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You're president of The Independent Workers of the World." Koppy glanced at him from beneath lowering brows, but Werner assumed a look of blankest innocence as he rolled himself a fresh cigarette. "Or," he reflected, "we might leave some one behind to blow it up after it's finished." "Never finished," declared Koppy. "The bosses must know the Workers have spoken."
"Well, there's lots of 'em need it," he said in his gruff voice. "There's the blankest lot of fools on these ranches you ever seen." Shock became alert. He was on the track of business. "What's wrong with them?" he enquired. "Wrong? Why, they aint got no sense. They stock up with cattle, horses, and outfit to beat creation, and then let the whole thing go to blazes."
For the first moment they held nothing but blankest surprise at finding herself in so extraordinary a position, but, even as the Captain held his breath in suspense, a spark of remembrance came into the clear depths, and the face lit up with a flickering merriment. "Were we drowned?" she whispered hoarsely. "The two of us? Viva jumped, and the boat slipped, and my feet went down. Who saved me?
Or it may be so commonly does the crassest credulity go hand in hand with the blankest scepticism he has discovered the germ of old age and is hot upon the track of another germ that shall destroy it, so that we may all live virtually as long as we like; which, of course, disposes once for all of a world to come.
That blank it all she reminded him of the blankest beautiful woman he had seen even in Washington old Major Beveridge's daughter from Kentucky. Were they sure she wasn't from Kentucky? Wasn't her name Beveridge and not Boompointer?
Even to-night at supper you seemed to be in some sort of far-off dream or other. You'd lift up a fork or a spoon and hold it a long time before you'd put it in your mouth, and once I caught you gazing straight at me with the blankest look I ever saw on a human face. You don't seem the same.
England, you must remember, is a civilised country, and taboos are institutions that belong to the lowest and most degraded savages." But Bertram Ingledew gazed at him in the blankest astonishment. "No taboos!" he exclaimed, taken aback. "Why, I've read of hundreds.
He was still engaged on the task when he started to call on her. Half-way to the house he arrived at the conclusion that he was looking too cheerful. His face took on an expression of deep seriousness, only to give way the next moment to one of the blankest amazement. In front of him, and approaching with faltering steps, was Mr.
It was the voice of a countryman more than that, it was a familiar voice, that he had not heard for three years the voice of Colonel Harry Pendleton! "Tell him," said Pendleton, in scathing tones, to some invisible interpreter, "tell, him, sir, that a more infamous caricature of the blankest caricature that ever maligned a free people, sir, I never before had the honor of witnessing.
And of course I thought no more about it till after a quarter of a century or so an opportunity offered to go there as if the sin of childish audacity were to be visited on my mature head. Yes. I did go there: there being the region of Stanley Falls, which in '68 was the blankest of blank spaces on the earth's figured surface.
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