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Updated: May 27, 2025
On the precise day on which this story opens some sixty or more years ago, to be exact a bullet-headed, merry-eyed, mahogany-colored young darky stood on the top step of an old-fashioned, high-stoop house, craning his head up and down and across Kennedy Square in the effort to get the first glimpse of his master, St.
In the evening, the old occupants of the ruins, the rats, scuttled in a long row to the river, whilst the ibises, suspiciously craning their necks, perched on the high cornices, to which rose the smoke of the kitchens, the shouts of the drinkers, and the cries of the tapsters. All around, builders laid out streets, and masons constructed convents, chapels, and churches.
Caukins because the Colonel is away to-night." "So I heard; 'Lias told me just now on his way down to the village. He said he wouldn't be gone long, for the Colonel wasn't to home. I wonder what they've turned on all the lights for?" she said, craning her neck to look farther up the road. Aileen made no reply. She cautioned her again to keep Rag at home.
Katharine Howard pushed the window open, craning out to see the King come: the horse, proud and mincing, appearing in its grey steel as great as an elephant, stepped yet so daintily that all its weight of iron made no more sound than the rhythmic jingling of a sabre, and man and horse passed like a flash of shadow out of the door. Cicely hopped back on to the stool and shivered.
"What is the style of the Foger machine?" yelled some one in the crowd, as the announcer lowered his megaphone. "It has not been announced," was the reply. "It will at once be wheeled out though, in accordance with the conditions of the race." There was a craning of necks, and an uneasy movement in the crowd, for Tom's story was now generally known. "Get ready to make your protest," advised Mr.
But as she did so she met the innocent eye of a passer-by, tired of craning his neck to look back at the meeting. With precipitation Mrs. Fox-Moore withdrew into the innermost recesses of the black shell. 'Come, Janet, said Vida, who had meanwhile jumped out and settled the fare. 'Did that man know us? asked the other, lifting up the flap from the back window of the hansom and peering out.
Deep in Elizabeth's being there stirred instincts and yearnings which life had so far stifled in her. She shivered as though some voice, passionate and yet austere, spoke to her from this great spectacle of mountain and water through which she was passing. "There he is!" cried Philip, craning his head to look ahead along the train. Anderson stood waiting for them on the Field platform.
"May be so but he sure shows all the symptoms of being licked right at present." Ford moved a thumb joint gently to see whether it was really dislocated or merely felt that way. "He's going up to the house now, to tell the missus," remarked Jim, craning his neck from the doorway. "If he does that," Ford replied calmly, "I'll half kill him next time.
I went slap at it. If there is anything that never does any good, it's craning. I did it all at one rush, just as though I was swallowing a dose of physic. I wish I could tell you all that the governor said, because it was really tip-top. What is a fellow to get by playing high, a fellow like you and me? I didn't want any of that beast's money. I don't suppose he had any.
The sight of it or the wet earthy smell which came through somehow made me shiver. I looked up. Weems was craning over the edge of the pit, his eyes goggling, and lips drawn back from his clenched teeth. He looked unpleasant, to say the least of it, and a thought dangerous as well. There was a bit of the wild beast peeping out somewhere. "Come along," said I. "How can we see?" "Oh, I forgot that.
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