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The dead and wounded rolled away often into inaccessible ravines. Stray skeletons, rags of uniform, fragments of weapons, will add to the climbing interest of these gaunt masses for many years to come. In this manner it was that Tofana No. 2 was taken.
I've had enough of stray animals to last me for quite awhile." Peter stood holding the rope and still looking at his mother. But his hopeful expression, brought on by Maizie's words, was fast ebbing. "Hurry up," said Mrs. Procter. "Take him away." "Can't he stay for one night, mother?" Suzanna, silent during the colloquy, now spoke. "Maybe we can find another home for him, Peter.
In Spain the onlooker keeps his hands in his pockets. 'The English, see you, travel for pleasure, said the old soldier, nodding his head in the direction of Gibraltar, pink and shimmering across the bay. The priest brushed some stray grains of snuff from the front of his faded cassock once black, but now of a greeny brown.
Her pink cheeks were a little flushed from a romp with the baby, a few stray curls had been pulled from their ribbon by baby's chubby hands, and the laughing face was so fair and winsome that Laurence Cromer stood stock-still and gazed at her.
Violet is like a person drowning in a wide dreary ocean, when some stray spar floats thitherward. It is not a promise of rescue, yet despair clutches it. "Not better than papa?" Then a mortal shame crimsons her face and she despises herself. Cecil draws a long, quivering breath. "I did love papa best," she whispers, "but now "
There hasn't been a braver thing done by any man in the Army!" He heard all this, but not clearly. They seemed to be stray sentences, uttered by many voices. But it didn't matter; only one thing mattered. Had he done what he had set out to do? "Have you got it?" he gasped. "Got it! I should think we have." It was Major Blundell who spoke. "It's all right, Pollard, you've done the trick."
He had raised a thousand or two dollars and planned a structure of some kind to shelter stray dogs and cats, when the good angel that attends our household pets guided him to the lawyer who had charge of the estates of Miss Ellen M. Gifford, of New Haven, Ct. "I think I can help you," said the lawyer. But he would say nothing more at that time. A few weeks later, Captain Appleton was sent for.
"Now there are ways in which a piece of raw meat may lie without arousing suspicion, but the position of this morsel strangely suggested that it had been placed there carefully, and for assuredly no other purpose than to entice stray animals.
In San Pasqual stray hats were not looked upon as flotsam and jetsam and subject to a too liberal interpretation of the "Losers-weepers- finders-keepers" rule.
'What appears to me the most mysterious part of the story, said Rupert, 'is how the beloved Fido, petted and watched and nursed and guarded as he seems to have been, should have contrived to stray from your house as far as to the river. 'Oh! that is no mystery at all, said Elizabeth; 'we crossed the bridge twice yesterday evening, and I dare say we left him behind us there.
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