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"A man a poet a genius?" Bacon repeated, gravely. "Then, prithee, friend, how meant you in saying you thought me him who had written Shakespeare? Can a man a poet be written?" "Nay verily in good sooth marry, no!" stuttered Droop. "What they mean is thet 'twas you wrote the things Shakespeare put his name to you did, didn't you?" "Ahem!" said the stranger, with dubious slowness.

As a rule I can see the funny side of Hawkins' doings; but the fun departed from this particular mess at the thought of what would happen when the colossus finally emerged from the bag and commenced operations upon Hawkins and myself neither of us athletes. "He's caught, isn't he, Griggs?" stuttered Hawkins, clutching my arm. "For the moment," I replied. "But come let's get an officer.

Then he would awaken his prisoner as he already considered him and shepherd him aboard the Calais boat. Captain Loreuil got out and went on ahead. "Come along, Butler!" Juve cried suddenly. He shook the slumbering traitor sharply. Butler-Vinson leaped to his feet with frightened eyes and gaping mouth. "What is it?" he stuttered. "What do you want with me?"

Nelson was visibly disturbed by the rector's firm hold on the situation. "But," he stuttered, "Mr. Bascom is the richest man in the parish, and his influence is strong. You will find that everyone defers to his judgment as a matter of course." "All right; then let me add, for your own information, that I can earn my living honestly in this town and take care of myself without Mr.

Heard of Jim O'Ryan, ain't yer? Well, he's a good friend o' hers; see? Bein' as they're both Catholics... But I'm goin' out this afternoon, see what the town's like... an ole Ford says the skirts are just peaches an' cream." "He juss s-s-says that to torment a feller," stuttered the undertaker. "I wish I were going with you," said Andrews.

"Sure to be," rejoined Bill. "It's all your fault, Sam, for taking us out in that fool hydroplane." "My fault! Well, I like that," stuttered out Sam. "You asked me to come, and you know I wanted to come back when the boys told us it might come on to blow; but you called me a 'sissy, and said I was too timid to own a boat." "Um er well," rejoined Bill, somewhat confused, "that's so.

"What is Arthur Channing to you, that you should take up his cause in this startling way upon every possible occasion?" "He is this to me that he has nobody else to stand up for him," stuttered Roland, so excited as to impede his utterance. "We were both in the same office, and the shameful charge might have been cast upon me, as it was cast upon him. It was mere chance.

'Elia' was in splendid good humour; comfortably ensconced in a large arm-chair, with a huge decanter at his right hand, and a huge bronze snuff-box, from which he continually helped himself, on his left. Clare having been formally introduced, Charles Lamb took a whole handful of snuff, and falling back in his armchair, stuttered out an atrocious pun concerning rural poets and hackney coaches.

The needles of all the gauges and meters were dancing back and forth as though they were being flicked with invisible fingers. Tom grabbed the intercom and shouted wildly. "Astro! Emergency space speed! We've got to get out of here!" Tom whirled around to face Vidac and Hardy. "You'd better call Professor Sykes up here, right away," he declared. "Why? What's the matter?" stuttered Hardy.

As I endeavoured to explain to her what I had to say, I had the horror to find I could not make myself understood. I stammered, stuttered, said one word in place of another did all but speak; Miss Young went away frightened enough, poor thing; and Anne and Violet Lockhart were much alarmed.