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"If I could wipe some of this dust off," said she. "Never mind that; we are all made of it," the colonel said. "I'll have the woman set you out some breakfast; afterward we'll talk about the boy." "I thank you kindly, Colonel Price, but I already et, long ago, what little I had stomach for," said she.
And this question made Louise sit up straight and wipe her eyes on the corner of the old shawl. "Good to me! Of course he is. Didn't he make me these fine shoes?" she answered, pointing to her feet. "But how could he make me a pretty cap or a dress? And he doesn't want to ask anybody. But you needn't think he ain't good to me!" she concluded, reaching after the crutch. "Don't go yet, Louise.
The clown, seemingly envious of this success, made ostentatious preparations for doing the like; and then, taking the preliminary run with immense energy, stopped short on reaching the first horse, and pretended to wipe some dust from its haunches.
She opened it, haphazard, and read. And presently she came to this, reading of the crosses and trials and sorrows of life: "And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death; neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain." His eyes were fixed upon her with so radiant a light, so infinite a thankfulness, that she could read no more.
It will wipe me out completely. Put some one out there of your own choosing, if you can't trust me, but don't make me sell with the bottom out of the market!" "You've got the bank's decision," he responded, coldly. "Please please reconsider! Just give me a chance you won't be sorry!
Henry Osling is telling his son the plan of vengeance. "We will wipe out the old score to-night," he is saying. "When the express starts up the grade, we will send a ton of Paradise Powder down to meet it." "How will it explode?" asks the son. "How? Why, by the collision with the engine." "But it may not go off," suggests the invalid. "You had better make sure by using dynamite.
"Can we fight in this storm, sir, even if we manage to release our sailors?" asked Jack, very dismally. "Not what we can, but what we must do," growled the stubborn British mariner. "The shame of striking my colors rankles like a wound. God helping me, we shall wipe out that stain if we drown in a sinking ship. I talk to you as a man, Master Cockrell, for such you have proven yourself.
Throw a handful of salt into a pot of boiling water. When it boils very hard, put in the prawns. Let them boil a quarter of an hour, and when you take them out lay them on a sieve to drain, and then wipe them on a dry cloth, and put them aside till quite cold. Lay a handful of curled parsley in the middle of a dish.
You can trust your dad to tell the absolute truth. In this fight that 'll wipe out some of the Isbels maybe all of them you're on the side of justice an' right. Knowin' that, a man can fight a hundred times harder than he who knows he is a liar an' a thief." The old rancher wiped his perspiring face and breathed slowly and deeply. Jean sensed in him the rise of a tremendous emotional strain.
What's more, there was now all the more reason to keep himself hidden as he was covered in the dust that lay everywhere in his room and flew up at the slightest movement; he carried threads, hairs, and remains of food about on his back and sides; he was much too indifferent to everything now to lay on his back and wipe himself on the carpet like he had used to do several times a day.
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