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These lumbered after Larry's quick foot, with all the engaging absurdity of their kind; tripping over their own enormous feet, chewing outlying portions of one another, as ill-brought-up babies chew their blankets; sitting down abruptly and unpremeditatedly, and watching with deep dubiety the departing form of their escort, as though a sudden and shattering doubt of his identity had paralysed them, until some contrary wind of doctrine blew them into action again, and they hurled themselves upon his trail, filled with the single intention to rush between his legs.
We all seven a good Republican! Stamp that eagle! Hoor-r-ra! Republican eternall!" Pixley was left sitting on the barrel, looking after the light figure of the young man joyously tripping back to the cellar, and turning to wave a hand in farewell from the street. "Well, I am damned!" the politician remarked, with unwitting veracity.
She hesitated for a moment, and then, standing still, deliberately beckoned him over. "You are a detective, are you not?" she asked, as he approached, hat in hand. He smiled. "You are a very clever young lady," he remarked. "I don't want any compliments," she answered. "Did you come to my show this afternoon hoping just to catch me tripping, or are you engaged in a larger quest altogether?"
In this critical state of affairs it happened once that, as I was leaning out of my window gazing dully into vacancy, the lady's-maid from the castle came tripping across the road. When she saw me she came and stood just outside the window. "His Grace returned from his travels yesterday," she remarked, hurriedly. "Indeed!"
The report sounded like a clap of thunder, and was followed by a roar of rage and pain. The rope-thrower, with the rope tripping his feet and impeding his movements, danced about wildly, shaking the hand from which three fingers had been cleanly clipped. At that instant another posse rode up, with a baying of hounds to herald it.
Their merchandise tripping feet and rhythmic limbs, shrill laughter and roguish eyes, carmined lips and pencilled lashes, singing voices and cajoleries had no more value, because war had taken away the men who buy these things, and the market was closed.
Tabs had the feeling as he limped along the pavement with Terry tripping at his side, that the eyes of the house which they had left followed them followed them jealously, romantically, expectantly. There was only one way in which they could give satisfaction and that was by returning to it engaged. "He lacks ardor. Perhaps, after all, he's too old!" Lady Beddow's criticism drummed in his mind.
A party of moosmes tripping along to a feast or a fair looks like a bed of brilliant flowers set in motion. They wear kimonos of rich silks and bright shades, kimonos of vermilion and gold, of pink, of blue, of white, decorated with lovely designs of apple-blossom, of silk crape in luminous greens and golden browns, every shade of the rainbow being employed, but all in harmony and perfect taste.
As I dribbled the stuff over the sorry devilgrass they kicked the pump and my shins mimicking my actions, tripping me as they skipped under my legs, getting wet with the Metamorphizer I hoped with mutually deleterious effect and generally making me more than ever thankful for my bachelor condition.
In the other studies one was always banging against the corners of tables, or tripping over fenders, but here there was absolutely nothing, but four bare walls to interfere with anybody.
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