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He would struggle bravely on for a while, and then sit down panting and exhausted. I carried his gun and knapsack, and finally took him by the arm to keep him up. Meantime the battle going on behind us drew nearer and nearer, and the bullets were whistling around us with uncomfortable frequency.
My aunt, beginning, I imagine, to be made seriously uncomfortable by my prolonged dejection, made a pretence of being anxious that I should go to Dover, to see that all was working well at the cottage, which was let; and to conclude an agreement, with the same tenant, for a longer term of occupation. Janet was drafted into the service of Mrs. Strong, where I saw her every day.
Introduced to the Emperor, originally, that she might alleviate his melancholy by her singing, she soon exhausted all that was harmonious in her nature, for never was a more uncomfortable, unmanageable personage than Barbara in her after life. Married to one Pyramus Kegell, who was made a military commissary in the Netherlands, she was left a widow in the beginning of Alva's administration.
Little Riggs sighed despondently. This meeting would soon be over and the decision made, after which he would have to face a totally unexpected set of conditions and a circle of friends and investors who would regard him with close and uncomfortable interest. "Well, I suppose it's shut up!" he hazarded unsteadily.
"Eugh! eugh!" he cried, as he saw me opening my eyes to look at him, and his menacing attitude and ferocious aspect made a most uncomfortable feeling creep over me. "Up, lads, up! and shove off!" I shouted to my companions, jumping forward myself to cut the painter.
Elizabeth felt a trifle uncomfortable. Was the dear young man tilting at the idle rich and the corrupt Old World? She stole a glance at him, but perceived only that in his own tanned and sunburnt way he was a remarkably handsome well-made fellow, built on a rather larger scale than the Canadians she had so far seen. A farmer? His manners were not countrified.
"I was only wondering where this 'ere gentleman 'ad gone to, sir. He slipped past me upstairs, sir." I felt mighty uncomfortable. "That's all right, Symons. I know the gentleman," says Mr. Powell as serious as a judge. "Very well, sir. Of course, sir. I saw the gentleman running races all by 'isself down 'ere, so I . . ." "It's all right I tell you," Mr.
"Surely je n'en suis pas la," she said to herself, "that I let it make me uncomfortable that a Mr. Robert Acton should n't honor me with a visit!" Yet she was vexed that he had not come; and she was vexed at her vexation. Her brother, at least, came in, stamping in the hall and shaking the wet from his coat.
Here was an equal for Solem, a sexual colleague, a stallion in strength and stubbornness. And still he went on smiling. "Well, if you haven't any hides ," said Solem, finding the door. Nikolai followed him, still smiling. In the yard he helped Solem raise his burden to his back. "Oh, thank you," said Solem in an uncomfortable tone.
The nature of the fraud was not discovered, but the Franciscans were severely punished. Thus 'the ghost in some measure remains undetected, says Goldsmith, and, indeed, Walpole visited Cock Lane, but could not get in, apparently after the detection. But, writing on February 2, he may speak of an earlier date. Meanwhile matters were very uncomfortable for Mr.
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