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He also looked at the water and sighed sentimentally. "'Floatin' buoys with bills onto 'em is a idea of mine, he observed. 'That damn ocean is monotonous, ain't it? "I don't know what I might have done to Frisby the rifle was so convenient if his mean yellow dog had not waddled up at this juncture. "'Hi, Davy, sic 'em! said Frisby, expectorating upon a clam-shell and hurling it seaward.
'Twas white as a clam-shell, and she looked frightened to death. "Thinks I: 'That's funny! It's a providence Eben's coming home so soon. "And the next day I saw her again, and she was just as white and wouldn't look me in the eye.
On the third day the roots were all laid bare. But the roots were fast in the clefts of the rock and he could not loosen it, try ever so hard. What would he not have given for an axe, or at least a knife. And yet he had never thought of their value when at home. He attempted to cut one root through with his clam-shell, but the shell crumbled and would not cut the hard wood.
Said quilt was to have a bordering of a pattern commonly denominated in those parts clam-shell, and this Miss Roxy was diligently marking with indigo. "What makes you say so, now?" said Mrs. Badger, a fat, comfortable, motherly matron, who always patronized the last matrimonial venture that put forth among the young people.
These were knotty questions, and I was never able to dispose of them satisfactorily. Meanwhile Pepper Whitcomb would scour the whole town in search of me. He finally discovered my retreat, and dropped in on me abruptly one afternoon, while I was deep in the cherub problem. "Look here, Tom Bailey!" said Pepper, shying a piece of clam-shell indignantly at the file jacet on a neighboring gravestone.
Aoodya had risen and was standing by the cradle, with one hand on its edge; in the other was the lamp a clam-shell fastened in a split handle of bamboo, and holding a pith wick and a little oil.
Then a chief called out, "Come, let us caress these Frenchmen!" and the crowd, knife in hand, began to mount the scaffold. They ordered a Christian Algonquin woman, a prisoner among them, to cut off Jogues's left thumb, which she did; and a thumb of Goupil was also severed, a clam-shell being used as the instrument, in order to increase the pain.
For he appeared ten feet high, with a hundred red and black feathers in his scalp-lock, his face painted like fresh blood with green rings round his eyes, a large clam-shell hanging from each ear, a spread eagle, very awful to behold, flapping its wings from the back of his neck, so that as he strode into the village all hearts quaked.
He saw that in each font was a quantity of food, and that each Wieroo was armed with a wooden skewer, sharpened at one end; with which they carried solid portions of food to their mouths. At the other end of the skewer was fastened a small clam-shell. This was used to scoop up the smaller and softer portions of the repast into which all four of the occupants of each table dipped impartially.
Charley Marden, whose father had promised to cane him if he ever stepped foot on sail or rowboat, came down to the wharf in a sour-grape humor, to see us off. Nothing would tempt him to go out on the river in such a crazy clam-shell of a boat. He pretended that he did not expect to behold us alive again, and tried to throw a wet blanket over the expedition.
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