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He was, as has been said, standing on Rocinante, with his arm passed through the hole and his wrist tied to the bolt of the door, and in mighty fear and dread of being left hanging by the arm if Rocinante were to stir one side or the other; so he did not dare to make the least movement, although from the patience and imperturbable disposition of Rocinante, he had good reason to expect that he would stand without budging for a whole century.
He said that he had always felt like a member of the rank and file, and now he had his chance to travel along the road the ordinary man had to follow, under ordinary circumstances to go right on along the road and ignore the difficulties that were ahead. He was an old man, broken in health, facing, without flinching, without budging an eyelid, a possibility of twenty years in jail.
So there he sat, and there is no knowing how long he might have remained without budging had not a fresh danger supervened; the hole in which he sat suddenly began to fill with water. Higher and higher rose the tide till it reached his very mouth, and he was forced to pull himself up to the top of the cask to escape drowning.
But, you see, I am not fair and square. I am as stubborn as a mule." "The best thing about a mule is that he takes his whalings without complaining." She sighed. "I often wonder what a mule thinks about when he stands there without budging while some angry, infuriated man beats him until his arm gets tired." "That's very simple. He just goes on thinking what a fool the man is for licking a mule."
When he found he couldn't it being locked so good there was no budging it he got worse jolted, and his breath seemed to be coming hard. The Hen got a-hold of him again and done some more shivers, and then she says: "It all will be over, one way or the other, in a very few moments now.
The chrysalis rolled over, but made no other sign. "Up, boys!" cried Peter, never budging. "Ludwig! Lambert! Donder! Are you all dead?" Dead? Not they! Van Mounen and Ben were on their feet in an instant. "Hey! What now?" they shouted. "I've got a robber here," said Peter coolly. "Lie still, you scoundrel, or I'll slice your head off!
But he continued, without budging from the gangway, "Och aye, we're getting in plenty; but my God, didn't Mrs. Blank o' Dungannon bate all? Did ye hear about her?" "No, I never heard of Mrs. Blank of Dungannon. But do hurry along, my good man; you're keeping back all the passengers." "What! ye never heard o' Mrs. Blank o' Dungannon? Wait now till I tell ye. Mrs.
He was, as has been said, standing on Rocinante, with his arm passed through the hole and his wrist tied to the bolt of the door, and in mighty fear and dread of being left hanging by the arm if Rocinante were to stir one side or the other; so he did not dare to make the least movement, although from the patience and imperturbable disposition of Rocinante, he had good reason to expect that he would stand without budging for a whole century.
The general regarded him without interest, without budging; then, he said, very simply: "They have begun, they must finish." "Which is why perhaps," said One Eyed Dah-veed, looking two ways at once with his uncorrelated eyes, "the Germans entered Noyon...." But to return to Mexique.
Lady Lucy sat in pale endurance, throwing in an occasional protest, not budging by one inch and no doubt reminding herself from time to time, in the intervals of her old friend's attacks, of the letter she had just despatched to Beechcote until, at last, Lady Niton, having worked herself up into a fine frenzy to no purpose at all, thought it was time to depart.
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