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"I meant it was right fine of you to give me freedom behind the bars." Rathburn's taunting laugh rang in the official's ears as the latter pushed the men with him into the outer office. Rathburn listened, yawning, to the sheriff giving instructions that the prisoner be watched constantly. He looked about the cage which was separated from the other cell by a wall of sheet iron.
There's a thing about Abra-cadabra there, said Cyril, yawning. 'We may as well play at magic. Let's be Knights Templars. They were awfully gone on magic. They used to work spells or something with a goat and a goose. Father says so. 'Well, that's all right, said Robert, unkindly; 'you can play the goat right enough, and Jane knows how to be a goose. 'I'll get Ingoldsby, said Anthea, hastily.
"Ah," said the little man, yawning, "I shall have a long night's work of it. Have you another chaise and four in the yard?" "To be sure, sir, to be sure!" cried the landlord in astonishment. "Out with it, then! Another glass of brandy and water, a little stronger, no sugar!" The landlord stared; the barmaid stared; even the head-waiter, a very stately person, stared too.
"I'll tell you about that another time," whispered Jem; "and don't you go to see that cock's eyes pecked out; it won't make you merry, I'm sure." "If I had anything else to divert me," said Lawrence, hesitating and yawning.
The priest watched a few minutes longer, more or less held spell-bound with a kind of terror, for he saw that without doubt the great vessel was either purposely descending or being drawn into the vast abyss yawning black beneath it, and that falling thus it must be inevitably doomed to destruction.
Having attained the summit of happiness, what do we see at our feet?... a yawning abyss!... we have lost the steep path by which we so painfully reached the top; once there, we have no means of gradually descending the declivity ... from so great a height we cannot walk, we fall!
He had the grand manner too, and that quiet air of self-absorption which usually envelops the bearers of historic names. Dormer Colville watched him with a good-natured patience which pointed, as clearly as his attitude and yawning indifference, to the fact that he was not at Farlingford for his own amusement. Presently he lounged back again toward the Marquis and stood behind him.
There were few cadets who had escaped his scathing tongue when they had made a mistake and practically the entire student body had, at one time or another, singly and in unison, devoutly wished that a yawning hole would open up and swallow them when he began one of his infamous tirades. Even perfection in studies and execution by a cadet would receive a mere grunt from the cantankerous professor.
You requested this meeting," said Plank, yawning. "Certainly. I recollect it perfectly now. Will you sit here, Mr. Plank for a moment " "If it concerns Inter-County, it will take longer than a moment unless you cannot spare the time now," said Plank. "Shall we call it off?" "As a matter of fact I am rather short of time just now." "Then let us postpone it.
Of these reflexes the most notable are sucking and swallowing, but sneezing, coughing, choking, and hiccoughing may also be observed; stretching and yawning have been recorded in several instances, even during the first days of infant life. None of these movements, we must remember, are produced consciously; the baby cannot reason and does not recognize anyone, even its mother.
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