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Updated: June 1, 2025
Then Bo sat bolt-upright, with pale face and flashing eyes. "Harve Riggs, you leave Nell alone," she burst out, in ringing, brave young voice. "I'll tell you what I'll bet if you follow her and nag her any more, my uncle Al or some cowboy will run you out of the country." "Hello, Pepper!" replied Riggs, coolly. "I see your manners haven't improved an' you're still wild about cowboys."
She said the words slowly, standing bolt-upright, at her greatest height, as she spoke them, and looking her aunt full in the face with something of defiance both in her eyes and in the tone of her voice.
The space between the decks was small; and there, bolt-upright, sat old Bildad, who always sat so, and never leaned, and this to save his coat tails. His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
A little white hand was shaken to him from the window, and a sweet, innocent face leaned forward a face with dark, eyes and golden hair, lit up with a radiant smile. That face for the moment was New York to Margaret, and New York seemed a vain show. Carmen threw herself back in her seat as if weary. Mrs. Eschelle sat bolt-upright. "What in the world, child, made you go on so tonight?"
"On the mountain, your Reverence, but a few varas from where he attacked you." "How? you saw him then?" asked the Padre, in unfeigned astonishment. "Saw him, your Reverence! Mother of God, I should think I did! And your Reverence shall see him too, if he ever comes again within range of Ignacio's arquebuse." "What mean you, Ignacio?" said the Padre, sitting bolt-upright in his litter.
Miss Dove paused for a moment, and then decided that she would let the question in dispute go by for the present. She began to question Kathleen as to her acquirements, and found that she must leave her with the younger children for the time being. She then went on to attend to other duties. Kathleen sat bolt-upright in the centre of the class.
He was one of those rolling-stone Englishmen, whose early lives are spent in all parts of the world, and in all kinds of physical conflict a man like a hickory stick, tall, thin, bolt-upright, knotty, hard as nails, with a curved fighting back to his head and a straight fighting front to his brown face.
Go straight on till you come to the devil's great-grandmother, and then you've only got to ask your way to the hairy one." Pelle stood for a while in the yard below and considered. So Father Lasse had gone away! And wanted to marry, or was perhaps already married. And to Karna, of course. He stood bolt-upright, sunk in intimate memories.
All but Mark, who, after sleeping for some hours, woke suddenly to find himself sitting bolt-upright in bed, and staring at the broken window in front of him, through which a flood of moonlight was pouring. He was as certain as he could be of anything that he had seen a face at that window as he started up a wild, haggard face, framed by long unkempt hair.
For in the strong arms of the law sat, bolt-upright, Elnathan Daniel Kittredge, his yellow head actively turning about, his face decorated with a grin, and on most congenial terms with the sheriff. "They're lawin' 'bout'n him in thar " the sheriff jerked his thumb toward the door. "Habeas corpus perceedin's. Dun no ez I ever see a friskier leetle cuss.
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