisfield felt the heavy mud spurt up over him as truck after truck rumbled by.
"It serves poor Susan-Nanna right for marrying Ballinger." "Oh I suppose it serves me right, too " Though she clenched her hands tight, tight, she couldn't keep back that little spurt of anger. He was smiling his peculiar, voluptuous smile. "Serves you right? For spoiling everybody in the village? It does indeed." "You don't in the least see what I mean," said Fanny.
It was not very long afterward that we had ocular demonstration of the value that extra spurt of speed might prove to be; for while we were still plugging along in the direction of the firing, we suddenly sighted two craft coming slowly in our direction.
We bolt our food, and run for the train; we jump out of it before it has stopped, and reach the school door just as the bell rings; we "cram" for our examinations, and "spurt" for our prizes. We have no time to read books, so we scuttle through the reviews, and consider ourselves up in the subject; we cut short our letters home, and have no patience to sit and hear a long story out.
The camp prowler stood up straight, staring to see whence the next stone would come. After nearly two minutes he bent to pick up the case of biscuit that he had dropped. Smack! Even as his nearer hand touched the box a sharp stone struck the back of that hand, cutting a gash and causing the blood to spurt. "I'll have your scalp for that!" howled the enraged man.
But by gum by gum " Darius turned to Edwin, and tried to say something; and then Edwin saw his father's face working into monstrous angular shapes, and saw the tears spurt out of his eyes, and was clutched convulsively in his father's shirt-sleeved arms. He was very proud, very pleased, but he did not like this embrace; it made him feel ashamed.
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