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After the concert was over, Antonia brought out a big boxful of photographs: she and Anton in their wedding clothes, holding hands; her brother Ambrosch and his very fat wife, who had a farm of her own, and who bossed her husband, I was delighted to hear; the three Bohemian Marys and their large families. 'You wouldn't believe how steady those girls have turned out, Antonia remarked.
It was a comfort to remember that Trix's vocation kept her out of the house for the greater part of the day, for it would be distinctly trying to be "bossed" as a permanent thing. Perhaps Trix's thoughts had wandered to the same subject, for her welcome was the reverse of encouraging. "Can't think what you've come back for!" she declared candidly.
It come down at the last minute and he bossed the job of gettin' it aboard. "Wouldn't let a man touch it, but had his own chinks from shore-side get it aboard with slings from the davits, and watched 'em stow it in the storeroom. It ain't in the hold. When I come across the key to the room I made up my mind I'd have a look at it. Tinned milk! Marked tinned milk! I say tinned milk hell!
Sholto had some difficulty in making himself heard athwart the ponderous wooden gates, bossed with leather and studded with iron. At first he shouted angrily to the silences, but presently nearer and nearer came a bellow as of a brazen bull, thunderous and far echoing. "Fower o' the clock and a braw, braw morning."
"Married six hours, and bossed already," grumbled Jack happily. "All right. But that bit of a squab I ate was nothing. I'm starved. I'll be back in five minutes and then we'll get a real supper down in the kitchen." "Yes, all three of us," agreed Mary. Jack picked up his bag. Frantically Mrs.
The weather was bright and warm, and he wore no cloak, but only his closely knit coat of chain mail, with his brass helmet, crested with a winged dragon, and his bossed shield.
They assured him profanely that they were with him to the "finish" whatever it might be. After which Hollis departed to the ranchhouse. He found Mrs. Norton to be a pleasant faced woman of twenty-seven or eight, who had according to Norton "bossed him for seven years." Norton grinned hugely over his wife's embarrassed protest.
You see, I " "I thought you were an engineer?" "I am after a fashion. Graduate of Yale " "Ever had any actual, practical experience?" "Only field work in college." "Ever had any experience handlin' men? Ever bossed a gang of men?" "No." "Ever do any kind of construction work?" "In college " "Forget what you did with a four-eyed professor standin' over you!
It was a noble hall hung round with tapestry and bossed with Highland targets, trophies of arms and the mountain chase; from the gallery round it drooped little banners with the devices of all those generations of great families that mingled in the blood of MacCailen Mor.
"When I came to, Saxtorph was sitting helplessly on the rail, waiting to ask me what he should do. I told him to overhaul the wounded and see if there were any able to crawl. He gathered together six. One, I remember, had a broken leg; but Saxtorph said his arms were all right. I lay in the shade, brushing the flies off and directing operations, while Saxtorph bossed his hospital gang.
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