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Canada Bill was not well, so I had been doing the playing. Bill did the capping; and as he lost, their suspicion did not light on him. I suddenly had an idea. I rushed back into the hind sleeper, and gave the porter a five-dollar bill. "Tell them the door is locked, and I have the key," were my words. I was none too quick.
Clotilde corroborated his accurate recital of the lines of a contested verse of the incomparable Heinrich, and they fell to capping verses of the poet-lucid metheglin, with here and there no dubious flavour of acid, and a lively sting in the tail of the honey.
Subsequently this panelling was divided into an upper and a lower part, the former commencing about the height of the back of an ordinary chair, a moulding or chair-rail forming a capping to the lower part.
A thin bed of sandy earth, with small pebbles of various porphyries and of quartz, covering a low plain on the north side of the Rio Colorado, is the extreme northern limit of this formation. These little pebbles have probably been derived from the denudation of a more regular bed of gravel, capping the old tertiary sandstone plateau of the Rio Negro.
'No notion of lippin' of a navigable river a downright arm of the sea, added he, getting off. 'Forward! forward! screeched Mr. Sponge, capping the hounds on, when away they went, heads up and sterns down as before. 'Ay, for-rard! for-rard! mimicked Mr. Watchorn; adding, 'you're for-rard enough, at all events. After running about three-quarters of a mile at best pace, Mr.
At this stage of the growth of world geography I esteemed it a great piece of good fortune to be able to take part in such a feat a feat which represented the capping of the pyramid which during the previous seven years had been built by the labor of the Brazilian Telegraphic Commission. We had passed the period when there was a chance of peril, of disaster, to the whole expedition.
But the force of the poem and catholicity of its sanctions are either utterly destroyed or ridiculously enfeebled, by capping it with a sectarian and narrowly interpreted climax. Although the poem is so well known, I shall quote it here in the form preferred by its author;
It runs in a deep glen, the sides of which are almost five hundred yards of slope, and rocky, the rocks being hardened calcareous tufa lying on clay shale and sandstone below, with a capping of ferruginous conglomerate. The scenery would have been very pleasing, but fever took away much of the joy of life, and severe daily intermittents rendered me very weak and always glad to recline.
'Grant, O Chief! 'And yet will my people say no. 'Grant, and the wealth is thine. Then shall I deal with thy people after. 'The Wolf will have it so. I will take his tokens, but I would warn him. Mackenzie passed over the goods, taking care to clog the rifle's ejector, and capping the bargain with a kaleidoscopic silk kerchief.
Half an hour later the sun came up, like a great ball of fire from a bath in the ocean, capping the high waves with gold. As the light spread around them, Dick stood up on a seat and gazed eagerly in all directions. "What do you see?" demanded the others. "Nothing," he answered, with a sinking heart; "nothing but water on all sides of us."
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