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They bulge so interestingly, and make you an awfuller sight than all the rest of your funny things together," she replied, laughing at him. Successful at last, she produced the Browning pistol which Melchard had surrendered on the Roman road. "But it bumped horribly when I walked and it would always knock the same place on my knee. Oh, Dick, shall we ever get into clothes that'll feel nice again?"
She says if she has a dozen children of her own it will make no difference; she must have her first child's representative. She's about decided upon the one he's the most awful of them all. She's only hesitating to see if anything awfuller will turn up. She says she's going to take a baby no one else will have she's going to do the biggest thing she can for her own dead boy.
"What's that?" "Eat supper while we have the chance; Jerry is on hand with the provisions, and he may be somewhere else in the morning." "I'm glad of that," said the happy Dot, "for I'm awfuller hungry than I ever was in all my life." "Then supper it is." It was a wise proceeding on the part of the rancher.
Perhaps Yaqui Juan was creeping back to them now, the canteens of precious water hung about his neck, and perhaps he was dead. There had been no shots, but they would not necessarily shoot him. There were other ... awfuller ways. And Jimsy King was asleep. What would he be like when he wakened, when he came to himself again? Could he ever face her?
Macy for that ain't nothin' but the beginnin', whatever you may think, an' the rest gets awfuller an' awfuller! "In the first place talkin' so long for the minister made her have to run for the train, an' you know what Mrs. Macy is on a run. She said she got so hot, as she was not only on a run but mostly on a pour all the way to town.
So when Mary struggled back to wakefulness far enough to sit up and look around in a dazed way, the room seemed full of people and lights and voices, and she tried to ask what had happened. She was still sobbing and trembling. "What's the matter, Mary?" called Phil from the hall. "Were the Indians after you again?" "Oh, it was awfuller than Indians," wailed Mary, in a shrill, excited voice.
Never in any picture do I remember the like of those sad, brave, severe faces of the men standing up there to be shot, where already their friends lay dead at their feet. A tumbled top-hat in the foreground had an effect awfuller than a tumbled head would have had.
Still awfuller is it to see it rise and reach with those prehensile members, as with the tails of a multi-caudate ape, some rocky projection of its walls and lurk fearsomely into the hollow, and vanish there in a loathly quiescence.
Then I began to wonder what I was goin' to do, for things were gettin' awfuller and awfuller every instant, and the little boat was a-heavin' and a-pitchin' and a-rollin' and h'istin' itself up, first on one end and then on the other, to such an extent that if I hadn't kept tight hold of the rudder-handle I'd slipped off the seat I was sittin' on.
'A classification of authors to suit all hours and weathers might be amusing. Ariosto spans a wet afternoon like a rainbow. North winds and sleet agree with Junius. The visionary tombs of Dante glimmer into awfuller perspective by moonlight. Crabbe is never so pleasing as on the hot shingle, when we look up from his verses at the sleepy sea, and count the
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