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Updated: May 22, 2025
The crowd that had gathered at the Four Corners were greatly disturbed, for they also felt the repulsion that possessed the Little Chemist's wife. They babbled, shook their heads, and waved their hands excitedly, and swayed and craned their necks to see the offender.
His movements were quick, his head was craned forward, every muscle was taut, his eyes fixed on some object invisible to Oldham with an intensity that evidently excluded from the field of his vision everything but that toward which his lithe and snake-like advance was bringing him. In his hand he carried the worn and shining Colts 45 that was always his inseparable companion.
Supported on his arm the other staggered along, his head on his breast, his hair whiter, and his step feebler than of old. Necks were craned forward to catch a glimpse of them. "This is terrible," Sim whispered. "Only a minute more, and it will be over," answered Ralph. Sim burst into tears that shook his whole frame. "Bravely, old friend," Ralph said, melted himself, despite his words of cheer.
Of course, if you're going to make a perfect lady get off and walk " Blue snuffed at the ledge with his neck craned. The rim-rock had crumbled and sunk low into the bluff, like a too rich pie-crust when the oven is not quite hot enough. From a ten- or fifteen-foot wall it shrunk here to a three-foot ledge.
At intervals he stands on the rail with his head craned round the edge of the sun deck to listen to the captain, who is up on the little deck above, for there is no telegraph to the engines, and our gallant commander's voice is not strong.
At each picturesque fording-place, with its inevitable watering-pool, are stepping-stones for foot pilgrims; often a flock of geese are sailing in the pool, with craned necks and flapping wings hissing defiance to disturbers of their sylvan peace.
Polly was sure they would see the great ranch-wagon the moment it came around the bend. They had not been seated there more than twenty minutes before Eleanor craned her neck and gazed earnestly at two dots that seemed to be crawling along the trail. Polly turned and gazed also. "Why, it's two horsemen! I wonder if Jim and Ken can be thinking of visiting us over Sunday, because Mr.
"We may be seen " Dalgard craned his neck, trying to make out details of what might be waiting above. The merman shook his head with a quick jerk of negation. "They are gone. Behind them remains only death much death " And the bleakness of his thoughts reached the scout. Dalgard had known Sssuri since he was a toddler and the other a cub coming to see the wonders of dry land for the first time.
"The Ba-gcatya are in great force," went on Hazon, as calmly as though he were merely announcing the proximity of one more well-nigh defenceless and slave-supplying village. "We shall have to fight, and that hard, but not here. We must fight them in the open." A murmur of assent went up. Every head was craned forward, eager to hear more. Briefly and concisely Hazon set forth his commands.
The colonel turned the map to Chad's side of the table. Every man in the room stood up and craned his head forward. "Now, Chad," said the colonel, "this map is a plan of our lan' same as if you were lookin' down on it. Here is the road to Caartersville. See that square, black mark? That's Caarter Hall. This is the marsh, and that is the coal hill.
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