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Then began the bustle. A group of ladies, FitzHerberts and Fentons, entered, so soon as the priest gave the signal by tapping on the parlour wall, bearing all things necessary for the altar; and it was astonishing what fine things these were; so that by the time that the priest was ready to vest, the place was transformed.
The wood of trees often tapped is lighter and less dense than that of trees which have not been tapped, and gives less heat in burning. Rush, in a letter to Jefferson, states the number of maples fit for tapping on an acre at from thirty to fifty.
True once, about half an hour earlier, I had thought I heard the dragging and tapping sound from somewhere up above me; but since the corridor overhead was unfinished and none of the rooms opening upon it yet habitable, I concluded that I had been mistaken.
Get me information also about someone called Alfred." "I know him, Lieutenant, pardon Monsieur Henri a letter-box a go-between." "We must know exactly the nature of the relations between Corporal V. and the late Captain Brocq." These last words particularly interested Vagualame: he drew nearer still to de Loubersac, tapping him on the knee.
Meanwhile his chief misgiving was lest the noise he was compelled to make should distress his dying wife; and it was touching to see how he strove to modify, to the utmost degree which was consistent with efficient workmanship, the tapping of the hammer on the soles of the boots in hand. Sorrowing without bitterness, "Cobbler" Horn had no rebellious thoughts.
Fortescue, who is one of the most brilliant men in the profession, had stoutly maintained his thesis that the only method of diagnosis for trouble in a furnace is to sit down in front of it and look at it for three days; others held out for unscrewing it and carrying it home for consideration; others of us, again, claimed that by tapping the affected spot with a wrench the pipe might be fractured in such a way as to prove that it was breakable.
The floor of your clothes closet is intended for your shoes only. Will you be so good as to make a note of these things?" "Yes, Grandmother." Ink, candle grease, wash basket what did they matter in the scheme of life, with spring tapping at the window?
"What becomes of our pact when such a consideration as this comes in?" he continued, meaningly tapping the inscription on the board. "Have we obtained all we wanted on those terms up till now, or not?" "No, we haven't; but now, having obtained almost all we wanted, we can afford to do this for once.
He'll be giving 'Weber's Invitation to the Dance' for dinner, I suppose." They had finished their morning toilets in the locker room, and were about to go downstairs when something tapped against one of the bamboo blinds. Billie promptly drew it up and looked into the clearing below. "Who's tapping at our chamber door?" she demanded.
If you will not, then you shall this very night have an opportunity of telling the truth to my father. I am prepared to bear my shame and all its consequences " The words froze upon her pale lips. On the lawn outside the half-open glass door there was at that moment a light movement the tapping of a walking-stick! "Hush!" cried Flockart. "Remember what I can tell him if I choose!"
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