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He can't more'n slam the door in your face, anyway. And you've hankered after him so long, go and take your chances, you old buzzard! And so I got your address at the Events office pretty early this morning; and I went round all day screwing my courage up, as old Macbeth says, or Ritchloo, I don't know which it was, and at last I did get myself so that I toed the mark like a little man."
Behold the grim and charred Enchanted Isles. This nearest crater-shaped headland is part of Albemarle, the largest of the group, being some sixty miles or more long, and fifteen broad. Did you ever lay eye on the real genuine Equator? Have you ever, in the largest sense, toed the Line?
The bleachers set up an exultant, satisfied shout and sat down to wait. Schultz toed the plate and watched the Rube pitch a couple. There seemed to be no diminution of the great pitcher's speed and both balls cut the plate. Schultz clipped the next one down the third-base Line. Bogart trapped it close to the bag, and got it away underhand, beating the speedy runner by a nose.
The nightmare will begin shortly and he will wake up." After a time Farr came into a village, a hamlet of small houses which toed the crack of a single street. It was near the hour of noon and from the open windows of kitchens drifted scents of the dinners which the women were preparing.
Where the wide collar of her checked gown was turned back at her throat, a triangle of her soft skin showed, as white and pure as the white of daisy petals; her firm young breast moved regularly under the fresh crisp gingham; the folds of her skirt were short enough to show her slender ankles and square- toed sensible low shoes tied with wide bows.
She toed out her two small morocco-shod feet more particularly upon the floor, she smoothed down her own and her doll's little petticoats, and she also made herself all ready to rise and courtesy. After the lavender sweetness came the whisper of silk flounces, growing louder and louder; but there was no sound of footsteps, for Aunt Camilla moved only with the odor and rustle of a flower.
He flung forward over the saddle-bow, face down. One fat hand was crumpled on the turf. His bob-wig had slipped awry. There was no mistaking that bald red neck with the crease across it. It was Big Jerry Ram, the riding-officer. The Gentleman toed the body. "It was this carrion. 'Got you this time, sir, said he, grinning his fat beef-steak British grin. 'Clipped your wings at last, I guess.
Some one lighter of build was wearing the snowshoes, some one who took shorter steps and toed out. "See. She run out to meet him. Here's where her feet kept sinkin' in," West said. The other nodded. Yes, she had hurried to meet him but that was not all he saw. There was the impression of a knee in the snow.
Proceeding on, as we came to the first water, I commenced flirtations with Mtesa's women, much to the surprise of the king and every one. The bridge was broken, as a matter of course; and the logs which composed it, lying concealed beneath the water, were toed successively by the leading men, that those who followed should not be tripped up by them.
Let us not intimate how ladies' shoes have, in a night, clandestinely slid into the gentlemen's cabin, and gentlemen's boots elbowed, or, rather, toed their way among ladies' gear, nor recite the exclamations after runaway property that are heard. "I can't find nothin' of Johnny's shoe!" "Here's a shoe in the water pitcher is this it?"
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