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"Yes, I believe it. But, Philip, I wish you wouldn't talk about it to-day. I'm tired of " "Of having men tell you how much they love you? Poor little Patty! I'm afraid you'll have to put up with that all your life." "Oh, horrible!" and Patty made a wry face. "I suppose some girls like it, but I don't." "I'll tell you a way to avoid it, Patty.
He remembered, from collegiate hours, the passion of the Greeks for sheer earthly strength and loveliness Helen and Menelaus, Sappho on the green promontories of Lesbos. At the time of his reading he had maintained a wry brow ... now Elim Meikeljohn could comprehend the siege of Troy. He said aloud, without thinking and instantly aghast at his words: "You are like a bodied song."
Nerves at terrible tension in that big, splendid body. A slight quiver seemed to run over him. Then he was erect and calmly himself again, standing in a listening attitude. "That's the Panther?" he said. "Pulling in to the Waterbug's landing. Did I startle you when I bounced up like a cougar, Stella?" he asked, with a wry smile. "I guess I was half asleep. That whistle jolted me."
"Rather odd, isn't it, that the brigand Cojuelo should have married you when he was mortally wounded, and that you should have promised to marry Don Carlos, yet married the brigand although you were engaged to Tony?" "Yes, perhaps it does seem rather odd, aunt," admitted Myra, her eyes twinkling. "Decidedly odd!" her aunt commented, with a wry smile.
Drawing a deep breath, and shaking his head with a wry smile, he spoke in hoarse confidence to the image of himself in the dingy mirror: "They nearly had me, that time." Again, he poured, and drank. The whisky steadied him for the moment, and with bottle and glass still in hand, he regarded himself in the mirror with critical interest.
So when the time came " the grin on the Traveling Salesman's mouth grew just a little bit wry at one corner "and so when the time came it was an awful nice, sweet-smelling June night, I remember, and I'd come home early I walked into the kitchen as nice as pie, where Pa was sitting dozing in the cat's rocking-chair, in his gray stocking feet, and I threw down before him my full year's school report.
Make a wry path through your fields, and still you'll walk in it! I never ought to ha' got in the habit of lending you that key. What's the good of a key if a man can never keep it in his pocket? When I lived up at Mr. Daniel Mortimer's, the children never had my key never." "Well, come with us, then, and give us out the pears yourself. We won't take one."
In the hope that some diascordium would relieve me, the good old man runs to his room and brings it, but while he has gone for some water I hide the medicine. After half an hour of wry faces, I say that I feel much better, and thanking all my friends, I beg them to retire, which everyone does, wishing me a quiet sleep.
Going up to him, she said kindly: "I know just how you feel. Sit down, Jim." He took a seat near the table, and accepted a dry cracker which she offered him. As he munched it, Laura went on: "It's pretty tough for me, but it must be a whole lot worse for you, with a wife and kids." The agent made a wry face. "Oh, if a man's alone he can generally get along turn his hand to anything. But a woman "
Thinking of the story of the candle-stick, with his mouth twisted into a queer, wry smile, Philip fumbled for his pipe. "Requiescat in pace," said Philip, "the hopes of Philip Poynter!" Southward under the watery moon and the wild, dark clouds rode the Indian girl, following a trail blazed only for Indian eyes.
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