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Billy looked on listlessly, and Cocoanut himself hardly knew why he was making this arrangement. The sun bounced up out of the ocean, a great red ball behind the thin fog, and bunting climbed the flagstaffs of Honolulu. With eager eyes the boys gazed cityward until the moment when the breeze had straightened out the flags and the device upon them could be seen.
She had, as it were, grown up, straightened out; all the features of her face, especially her lips, seemed defined ... her gaze had grown deeper, harder, and gloomier. I stayed on at the Ozhogins' till dinner-time. She got up, went out of the room, and came back again, answered questions with composure, and designedly took no notice of me.
I happened to be nearest the front of the coach, and so did not receive the benefit of his attentions at first. He had almost reached me when there was a commotion outside, and he straightened up to listen, all his senses on the alert. "He was between me and the door in which his companion was standing.
"Hadn't you better tell him about me?" "You don't mind?" "Of course not." Father Jervis got up and slipped quickly out of the room. "I'm delighted to see you again, Monsignor," began the Bishop, coming in, followed by Father Jervis three minutes later. Monsignor straightened himself after the kissing of the ring. "You're very kind, my lord," he said.
The admiral’s tall form straightened. “Themistocles the Friend is dead; Themistocles the Just is here,—drink.” “But you promised escape?” The prisoner’s whisper was just audible.
The word was given, and they plunged at each other as fiercely as before; once more the blows rained and rattled and flashed; every few moments the quick-eyed seconds would notice that a sword was bent then they called "Halt!" struck up the contending weapons, and an assisting student straightened the bent one.
But while I'm out of the ring now for good I don't mind saying to you what I said to Pierce, that the only thing that gets into training here, as far as I can see, is a fellow's pocketbook." We went back to the house and I straightened the news stand, Amanda King having taken a violent toothache as a result of the excitement.
Cicely's reply was such a wildly hysterical giggle that Mrs. Wilson stared at her in offended surprise. "She's only silly!" explained Lindsay hurriedly. "Please, could you let us have some scraps of dark cloth? Perhaps there'd be something in the rag bag. Be quiet, you stupid!" The last remark was aside to the irrepressible Cicely, who straightened her face with an effort.
But the exact way to effect this has not yet come clear to her mind. Times are rather hard, and, as we have said before, she is in straightened circumstances, having, for something more than ten years, had nothing but the earnings of eleven old negroes, five of whom are cripples, to keep up the dignity of the house of the Swiggs.
Simultaneously they uttered an excited exclamation, as a huge, silvery body darted to the surface, threshed the water for the fraction of a second, and then dived. "Look out!" cried Yorke. "Give him line, Red, give him line! Play him careful now, or you'll lose him!" The reel screeched, as Redmond let the fish run. Then without warning the line slacked and the rod straightened.
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