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But here we are. Don't you be the least bit afraid of my wife. She is big and blustery, but has a heart of gold." The rugged outside of this man evidently hid a heart of his own not far from pure gold, and Dagmar could not help thinking he was the nicest policeman she had ever heard of, and that she had encountered him seemed nothing short of wonderfully good luck.
Strangely incongruous it did undoubtedly look; yet the stages by which it had descended from its stand in the milliner's show-room and alighted upon the head of the little wandering-witted tramp, were much fewer than might have been supposed probable. One blustery March morning when Mrs.
There had been little to do in and around the store, so I was taking the excuse to row over to Clarks' with their supplies, intending to bring back any eggs they might have for my camp requirements. It was a cold, blustery morning, with a high, whistling wind coming in from the Gulf.
It was only the tail of a storm which had been blowing furiously in Scotland and the north of England, and no one as yet knew the extent of its destructive force. The morning after that night of howling winds was dull and blustery, with frequent gusts of rain. 'How lucky we didn't go in for a picnic! said Horatio, as the slanting drops lashed the windows at breakfast time.
The next day Mollie telephoned for all of her chums to gather at her house for a sort of farewell tea some of the friends of the girls wished to tender to them. It was a cold, snowy, blustery day, and as Grace, wrapped in her furs, walked shiveringly along with Amy and Betty she remarked: "I can almost envy Will now down where it is nice and warm." "Oh, we'll soon be there," answered Betty.
He had the pleasure of the mate's company at dinner, the captain remaining on deck until Hobbs had finished and gone up to relieve him; and by that time Kirkwood likewise was through. Stryker blew down with a blustery show of cheer. "Well, well, my little man!" "About as much as you'd expect," snapped Kirkwood. "Ow?" The captain began to shovel food into his face.
The blustery afternoon settled into a calm as the sun went down, and a change came with the night. The sufferer's mind flitted back for a moment, and in that speck of time he spoke not, but he gave his friend a look of gratitude. All was over. During the night DeGolyer sat alone by the bedside. And a ship came at morning. A kind-hearted priest offered his services.
If it were some one more resolute than Erik, a fighter, an artist with bearded surly lips They're only in books. Is that the real tragedy, that I never shall know tragedy, never find anything but blustery complications that turn out to be a farce? "No one big enough or pitiful enough to sacrifice for. Tragedy in neat blouses; the eternal flame all nice and safe in a kerosene stove.
We were talking about what it is like to spend one's childhood in little towns like these, buried in wheat and corn, under stimulating extremes of climate: burning summers when the world lies green and billowy beneath a brilliant sky, when one is fairly stifled in vegetation, in the color and smell of strong weeds and heavy harvests; blustery winters with little snow, when the whole country is stripped bare and gray as sheet-iron.
Hastings stopped him with a whisper: "That's exactly what he'll do soon!" He led the sheriff into the hall. They went into the parlour. "Now," Hastings began, in genial tone; "did you get anything from him?" "Not a dad-blamed thing!" Crown was still blustery. "But he'll talk before I'm through! You can put your little bets down on that!" "All right. You've had your chance at him.
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