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Cap'n Aaron Sproul was posted that bright afternoon on the end of his piazza. He sat bolt upright and twiddled his gnarled thumbs nervously. His wife came out and sat down beside him. "Where you left off, Cap'n," she prompted meekly, "was when the black, whirling cloud was coming and you sent the men up-stairs " "Aloft!" snapped Cap'n Sproul.
What he did not appreciate so readily was the fact that his somewhat massive form was being twiddled round the detective's little finger. "Right you are, sir," he cried cheerily. "But, if Mr. Grant didn't kill Miss Melhuish, who did!" "In all probability, the man who wore that hat," chirped Furneaux, taking a nondescript bundle from a coat pocket, and throwing it on the table. Robinson started.
"You ought to know." She twiddled it round in her fingers till the quivering fronds emitted a tiny sound. "And you can use it as a feather too." She lowered her head to listen. "We've each got a feather," mentioned Tim. "It's a compass. Shows the way, you know. You hear him calling that way." "The Tramp explained that," Judy added. "He's Leader. Come on, Aunty.
He looked Graham carefully, doubtfully from head to foot, slowly thrust the card in a waistcoat-pocket, and was turning silently away when Geordie hailed him, a ready smile on his young face. "I'll trouble you for the card," said he. "I may meet other conductors." Slowly Cullin fumbled for it, twiddled it between his fingers, and finally, half reluctant, restored it.
Only by his superior agility was Racey enabled to dodge all save a few drops of a full bucket of water. "Djever get left! Djever get left!" singsonged Racey from the corner of the building, and set the thumb of one hand to his nose and twiddled opprobrious fingers at his comrade. "You wanna be a li'l bit quicker when you go to souse me, Swing. Yo're too slow, a lot too slow. Yep.
'So far, murmured the Saint to the Devil suavely, 'so far from being four minutes too early, you are exactly a year too late. On saying this, the Saint smiled a genial, priestly smile, folded his hands, twiddled his thumbs slowly round and round, and gazed in a fatherly way at the Devil. 'What do you mean? shouted the Devil.
"Through that round hole at the top." "Then why don't you get out through it?" "Because I can't:" and the lobster twiddled his horns more fiercely than ever, but he was forced to confess. "I have jumped upwards, downwards, backwards, and sideways, at least four thousand times; and I can't get out: I always get up underneath there, and can't find the hole."
Maybe he'd been looking around and doing some thinking, since he got back. He might have been talking to Goodman Mikhyl, too. There was a screen in the room. He nodded toward it. "He's speaking at a rally of the People's Welfare Party at Drepplin, now," he said. "May I put it on, to show you what I mean?" When the Crown Prince assented, he snapped on the screen and twiddled at the selector.
Juniper concluded from this that he had not gone as far as he had been asked, and boldly resolved, at the spur of the moment, to stand by his demand. "Five hundred pounds ain't much," he said. "Dick, don't make a beast of yourself!" said Amelia. Upon this Dick only smiled. He continually twiddled his hat for three or four minutes, and then rose up straight.
Go to Chikai thy brother dog, dog red, red dog! There is hair between every toe!" He twiddled his toes a second time. "Come down ere we starve thee out, hairless ape!" yelled the Pack, and this was exactly what Mowgli wanted.
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