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Belike, he is hidden somewhere whence he can see all I do with this young lady, himself unseen; and to-morrow he will flout me and say, "How comes it that thou feignest to have no mind to marry and yet didst kiss and clip yonder damsel?"
He turned away to reach for his whisky and soda. "As a matter of curiosity," he asked, "why?" "To begin with, then," she commented, "you have become almost a precisian in your speech. You used to be rather slangy at times." "What else?" "You used always to clip your final g's." "Shocking habit," he murmured. "I cured myself of that by reading aloud in the bush. Go on, please?"
"I never make that road without absorbing every bump on the thoroughfare." Cecilia was not altogether pretty, for she had the "accent on her nose," as Cora put it, but she was dashing, and, at a glance, one might easily guess why she had been called Clip. Rachel Stuart was a striking blonde, tall to a fault, pink and white to bisqueness and, withal, evidently conscious of her charms.
Daisy and Maud, who had been at some distance from the Whirlwind, now cut past Bess and Belle, making their way to the side of the big maroon car. "Cora," called Daisy, "I forgot to tell you. I found this little satchel by the road where we stopped." Cora gazed at the black bag that Daisy held up for her inspection. "Why," faltered Cora, "that must belong to Clip.
Miss Sparkes, condescending at length to break a silence which she had maintained with evident uneasiness, said, "All these plodding employments cramp the genius, degrade the intellect, depress the spirits, debase the taste, and clip the wings of imagination.
"Yes sir!" I grabbed the handrail of the ladder and slid down, then raced aft to the gun turret. There was a man in the turret, waiting to help me. He had a clip of five rounds in the gun, the searchlight on, and the viewscreen tuned to the forward pickup.
Wounded pride in the first place, commercial rivalry in the second; but the chief reason is that England desires to perpetuate its supremacy as a world power, and sees growing up here a giant who will sooner or later, as Napoleon said, "clip the lion's claws."
In these operations much was left to the hand and eye of the workman. It necessarily happened that some pieces contained a little more and some a little less than the just quantity of silver; few pieces were exactly round; and the rims were not marked. It was therefore in the course of years discovered that to clip the coin was one of the easiest and most profitable kinds of fraud.
How darest thou expect to win my favours, hope to clip * Upon a lover's burning breast my lance like shape and rare? Leave this thy purpose lest my wrath come down on thee some day, * A day of wrath shall hoary turn the partings of thy hair!" Then she folded the letter and gave it to the old woman, who took it and repaired to Taj al-Muluk.
When the evening paper came Chickaloosa had two papers, a morning paper and an evening paper he would read through the account given of the event at the prison, and would pencil any material errors which had crept into the reporter's story, and then he would clip out the article and file it away with a sheaf of similar clippings in the same bureau drawer where he kept his account-book and his underclothing.
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