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So the Princess walked out that night in a gust of musk in her picture hat and sweeping cloak, with bangles tinkling and petticoat swishing and the office knew her no more forever. About the time that the Princess left the office to improve her social standing, Eli Martin and his big mule team came to town from the Bethel neighbourhood.
The sun set; it began to grow dark, and I felt in the air the spreading cold of the chamber of death. My heart sank lower and lower. I began to lose sight of the lean, long-coated figure, and at length could no more hear his swishing stride through the heather.
The mare hung back, terrified by the swishing of the whipped boughs and the roar of the gale overhead: her hoofs, as George dragged her forward, scuffled with the loose-lying stones on the beach. After a minute he desisted and turned on Taffy again. "Look here; before we have this out there's one thing I'd like to know. When you were at Oxford, was Honoria maintaining you there?"
The cabin curtains froze to the ports; all the cabin roofs leaked, and it was impossible to keep the floors and bedding dry; and in our cabin, in addition, we had water constantly flowing and swishing backwards and forwards between the iron deck of the ship and the wooden floor of the cabin.
They could never explain, any more than the dog, why they followed each other, but so they ran, Dave keeping in Jim's track in all its turnings, Andy after Dave, and the dog circling round Andy the live fuse swishing in all directions and hissing and spluttering and stinking.
Travers gasped; a splash of water flicked her over the eyes and she felt the separate drops run down her cheeks, she tasted them on her lips, tepid and bitter like tears. A swishing undulation tossed the boat on high followed by another and still another; and then the boat with the breeze abeam glided through still water, laying over at a steady angle.
I never heard such a swishing of handsaws and banging of hammers; you make more noise than ten navy yards. How you getting along?" "Not so briskly as I could wish; we are under contract to finish fifteen of these large batteaux, besides a sixty-foot keelboat by December." "Sassyfax! Fifteen? What for?" "To carry colonists down the Mississippi to the Wachita lands.
Makes a feller want to lean over and pat that little row of bangs." "I expect there's a feller down there doin' it now." The spring complained under Taterleg's sudden movement; there was a sound of swishing legs under the sheet. Lambert saw him dimly against the window, sitting with his feet on the floor. "You mean Jedlick?" "Why not Jedlick? He's got the field to himself."
Then his feet flipped upward, convulsively, so that John Bulmer saw the man's spurs glitter and twitch in the moonlight, and John Bulmer heard a snapping and crackling and swishing among the poplars, and heard the heavy, unvibrant thud of Cazaio's body upon the turf. "May he find more mercy than he has merited," said John Bulmer, "for the man had excellent traits.
Woods was aware of a light step, a swishing, sibilant, delightful rustling the caress of sound is the rustling of a well-groomed woman's skirts and of an afterthought of violets, of a mere reminiscence of orris, all of which came toward him through the dimness of the hall. He started, noticeably. "Billy," Miss Hugonin stated, "I'm sorry for what I said to you.
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