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We had a quiet and agreeable passage, and crossed the slides at five o'clock in the morning, amid exclamations of unbounded delight from all the children, to whom the mountain scenery was a new and amazing thing. We reached Hollidaysburg about eleven o'clock, and at two o'clock in the night were called up to get into the cars at Jacktown.
The governor and his guests were by this time seated, and instantly all eyes were focused on Desmond, and exclamations of astonishment broke from their lips. "Indeed! Bring chairs, Hossain." One of the native attendants left the room noiselessly, and returning with chairs placed them at the table. "Sit down, gentlemen. This is amazing news, as you say, Mr. Johnson. Perhaps Mr.
But all I heard pointed in the one direction. The amazing strength, the skill in the use of the harpoon, the rum and water, the sealskin tobacco-pouch with the coarse tobacco all these pointed to a seaman, and one who had been a whaler.
But his suggestion of Burke's double-dealing had given me an idea which was clearing away one dark corner of the puzzle: the possibility was opening up more rapidly. I looked at him shrewdly. I asked. He gave me a quick glance. "It was amazing. "No." "Did you ever see the replica?" I asked. "Yes, many times.
It is simply amazing, when you consider it, the amount of talent shown in what are called the ordinary businesses of life. It has been often remarked with how little wisdom the world is governed. That is the reason it is so easy to govern.
After all she is very shortsighted, and you may have changed in the last four years." Antoinette presented him to the Princess, who examined him with her little, blinking eyes, and smiled on him kindly and calmly. "What luck! What amazing luck!" he thought. "She is now as blind as an owl. If only I can escape from talking to her, I'm safe."
It was indeed one of those amazing things which happen only in real life, and the whole of the Tribe with one exception voted a grand coup to each of the hunters. Guy was utterly contemptuous. "They got so close they hit by chance an' didn't know they done it. If he had been shooting," etc., etc., etc. "How about that screech in the tree-tops, Guy?" "Errrrh."
As the sun rose in all the splendor of an unclouded sky in the east, the objects in the west became suddenly elongated vertically, the long rank grass stretching to an amazing altitude, while its various hues of green were reflected with vivid accuracy.
Just stared for a moment, and passed on! Hypnotism is a fact; a word or a situation will create this peculiar state of mind. Father and son! The phrase actually hypnotized Jane, and she remained in the clutch of it until hours later, which may account for the amazing events into which she permitted herself to be drawn. Father and son!
I want to go over to Ireland and travel about a little. The Pothercareys want us to come. They've asked us twice...." Benham braced himself to face fresh difficulties. It was amazing how different the world could look from his mother's little parlour and from the crest of the North Downs. "But I want to start round the world," he cried with a note of acute distress.
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