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Moggridge felt he might afford a home away from his shop, and thus he came to take the biggish empty house which presently put on new paint and once more seemed quite proud of being "Zion View." Till this time, Mr.
She and the youngsters have been staying with her old folk while I was away. So we are a biggish party, and if you want anything done on the voyage you have only got to say the word to me." The weather was fine, and Tom Wade found the voyage more pleasant than he had expected.
Along the Berg at strategic points were pickets of police with native trackers, and at Blaauwildebeestefontein there was a strong force with two field guns, for there was some fear of a second Kaffir army marching by that place to Inanda's Kraal. At Wesselsburg out on the plain there was a biggish police patrol, and a system of small patrols along the road, with a fair number of Basuto scouts.
"What do you see now?" said the professor, touching his forehead. "Oh, ah, I see now," said Simon. "It's a railway station, and I see that 'ere willain there, jest as cunnin' as ever. He's a gettin' in the train, he is." "Can you see the name of the station?" "No, I can't. It's a biggish place it is, and I can't see no name. Stay a minute, though. I see now." "Well, what's the name?"
From the top we could see right away to the forest of Compiègne, but a judicious bit of scouting produced nothing. Coming down we heard from a passing car that H.Q. were to be at Crêpy-en-Valois, a biggish old place about four miles away to the south the other side of Béthancourt. We arrived there just as the sun was going to set.
By this time they had a biggish fund of money for the support of strikes, and could stop a certain industry altogether for a time if they so determined." Said I: "Was there not a serious danger of such moneys being misused of jobbery, in fact?"
"I said: 'I'll give you ten marks for it. I thought, maybe, he would end by taking twenty. "He rose. I took it he was coming round the counter to get the book out. Instead, he came straight up to me. He was a biggish sort of man. He took me by the two shoulders, walked me out into the street, and closed the door behind me with a bang. I was never more surprised in all my life.
Far north of the Missouri beyond the borderlands flows the Saskatchewan. As far north again, beyond the Saskatchewan, flows another great river, the Athabasca, into Athabasca Lake, on whose blue shores to the north lies a little white-washed fort of some twenty log houses, large barn-like stores, a Catholic chapel, an Episcopal mission, and a biggish residence of pretence for the chief trader.
Christine's getting a bit biggish for 'im to 'andle; I daresay this is the last season for their double act. But for four seasons she's been doing amazing fine work with old Tom. She seems to like it, and she's as daring as the very old Nick. Don't know wot fear is, I might say. She's so fairy-like and so purty that the crowds just naterally love 'er to death.
Collingwood picked up the book which the boy indicated a thick, substantially bound volume, inside one cover of which was a linen pocket, wherein were some loose maps and plans of Barford. "These what he took out?" he asked, holding them up. "Yes, sir, but there was another paper, with writing on it a biggish sheet of paper written all over." "Did you see what the writing was?
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