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I drove on straight towards it, and presently I saw in the midst of the tumult, and by the light of the fish, a bit of splintered spar looming over me, and a dark hull tilting over, and some glowing phosphorescent forms that were shaken and writhed as the fish bit at them. Then it was I began to try to attract Widgery's attention. A horror came upon me. Ugh!

Miss Pembroke undistinguished, unimaginative, tolerable. Rickie intolerable. "And how pedantic!" she mused. "He smells of the University library. If he was stupid in the right way he would be a don." She looked round the tiny church; at the whitewashed pillars, the humble pavement, the window full of magenta saints. There was the vicar's wife. And Mrs. Wilbraham's bonnet. Ugh!

Nittinat's heart good. Close tum-tum, ugh!" "White man's eyes are closed his heart is darkened," said I, adopting what I considered to be a conciliatory style of speech. "My friend cannot understand how you could have known Captain Cook so long ago. All the white men who knew the great white chief have gone to their fathers." "Ugh, all same as Cappen Cook.

At once shouts and laughter went up, as every boy, even including the artful Toby, made haste to get rid of his mouthful as fast as possible. "Ugh! what a horrible mess!" cried Owen. "What did you fool us for, Toby?" demanded Steve. "Huh! t-t-think I w-w-wanted all the t-t-taste to m-m-myself?" demanded Toby. "But whatever did you put in this stew to make it taste so funny?" demanded Max.

I trust I I know my duties as a mag-istrate my cour urage and in-trep id ity as such ugh! ijg'h! ugh! are no saycret now, I think." "I don't believe," observed Purcel, "that there is one syllable of truth in what he says. I can read the falsehood in his eye.

Can I do anything for you?" inquired Ishmael sympathetically. "Ugh! ugh! ugh! No! Hold the basin for me again, Bob! No, Ishmael, you can do nothing for me! only do go away! I hate anyone to see me in this debasing sickness! for it is debasing, Ishmael! Ugh! the basin, Bob! quick!" Ishmael backed out in double-quick time.

It was her first train journey, and quite a time of it she had finding the house. But at last she stands looking up at the house. "Ugh! does my Laddie live here! in this great mansion?" But there was the name on the door-plate. There was no mistaking that. And so she rang the bell. "Is the doctor in?" She could hardly get the word "doctor" out. She had never called him that before, just Laddie.

If he's left that way open it's as plain as the nose on your face it's because he wants us to take it." Ugh, these men! the boy worshipped the man's courage and scorned his caution. He throbbed for the relief of action. Only let him be doing! anything, anything in the world was better than standing here to watch Nelson sweep doom-wards.

The young lawyer looked straight before him while the girl, swept on by her ignoble rage, displayed still more of the moral ulceration which had been injected into her young life. "I don't see what men find about her to like unless it is her eyes. She's got beautiful eyes. But she's vulgar ugh! The stories she tells right before men, too! She'd kill any one that got ahead of her, that woman would!

Albert, his face now very white indeed, had strode across the office, seized the speaker by the front of his flannel shirt and backed him against the wall. "Stop," commanded Albert, between his teeth. "That's enough of that. Don't you say any more!" "Eh? Ugh! Ur-gg! Leggo of my shirt." Albert let go, but he did not step back. He remained where he was, exactly in front of Mr. Price.