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Ke, as we abbreviated him, strode into an unbroken forest, grown with dense underbrush, strewn with fallen trees at almost every step, diversified by swamps and thickets through which he beat his way by main strength, and now and then traversed by rivers all streams are rivers there into which he plunged with never an interrogation-mark, and so on briskly, up hill and down, till, with three miles of walking, wading, climbing and struggling, we were brought to bay, tired out.
A track of iron, bearing the abbreviated name of the rapids and the mission, penetrates the forests and swamps from which that savage congregation was gathered in the first great non-religious convocation on the shores of the western lakes where men with the scholarship of the Sorbonne now march every year with emblems of learning on their shoulders.
Crawley shook up her chintz cushions, she looked across at the Candle a long look that took in the elaborate golden hair, the much too smart blouse, the abbreviated skirt showing the high-heeled slippers, the crowd of callow youths and then, smiling slightly to herself, settled down in her chair. I grew hot all over for the Candle. I don't suppose I need trouble myself.
I shall not attempt to quote these people in their own abbreviated tongue you would have even greater difficulty in interpreting them than did I. Instead, I shall put the words into their mouths which will carry to you the ideas which they intended to convey. "You are an enemy," was Gr-gr-gr's initial declaration. "You belong to the tribe of Hooja." Ah! So they knew Hooja and he was their enemy!
She insisted on taking her turns at walking, and when he breathed the panting mares on the steep, and Saxon stood by their heads caressing them and cheering them, Billy's joy was too deep for any turn of speech as he gazed at his beautiful horses and his glowing girl, trim and colorful in her golden brown corduroy, the brown corduroy calves swelling sweetly under the abbreviated slim skirt.
He glanced down his beard, and, after a moment of thoughtful silence, handed to Razumov a half-sheet of notepaper an abbreviated note of matters already discussed, certain points of inquiry, the line of conduct agreed on, a few hints as to personalities, and so on. It was the only compromising document in the case, but, as Councillor Mikulin observed, "it could be easily destroyed. Mr.
There was a small deal table against the window. It was covered with an abbreviated cloth. Celia walked about setting this table for Seth and herself, laying with palpable reluctance the extra plate, cup, saucer, knife and fork. Her movements were no longer girlish. They were heavy and slow. When tea was ready she bade Seth draw up his chair.
He had dug up one lemming a sort of square-ended relation of the rat, with an abbreviated tail and pounced upon one pigmy owl, scarce as large as a thrush, which he did not seem to relish much perhaps owl is an acquired taste before he turned a wild cat out of its lair to the accompaniment of a whole young riot of spitting and swearing and curled up for the day.
She had been christened Aholibama a name which she told me was taken out of some story-book, though I afterwards found that it was in the Bible but this being too long an appellation, they had abbreviated it to Holly. During a hasty glance into the cheerful kitchen, I caught a glimpse of a very nice-looking colored woman, who, I afterwards found, was Sylvia, the cook.
I should have come down to you, but I've been so busy all the morning that I thought you wouldn't mind a summons. Have you brought Grace?" "She is with Nina," said the Rector, and sat heavily down in the easy-chair opposite to that from which the Squire had risen. He was a big man, with a big face, clean shaven except for a pair of abbreviated side whiskers.
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