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He deftly drew off the cloth, and displayed to Bersenyev's eyes a statuette in Dantan's style, also of Insarov. Anything cleverer and more spiteful could not be imagined. The young Bulgarian was represented as a ram standing on his hind-legs, butting forward with his horns.
So if you don't mind butting into a baby-show we'll run down. It's only the younger bunch from Hitherwood House and Brookminster. What do you say, Phil?" Selwyn said that he would go hesitating before consenting. A curious feeling of age and grayness had suddenly come over him a hint of fatigue, of consciousness that much of life lay behind him.
If the American workman were to insist upon butting his American temperament into his labour union machinery, what would his labour machinery in America soon begin to show that an American labourer was like? I imagine it might work out something like this: The thoughtful workman looks about him.
My grandmother rose solemnly from her seat, patted Agnes Anne on the top-knot of her hair, shook hands with John MacAlpine, nodded meaningly at my mother, and said, "Come along, young lass," in a tone which showed that the aged shepherdess had unexpectedly found a lamb whom she long counted lost absolutely butting against the door of the sheep-fold. This was the apotheosis of Agnes Anne.
The lights were out, and nothing was visible. They groped their way to the peak ladder, and were nearly dead with fright when they reached the deck. When they had sufficiently recovered, they said that there was something in the peak alive, which kept butting up against them. They were sure it wasn't a man, and that it must be something evil.
Caroline, frantic with humiliation and shame, would have protested again, but her guardian's stern shake of the head silenced her. "Well, Mr. Dunn," turning to the groom-to-be; "you're one of the interested parties what do you say?" Malcolm ground his heel into the rug. "I don't consider it your business," he declared. "You're butting in where " "No, no, I ain't.
At long rifle range, he circled and faced the thing that had scared him so, and after a little Jean persuaded him to go back as far as the trail. Nearer he would not stir, so she waited there for Lite. "Never even thanked us," Lite grumbled when he came up, his mouth stretched in a wide smile. "That girl with the kalsomine on her face made remarks about folks butting in.
Go wash that blood off, and we'll send 'em both down to Night Court. You've done yourself out of your relief butting in this way. Take a tip from me, and let these rummies fight it out among themselves after this as long as they don't mix up with somebody worth while." Burke wiped his eye with the back of his cold hand. It was not snow which had melted there.
He chased the sheep into a corner of the enclosure, and proceeded to belabour them with a heavy stick. The cheviot, however, bolder than Tom had supposed, turned at bay, made a heavy rush at him, and butting him aside bounded over the low wall, followed by all the flock. Tom was soon on his feet, and with his dog he gave chase.
Seeing always a little further than other people whence the most considerable fortune of all the Forsytes he had perceived already that Buller was not the man 'a bull of a chap, who just went butting, and if they didn't look out Ladysmith would fall. This was early in December, so that when Black Week came, he was enabled to say to everybody: 'I told you so. During that week of gloom such as no Forsyte could remember, very young Nicholas attended so many drills in his corps, 'The Devil's Own, that young Nicholas consulted the family physician about his son's health and was alarmed to find that he was perfectly sound.
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