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Swithin put his thumbs within the armholes of his waistcoat, and replied: "Ann's getting very shaky; she ought to have a doctor!" "Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Forsyte!" Nicholas Forsyte, cocking his rectangular eyebrows, wore a smile. He had succeeded during the day in bringing to fruition a scheme for the employment of a tribe from Upper India in the gold-mines of Ceylon.
In the choice of Fowls for eating, those which are white feather'd and white legg'd, are much tenderer and finer in their Flesh than those of other Colours, and are much weaker; for which reason, those who understand Cocking, do not approve of such as happen to be white feather'd: and those which are black feather'd, are accounted the hottest and most fiery, and their Flesh is coarser than in other Fowls.
These Mino-birds, I may remark, in passing, have a singular aptitude for acquiring phrases. "What'll you take?" repeated the Mino, cocking his other eye upon Herr Hippe. "Mon Dieu! what a bird!" exclaimed the little Frenchman. "He is, in truth, polite." "I don't know what I'll take," said Hippe, as if replying to the Mino-bird; "but I know what you'll get, old fellow!
Cautiously cocking his rifle, Jenks deliberately raised it to his shoulder. One of the Indian sentinels who stood near at hand, sprang forward and struck up the weapon. He spoke a single word to Legget, pointed to the woods above the cliff, and then resumed his statue-like attitude. "I told yer, Jenks, that it wouldn't do.
When the laws began to be enforced hereabouts, his Reverence came to see me; and sat in that very chair that you now occupy. "'I hear, said he, cocking his eye at me, 'that her Grace is becoming strict, and more careful for the souls of her subjects. "I agreed with him, and said I had heard as much. "'The fine is twenty pounds a month, says he, 'for recusancy, and then he looks at me again."
But an inquisition in the look, a slight cocking of the head as though weighing important things, the ringed fingers softly drumming on the stick before him all these told Philip that something was at stake concerning himself. The Duke seemed about to speak, when the door of the room opened and the Minister of Marine entered.
How can you explain all that to your Emperor? There is still time to prevent my telling all that I know about you. 'Well, really, I think that you are right, my friend, said the other, drawing out his pistol and cocking it. 'Perhaps I did go a little beyond my instructions in one or two points, and, as you very properly remark, there is still time to set it right.
"We went on, almost without stopping, until three o'clock in the morning, when suddenly our scouts fell back again. Soon the whole detachment showed nothing but a vague shadow on the ground, as the men lay on the snow, and I gave my orders in a low voice, and heard the harsh, metallic sound of the cocking of rifles. There, in the middle of the plain, some strange object was moving about.
Jud Carpenter stopped his horse instantly. "Turkeys goin' to roost." he muttered. He listened for the direction. Prut Prut it came out of the bushes on the right a hundred yards away under a beech tree. Jud listened: "Eatin' beech-mast," he said, and he slipped off his pony, tied him quietly to the limb of a sweet-gum tree, and cocking his long gun, slipped into the wood.
Step by step it crept up to the kettle, took the handle of the lid between its jaws, lifted it off, placed it noiselessly on the ground, and devoured the savoury stew. I could not fire, because of the men. I dared not move, lest I should disturb the robber. I was even afraid the click of cocking the pistol would startle him and prevent my getting a quiet shot. But patience was rewarded.
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