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These sat down in a row, and, each man unrolling a parcel containing a pasty or a thick lump of cake with currants in it, commenced the demolition thereof with as much zeal as had previously been displayed in the demolition of the rock.
"Roxy, where's my turkey-feather fan? Oh, here 'tis; there, take it, and fan you, child; and maybe you'll have a glass of our spruce beer?" "Thank you, Aunt Roxy. I brought you some young wintergreen," said Mara, unrolling from her handkerchief a small knot of those fragrant leaves, which were wilted by the heat.
I'd give anything to be there digging." "Humph!" ejaculated the doctor. "After all, it is a nasty, ghoulish business: moleing in the old tombs and unrolling mummies." "It may seem so to you, but to me it is intensely interesting. Besides, much as you condemn it, this is the only way to find out the history the manners and customs of the people two and three thousand years ago."
The comparison is, indeed, exaggerated; but it often seems to me, in unrolling a compact Latin sentence, as if I were writing out in words the meaning of an algebraic formula. A single word often requires three or four as its English equivalent. Yet the language is not made obscure by compression.
"See the buds on those Ashton Towns," he commented. Laurel gazed critically: the varnished red buds were bursting with white blossom, the new leaves unrolling, tender green and sticky. "But the jargonelles " he drew in his lips doubtfully.
"Thou saidst well, son of Hur," Simonides began, while unrolling the sheets. "Let us understand each other. In anticipation of the demand which I would have made hadst thou waived it I have here a statement covering everything necessary to the understanding required. I could see but two points involved the property first, and then our relation. The statement is explicit as to both.
I think she has not a good method, as you have." "Indeed, sir, I can't speak to that," said Mrs. Poyser in a hard voice, rolling and unrolling her knitting and looking icily out of the window, as she continued to stand opposite the squire. Poyser might sit down if he liked, she thought; she wasn't going to sit down, as if she'd give in to any such smooth-tongued palaver. Mr.
After all, telling stories in an admirable fashion is rather a familiar accomplishment nowadays. Many men, many women are able to make stories of considerable ingenuity as to plot, and of thrilling interest in the unrolling of a scheme of events. Numberless writers are shrewd and clever in constructing their 'fable, but they are unable to do much beyond this.
"It is not likely, sir, that he divulged that!" "He? No! But fate fortune the unrolling course of things plain Providence whatever you choose to call it seems at times quite below or above that reticence which we others so naturally prize and exhibit!" "You'll oblige me, sir, by not speaking in riddles." The irony dropped from Mr. Wotherspoon's tone. He faced the business squarely.
George added another barrel to the cargo of The Aloha, and wondered if the Sentinel would start botanical gardens and a lighting plant and turn them to the account of advertisers. All the time, mile upon mile, was unrolling before them the unforgetable beauty of the island.
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