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But if you're good we'll take you aboard, one man at a time, and you'll all be saved. What do you say?" "Ay," they chorused hoarsely between their chattering teeth. "Then one man at a time, and the short men first." The Centipede was the first to be pulled aboard, and he came willingly, though he objected when the constable put the handcuffs on him.
But Billy had him under thorough control, quiet enough to eat out of his hand. And when Billy pulled off the saddle he remarked casually to the astonished officers who had expected an inquest over him, "Out in my country that hoss would cut no figure, for out there we can ride anything with legs under it, even if it is a consarned centipede."
"Good night, David, you will call me if you want anything, won't you?" And Carol leaped into bed, desperately afraid a lizard, or a scorpion or a centipede might lie beneath in wait for unwary pink toes once the guarding lights were out. This was the land where health began, the land of pure light air, of clear and penetrating sunshine, the land of ruddy cheeks and bounding blood.
The pain was acute, the sensation that of having been bitten by some poisonous insect. Gerôme, ever the Job's comforter, suggested a centipede, adding, "If so, you will probably have to lie up for four or five days." The look-out was not cheerful, certainly, for at Mourghab, the first stage, I had to be lifted off my horse and carried into the post-house.
But if you're good, we'll take you aboard, one man at a time, and you'll all be saved. What do you say?" "Ay," they chorused hoarsely between their chattering teeth. "Then one man at a time, and the short men first." The Centipede was the first to be pulled aboard, and he came willingly, though he objected when the constable put the handcuffs on him.
"I understand that the river runs through this canyon over two hundred miles," the other replied. "And all the way there are scores, if not hundreds, of smaller canyons and 'washes, reaching out like the fingers of a whopping big hand; or the feelers of a centipede." "That's what I read about it away back; but I had forgotten," Bob remarked.
There is no sign of case or number: all has been reduced to an absolute simplicity, beyond which there is no going. Words can end with no consonant but the most rounded of all, the nasal liquids n and ng. There is about as much likeness to the Aryan and Semitic languages you can trace about as much analogy between them as you can between a centipede and a billiard-ball.
I will now confess that I was bitten by a centipede in my bath-house in Sungei Ujong, but I at once cut the bite deeply with a penknife, squeezed it, and poured ammonia recklessly over it, and in a few hours the pain and swelling went off. I had been to the fort, the large barrack of the military police, and Mr. Syers showed me many things.
For some smiles are like the ruddiness of certain apples, which is owing to a centipede, or other creeping thing, coiled up at the heart of them. Only her worm had a face and shape the very image of her own; and she looked so simpering, and mawkish, and self-conscious, and silly, that she made the wise woman feel rather sick. Not that the child was a fool.
He has slain the polysyllable, that huge and slimy centipede which has sprawled over all the valleys of England like the "loathly worm" who was slain by the ancient knight. He does not think that difficult questions will be made simpler by using difficult words about them. He has achieved the admirable work, never to be mentioned without gratitude, of discussing Evolution without mentioning it.
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