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There were rocks piled at its foot, and I got to the top of these without being seen. "I hadn't got a dozen feet higher when my foot set a boulder rolling, and down it went with a crash. There were shouts below, but I did not stop to listen to what they said, but put up the bed of the torrent at a two-forty gait.
We'll cut her up in chunks an' tackle her: let's see, ten times eighteen is one-eighty, an' three times that is three times the hundred is three hundred, and three times the eighty is two-forty. That's five-forty, an' a half of one-eighty is ninety, an' five-forty is six-thirty. We'd ort to double it fer interest an' goodwill, but we'll leave it go at the reglar price.
"It's half-past two o'clock now," announced the starter, glancing at his watch. "At two-forty," stated the referee, "I shall order both canoes into the water. As soon after that as each crew captain chooses he may put his men aboard and take such warming-up work as he may wish. At two-fifty-six the first gun will be fired, and both crews must come promptly to the judges' boat for alignment.
Lincoln did not like the pompous little fellow whose rotund and diminutive figure was in glaring contrast to his own a young man, but colossal, while his stature was augmented by his meagerness. "Gentlemen," bawled Larkins, "I have the best horse in the county! I ran him three miles in two-forty each and he never fetched a long breath!"
Ferdy was of medium size; compact rather than slender; built of rawhide and spring steel. Lithe and poised, he was the epitome of leashed and controlled action. Moose was six-feet-four and weighed a good two-forty stolid, massive, solid. Ferdy and Moose; a tiger and an elephant; both owned in fee simple by Vincent Lopresto. The two at the other table had been planning for days.
Rannage could recover from his astonishment, the study door opened and closed, and Douglas Stanton was gone. "Hello! what's the rush?" Douglas Stanton stopped short, and a smile overspread his face as he turned it upon the beaming countenance of the man standing before him. "Oh, it's you, Garton, is it? I didn't see you." "You certainly didn't. Why, you were cutting a two-forty clip."
I would buy a fast horse a two-forty mare and a bangup buggy, and I'd show the old farmers round here what fast driving is. Then I'd have a stylish house, and " "I don't believe you'd be content to live in Milford, Leonard." "I don't think I would, either, unless my business were here. I'd go to New York every few weeks and see life."
Outside the gate a couple of forest-ponies were waiting, stout, lively, five-year-olds, equal, if not to a two-forty heat, yet to twenty miles of steady trot without distress, brown and sleek as you please, with the knowingest eyes, and intelligence expressed in the impatient stamp of the fore-foot, and good-humor in the twitching of the ear.
I know a pint of soft soap from a pound of cheese," rattled Donald, who could talk very fast when he was both excited and enraged; and Laud's tongue was no match for his member. "I tell you, I haven't been near the Maud." "Don't tell me! I saw it all; I have two eyes that I wouldn't sell for two cents apiece; and I'll put you over the road at a two-forty gait."
Be frank with Polk as to how much he asphyxiates me? I know better than to blow out the gas like that! No, Jane! But what is a woman going to do when she is young and hearty and husky, with the blood running through her veins at a two-forty rate, when her orchard is in bloom, the mocking-birds are singing the night through, and she is not really in love with anybody?
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