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Alongside her pier, white as a gull, new painted, new washed, cargoed and stoked, the Roumania reared three red smoke-stacks, and sat proudly with the gang-plank flung out from her mighty hip and her nose tapering toward the blue harbor and the blue billows beyond. Within the narrow confines of a first-deck stateroom, piled round with luggage and its double-decker berths freshly made up, Mrs.
Whereas, in an ideal of love and benevolence, we have tried to automatize ourselves into little love-engines always stoked with the sorrows or beauties of other people, so that we can get up steam of charity or righteous wrath.
He would shoot the chutes, again quick. It was she who had awakened his ambition and kept him tolerably straight. Without her? Humph! He stoked the sheet-iron camp stove, put the potatoes to boil, cut chops enough for two and laid the table with the steel knives and forks and tin plates.
Your drink's given him a good sleep, at any rate." Young Mr. Cashell could not catch Mr. Shaynor's face, which was half turned to the advertisement. I stoked the stove anew, for the room was growing cold, and lighted another pastille. Mr. Shaynor in his chair, never moving, looked through and over me with eyes as wide and lustreless as those of a dead hare. "Poole's late," said young Mr.
The Skylark was now days upon her way toward the sixth planet, Seaton gave the visiplates and the instrument board his customary careful scrutiny and rejoined the others. "Still talking about the human fish, Dottie Dimple?" he asked, as he stoked his villainous pipe. "Peculiar tribe of porpoises, but I'm strong for 'em.
Hungry as they were, they waited while "Pennsylvania" solemnly asked a blessing. Then they stoked in silence till Dan drew a breath over his tin cup and demanded of Harvey how he felt. "'Most full, but there's just room for another piece."
He curdled the blood of boys with his eloquence on the method of attack to pierce liver and lights and kidneys of the enemy. He made their eyes bulge out of their heads, fired them with blood-lust, stoked up hatred of Germans all in a quiet, earnest, persuasive voice, and a sense of latent power and passion in him. He told funny stories one, famous in the army, called "Where's 'Arry?"
When he returned he set the cup and plate of cakes on the arm of her chair. "I was very rude a little while ago. Will you accept my apologies?" "On condition that you will never take your playthings and go home." He laughed engagingly. "You've hit it squarely. It was the act of a petulant child." "It did not sound exactly like a man who had stoked six months from Singapore to the Andaman Islands.
"Come in again, any time!" shouted out the cheery colonel, waving his hand. I never went again, though I saw many other Butcher's Shops in the years that followed, where there was a great carving of human flesh which was of our boyhood, while the old men directed their sacrifice, and the profiteers grew rich, and the fires of hate were stoked up at patriotic banquets and in editorial chairs.
I am the stoker and the stoked, I am the song the porter sings." "What's that you say?" "It doesn't matter," said the voice sadly. "I say," it continued, "will your people look out a hotel near the scene of action, and telegraph for a room?" "At once," said Sir James. "Come here as soon as you can!" He replaced the receiver.
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