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And the prettiest women, the best fellows, the greatest all-night life, the finest cooking, the wickedest climate. Here's to San Francisco and damn the bounder that calls her 'Frisco!" Then he drank what was left of the contents of his glass and hastily refilled it. After he had finished the bottle luxuriously, he held out his hand to Isabel. "Come along?" he asked.
While he was feeding Win broth, he fell asleep with the spoon in his hand. He jerkily flung back his head and opened his eyes. Cuffy still lay close to the prisoner, evidently prepared for an all-night vigil with short light naps from which the least movement would instantly arouse him. "I'm all in. Got to get some sleep," Morse said to himself, half aloud. He wrapped in his blankets.
Power business naturally shows a still better load factor, say 35 per cent., and the all-night restaurant has a load factor of 48 per cent. You will see from this that the great desideratum of the central station system is, from the investors' point of view, the necessity of getting customers for your product whose business is of such a character as to call for a low maximum and long average use.
Felix was going to have an all-night sitting in the kitchen. He had been looking forward to an all-night sitting for many years, and now he had got his chance. It was a magnificent opportunity "without your mother, my dear, to insist on my sleeping." And staring at his smile, Nedda thought: 'He's like Granny he comes out under difficulties. If only I did!
He brought her down here and married her. Every rainy season they go back to Paris and run race-horses, and they say the best table in every all-night restaurant is reserved for him. In Paris they call her the Ivory Queen. She's killed seventeen elephants with her own rifle." In the Upper Congo, Everett had seen four white women.
"And you, please, have the boys carry down the whale- boat my boat, you know. I'll be off in an hour." Both Sheldon and Tudor looked at their watches. "It's an all-night row," Sheldon said. "You might wait till morning " "And miss my shopping? No, thank you. Besides, the Upolu is not a regular passenger steamer, and she is just as liable to sail ahead of time as on time.
Clay and Calhoun passed from their discussion of national finances into an acrimonious reciprocal review of the acts, votes, and motions of each other during the preceding thirty years. During the debate in the House on the bill authorizing the issue of Treasury notes there was an all-night session.
Here Mac threw away his ticket to Amsterdam and I gave him mine to Brussels. At the depot I purchased a ticket to London via Ostend. We left Cologne all right, and at the first station out I alighted and joined him. We had a pleasant all-night journey, arriving very early the next morning at Ostend. How lovely the sea looked, with the morning sun shining on its restless waves!
There was exceptionally good opportunity for observing this display, since it occurred during an all-night journey, the night of the 6th of April, 1912, with brilliant starlight but no moon while we were hastening to reach Eagle for Easter.
The wife was longer in discovering the truth, but a certain morning, as her husband lay sleeping after an all-night sitting with a patient, she saw lying beside him it had dropped from his waistcoat pocket a little bottle full of a dark liquid. She knew that he always carried his medicine-phials in a pocket-case. She got the case, and saw that none was missing.
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