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As he had told Maggie, you could not put over a big thing in a hurry. As for Larry, he'd certainly handled that business in swell fashion! He'd certainly put a crimp in what had been developing between Larry and Maggie. And he'd get Larry in time, too. The drag-net was too large and close of mesh for Larry to hope to escape it. The word he'd slipped that boob Gavegan had sure done the business!
I had my hand on my shooting iron in my pocket after that, I can tell you! He was spoiling to hit back he is now he's not wasting to-night. But all that matters for the moment is that we've put a crimp on him and he knows it." "He may be off before you return to the villa." "Not he. He's going to see this thing through and finish his job, if we don't prevent it.
Then, there being no further sound, he swept the place with a beam from his electric torch. Stretched on the floor were three dead Chinamen and beside them was enough opium to have drugged everyone on the island. That little episode, as Jennings remarked dryly, put quite a crimp in the opium traffic in Jolo.
"At that state of my entwickelung, as the French say, I still wore my trousers with a strong crimp at the bottom and cut pear-shaped at the hips. That pair was. The next one wasn't. It was a long, long way to that next pair. I forgot how many years.
Some of the men from other papers try to get the best of you?" "Only my old enemy, Peter Manton, but I put a crimp in him all right. No, this was something else." And Larry told of the disappearance of the man at the hut. "That is rather odd," agreed the older reporter. "If I were you I'd tell Mr.
But it won't do with stock that's bred up. Harshaw lost close to forty per cent of his cattle three years ago. It sure put some crimp in him. He was hit hard again last winter. You know that. Say he'd had valuable stock. Why, it would put him outa business. Sure would." "Yes," admitted Bob. "There's a schoolmarm down at Meeker was askin' me about you. You know her that snappin'-eyed brunette.
Make a fine paste, roll it out, and cut it into round cakes. Then lay some of the mixture on one half of the cake, and fold over the other upon it, in the shape of a half-moon. Close and crimp the edges nicely, and fry the rissoles in butter. They should be of a light brown on both sides. Drain them and send them to table dry. Cover the bottom and sides of a deep dish with a thick paste.
Leonard learned, then, what had befallen, and again saw himself without employment and the means of bread. Slowly he walked back. "O knowledge, knowledge! -powerless, indeed!" he murmured. As he thus spoke, a handbill in large capitals met his eyes on a dead wall, "Wanted, a few smart young men for India." A crimp accosted him. "You would make a fine soldier, my man.
"Dearie," I said, trying my level best to get a mist over my lamps so as to give her the teardrop gaze, "something keeps whispering to me, 'Sidestep that cave in the wilderness! Something keeps telling me that a month on the farm will put a crimp in our happiness, and that the moment we move into a home in the tall grass ill luck will get up and put the boots to our wedded bliss."
Tregarva answered by the first and last oath Lancelot ever heard from him, and turning to him, as the rascal sneaked off, 'That's a poaching crimp from London, sir; tempting these poor boys to sin, and deceit, and drunkenness, and theft, and the hulks. 'I fancy I saw him somewhere the night of our row you understand? 'So do I, sir, but there's no use talking of it.
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