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Updated: May 14, 2025
Save for that glitter of gold on his glass plate, and the grin of a lighted brazier, all was dark, discolored and cluttered. And the way Harry bloomed upon this background of dubious antiquity!
Lugging the baby to the window, she scrambled over the sill. The fire-escape was cluttered with all the paraphernalia that doubles the casualty of a tenement fire, but she cleared a space with her foot and sat down on the top step. Beside her loomed the blank warehouse wall, and from the narrow passage-way below came the smell of garbage.
A folded tent was serving as a roof. The sunlight, without, beating upon it, made it glow a light yellow shade. A small window shot an oblique square of whiter light upon the cluttered floor. The smoke from the fire at times neglected the clay chimney and wreathed into the room, and this flimsy chimney of clay and sticks made endless threats to set ablaze the whole establishment.
He was sole proprietor of a big rooming house in a community that was being congested with trainloads of steel, cement, derricks, and cluttered with humanity who had come to build, and were building, a great dam in the nearby Colorado River. Archie needed help to carry on a business that had increased a hundredfold.
There was no use or purpose in their living. Only sentimentalists like Francey wanted to patch them up and keep them on their feet. People who cluttered up life ought to be cleared out of it. He felt light-headed, yet extraordinarily sure of himself again. He answered Rogers' questions with the old lucidity. And presently he found himself in the corridor, still arguing his theme over.
"What do you mean, Uncle Amazon?" gasped the girl, shocked by his words. "This," the master mariner said, with a wide sweep of his arm taking in the cluttered store. "This was Abe's Sargasso Sea and it come nigh to smotherin' him and bearin' him down by the head." "Oh! you mean his life was so confined here?" Cap'n Amazon nodded, "I wonder he bore it so long."
Meredith, but if the ladies will follow me I will see that they are bestowed in more comfortable quarters;" and he led the way upstairs, where, lighting a candle, he showed them to a small room, very much cluttered by military clothes and weapons, thrown about in every direction.
Anyway, it was right in the heart of the summer boarder belt, and it had all the usual vacation apparatus cluttered around, tennis courts, bowling alleys, bathing floats, dancing pavilion, and a five-piece Hungarian orchestra, four parts kosher, that helped the crockery jugglers put the din in dinner.
"Can you beat it?" he said helplessly, "these darn kids !" But he held the child close. At the next corner he turned toward home. Edith stopped and watched his valiant young back, his small train of followers. He was going to be very sad when he knew, poor Joe, with his vicarious fatherhood, his cluttered, noisy, anxious life. Life was queer. Queer and cruel.
Carp, tench, and roach were so divided that even the fins, heads and fleshless spines were sold. There were doorways to peer into, dim cluttered holes with shadowy forms moving about, potters and rug-weavers. Through one doorway she saw a grave Chinaman standing on a stage-like platform. He wore a long coat, beautifully flowered, and a hat with a turned up brim.
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