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And what an expansion that was, to be sure! when you take into account the display of white teeth and red gums by which it was accompanied. "Well, now, Quash," resumed Lawrence, "what did you do after that?" "Arter what, massa?" "After finding that slobbering and wringing your hands did no good." "Oh! arter dat, I not know what to do, an' den I tried to die I was so mis'rable. But I couldn't.
'From Windsor? no, said James; 'but set me in the saddle, let me learn war under such a captain as yourself, and maybe they will not take the field against me; or if they do, the slayer of Clarence shall rue it. 'Be it so, said Henry, wringing his hand. 'You shall with me to France, Jamie, and see war.
She embraced Yegorushka, wetted his face with her tears, and broke down completely. "Heavens!" she said, wringing her hands, "Olga's little boy! How delightful! He is his mother all over! The image of his mother! But why are you standing in the yard? Come indoors." Crying, gasping for breath and talking as she went, she hurried towards the house. Her visitors trudged after her.
Looking out of the window into the garden, I heard, for the only time in my life, the wild Irish keen over the dead, and saw the old nurse wailing and wringing her hands and hurrying to the house. As soon as she entered she told me, with a burst of grief, and in language I shall not try to imitate, that Miss Patty was dead.
Lucy knew not while she listened, half in fear, half in admiration, to her singular relation, that at the very moment he thus spoke, his disease was preying upon him in one of its most relentless moods, without the power of wringing from him a single outward token of his torture.
"Why, it's Rod Palmer, our working mate on the rings!" cried Phil, dropping his bag and darting across the tracks, where he had espied a shock of very red hair that he knew could belong only to Rodney Palmer. Teddy strolled over with rather more dignity. "Howdy?" he greeted just as Phil and the red-haired boy were wringing each other's hands. "Anybody'd think you two were long lost brothers."
"I don't want him for a friend, and you're dead wrong if you think I could make this a lever to square myself with the law. I couldn't. He wouldn't let me, for one thing he isn't that kind." "And you said you cared for me!" she repeated helplessly, wringing her hands in her despair. "But at the first chance you fail me." "Can't you see it isn't a personal matter?
Then at length Archelaus succeeded in wringing from his obstinate master a reluctant consent to the treaty; for which he was subsequently regarded with an evil eye at court as the author of the injurious peace, and even accused of treason, so that some time afterwards he found himself compelled to leave the country and to take refuge with the Romans, who readily received him and loaded him with honours.
Think long, Dinah Shadd, for you'll niver have another tho' you pray till your knees are bleedin'. The mothers av childher shall mock you behind your back when you're wringing over the wash-tub. You shall know what ut is to help a dhrunken husband home an' see him go to the gyard-room. Will that plase you, Dinah Shadd, that won't be seen talkin' to my daughter?
She could never be his, he said; and with his love he waged a mighty battle a battle which lasted days and nights, wringing from him more than one bitter moan, as with his face bowed in his hands he murmured sadly, the mournful words, "It might have been."
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