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So they naturally need to know what they're tangled up with." Peter, at that, began to look unhappy. "Would you mind telling me what brought you to this part of the country?" I asked. "Would you mind telling me what brought you to this part of the country?" countered Peter. "My husband," I curtly retorted. And that chilled him perceptibly. But he saw that I was not to be shuttled aside.
Heavy batteries constantly countered each other, and day and night were punctuated by cannonades of varying intensity. Ypres itself was shelled by the celebrated 420 m.m. Skoda howitzer. The enemy drenched the area with the old lachrymatory gas shells, as well as a new gas he had lately introduced known as "Yellow Cross" or "Mustard" gas.
He did not care for what he called the 'full-uddered kine. He liked them parched and lithe with eyes like smouldering fires " "Ah, like Patsy!" said the Duke, not yet cured of his love-sickness. "Exactly," countered my Lord, "like Miss Patsy to a hair. Well, when we went into his tent the next morning Murat had excused him service he well, he was not pretty to see.
In appraising her business assets, she itemized her knowledge of several languages, her excellent education and her willingness to work. She was countered by the reminders that she did not know stenography, could not use a typewriter and had no prior experience.
All through the day she walked, worked, talked as one in the state of trance. There were periods of stupefaction which at length roused Burlingame's curiosity. "Kitty, what's the matter with you? You look dazed about something." "How do you clean a pipe?" she countered, irrelevantly. "Clean a pipe?" he repeated, nearly overbalancing his chair. "Yes.
"Doctor," she countered, seeking to woo him into a better humor, "would you construe silence on a woman's part as necessarily a mark of insanity? It is a rare thing, I concede. But might it not sometimes be an admirable thing as well?" But this gruff old man was not to be cajoled into pleasanter channels than the course his mood steered for him. "We'll waive that too.
Certainly there couldn't be too many such wrecks to be found. What do you think this planet was, a flypaper to attract them?" "But if ships crashed here once, why didn't they later when men were better able to understand them?" Ross countered. "For several reasons all of them possible and able to be fitted into the fabric of history as we know it on this world.
"We might take a ride, if you don't mind the heat." "You don't want to ride," she objected petulantly. "Why didn't you go with Good Indian?" he countered. "Because I didn't want to. And I do wish you'd quit calling him that; he has a real name, I believe." "If you're looking for a scrap," grinned Jack, "I'll stake you to my six gun, and you can go down and kill off a few of those claim-jumpers.
He expressed a wish to leave the house and to know 'what my game was. I replied that he was my game and that I believed that I had bagged him, whereupon he rushed at me and aimed a vicious blow at my head with his armed left fist, which, if it had come home, would have stretched me senseless. But it did not. I guarded it easily and countered him so that he staggered back gasping.
"So you're going to use a Jimmy instead, eh?" countered Blake. "Right-o, Tammas," said Lord James. "We're going to open up the incident out of hand." "Lord!" groaned Blake. He rose, flushing with embarrassment, and swung across, to stare at a blueprint in the far corner of the room. Lord James flicked the ash from his cigar with his little finger, and smiled at Griffith.
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