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Oh, wouldn't I like to go for a pull in the 'Stormy Petrel!" and poor Mac tossed about as if he did not know what to do with himself. "Let me sing, and perhaps you'll drop off; then the day will seem shorter," said Rose, taking up a fan and sitting down beside him. "Perhaps I shall; I didn't sleep much last night, and when I did I dreamed like fun.

In religious matters there are great multitudes watching us perpetually, each propagandist ready with his bundle of finalities, which having accepted we may be at peace. The more absolute the submission demanded, the stronger the temptation becomes to those who have been long tossed among doubts and conflicts.

I'll take the letter with pleasure if you'll give me a couple of hundred to go on with." Bullard tossed the letter back on the desk, and proceeded to light a cigar. Marvel took a step forward. "I was only joking, Mr. Bullard. I'll take your message, and trust you." "Very well," growled the other, handing it over. "Take care of it. You ought to be back in an hour. You'll find me here."

Fay suddenly approached the table, scribbled a phrase, folded it and tossed it, doubled up, before Gershom; then leaned over the table, staring at his pale, unwholesome face with all the might of his black eyes. Chaney seized the pencil convulsively and wrote, "Balaam!" Fay burst into a loud laugh and said, "Read the question?" It was, "Who rode on your grandfather's back?"

"Hark'ee, boy, can you swim? "'Yes, said I. "'Then do it, and, seizing me by my trousers and the nape of my neck, he tossed me over the side into the sea. The fellows in the boats at the end of the pier, backed their oars on seeing this; but observing that I could swim, they allowed me to make the best of my way to the pier-head.

We could hear the wind roaring among the trees on the shore, and every instant it increased, raising up big waves which threatened to sweep over us. The raft was tossed and tumbled about, and sometimes it was with difficulty we could hold on sufficiently to prevent ourselves from being shaken off into the seething water.

I wonder if he hates me as I do him?" So Laura raved, in tears and in rage by turns, tossed in a tumult of passion, which she gave way to with little effort to control. A servant came to summon her to dinner. She had a headache. The hour came for the President's reception. She had a raving headache, and the Senator must go without her. That night of agony was like another night she recalled.

Foreign adventure had followed English hardships, and the soldier had been tossed on the stormy sea of European warfare. He had been graciously received at the French Court, but only to feel himself a stranger there, and to have his English clothes and English accent laughed at by Gramont and Bussy, and the accomplished St.

Ned was greatly shaken up, and fairly tossed from side to side of the steering tower. For the tank contained no springs, except such as were installed around the most delicate machinery, and it was like riding in a dump cart over a very rough road. "However, that's part of the game," Tom observed.

He's got something pretty serious to say, and he don't want to take no chances on your cutting him short with a bullet!" The sheriff glared at Bull and then cast a swift glance over the faces of the others. He read upon them only one expression a cold curiosity. Plainly they agreed with Jud, and the sheriff gave way. He took off his belt and tossed it upon a chair near him.