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Updated: May 23, 2025
Of course you could kill them if you liked, but everybody ain't such a swell as you are with a gun; and mind you, it's uncommonly awkward to catch the right moment for firing, when the bird goes bobbing up and down on the waves, disappearing altogether every second second. I think it's very good fun myself.
It was easy to be tolerably exact in this observation, for their shining white heads made them very conspicuous amongst the rest, bobbing up and down as the column passed over the inequalities of the road.
At the river front an army of men moved like loaded ants over the dikes. Beyond them the eye could mark the boiling yellow of the Spider, its winding channel marked through the waste of waters by whirling driftwood, bobbing wreckage and plunging trees sweepings of a thousand angry miles.
Supper was a huge bowl of soup, with big slices of brown bread swimming in it and some onions bobbing up and down: the bowl was soon emptied by ten wooden spoons, and then the three eldest boys slipped off to bed, being tired with their rough bodily labour in the snow all day, and Dorothea drew her spinning-wheel by the stove and set it whirring, and the little ones got August down upon the old worn wolfskin and clamoured to him for a picture or a story.
They themselves were at the station now, and Billy was still tying his cravat. Now they jumped down and pressed through the confusion, dodging dragomans, porters, drivers and hotel runners and making a vigorous way past hurrying travelers and through bewildered blockades of tourist parties. Suddenly over the bobbing heads they saw the face they sought. A single eye glared significance upon them.
Your Excellency will pardon the children, he continued, bobbing round me, as I took the old seat on the three-legged stool before the hearth. 'The night is cold and there is no fire in your room. While he ran to and fro with my cloak and bags, little Gil, to whom I had stood at St Sulpice's, borrowing ten crowns the same day, I remember, came shyly to play with my sword hilt.
As though they were on one side against a common enemy, and that enemy was her father. The old woman was cackling sharply from the bottom of the stairs, and then bobbing in pursuit and calling on Donnegan to come back. At length the girl raised her hand and silenced her with a gesture. Donnegan was now hardly a pace away; and he saw that she lived up to all the promise of that first glance.
This was evidently a mere temporary protection of the burrow, I reasoned, while the digger had departed in search of prey, and my surmise was soon proved to be correct, as I observed the wasp, with bobbing abdomen and flipping wings, zigzagging about the vicinity.
I shall hope to have the pleasure of your company aboard the Victory when I sail." Kit tried to thank him, failed, and went over the side. "Good-bye, Harry." The two old friends stood eye to eye, hand to hand, the great sea wide about them and the lugger bobbing beneath. "Good-bye, Nelson," said the Parson, and added, "Good luck." The other smiled. "Trust Nelson," he said. They cast off.
"See, that must be the tug!" exclaimed Isabelle, pushing up her veil to kiss her husband. "Good-by I wish you were going, too I shall miss you so be sure you exercise and keep thin!"... She watched the two men climb down into the bobbing tug and take places beside the pilot room, her tall, square-shouldered husband, and the slighter man, leaning on a cane, both looking up at her with smiles.
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