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People called him "Grigsby" and "Kickleberry Brown," and laughed when he twiddled his thumbs.
When you invade the chiropodical secret of the real hero's fine boot, or brush him in passing if you have looked once too often at a certain lady, or have stood between him and the sun, or even twiddled your thumbs at him in an indecorous or careless manner look to it that you be prepared to draw and mayhap to be spitted upon his sword's point, with honor. Sdeath!
The trouble was, they couldn't. They could turn off the screen, but Zaspar Makann would go on screaming, and millions all over the planet would still hear him. Bentrik twiddled the selector. The voice stuttered briefly, and then came echoing out of the speaker, but this time the pickup was somewhere several hundred feet above a great open park.
In fact, he had twiddled it so much that the pivot upon which it had hung broke and Martha had insisted upon his sending the charm to Boston for repairs. It had recently been returned. "What is that thing, Mr. Bangs?" asked Primmie. "I was lookin' at it t'other day when you left your watch chain layin' out in the sink." "In the sink? You mean BY the sink, don't you, Primmie?"
'Get me the sword there you know, in the loft... make haste.... Eroshka went out. Pavel Afanasievitch suddenly became exceedingly pale, hurriedly took off his dressing-gown, put on a reddish coat with big paste buttons... twisted a cravat round his neck... Vassily looked at him, and twiddled the fingers of his right hand. 'Well, are we to fight then, Pavel Afanasievitch?
'Yes, said the Rector, quietly; and he crossed one gaitered leg over the other, and, with fingers interlaced, twiddled his thumbs, as he eyed the monstrous sectary under his orthodox old brows with a stern inquisitiveness. I thought he was meditating theologic battle. But Dr. Bryerly and Mr.
"Put down your weapons!" cried the rioters. "Swear that you will not harm her in any way, and then I will put them down." "Very well, we swear!" cried some in the rear of the crowd. "Let that woman swear too," said Hétfalusy, pointing at Dame Zudár with a shaking hand. None of them did he hold in such horror as her. The virago smiled and twiddled the knife between her fingers.
Vetsburg, if I don't want I come back and find my house on the market, maybe rented over my head, I got to stay home for Shulif when he comes to-day." A rush of dark blood had surged up into Mr. Vetsburg's face, and he twiddled his hat, his dry fingers moving around inside the brim. "Mrs. Kaufman," he cried "Mrs.
She held him with her soft arms and twiddled the gun-metal buttons of his blouse. And when at length she must make an end of farewells she hugged him with all her might and was glad that the hard buttons hurt the delicate breast that he felt against him smotheringly sweet and perilously yielding.
"You foolish girl, not after me, of course. We called it the 'Pem' because it is close to Pembroke College. I remember " He smiled a little, and twiddled his toes. Then he remembered the bedmaker, and said, "My sock is now dry. My sock, please." "Your sock is sopping. No, you don't!" She twitched the tongs away from him. Mrs.
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