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Glory stared curiously, tossed his crimpled, silver mane, dodged a second too late and found himself caught.

She made, however, every exertion to keep her mouth closed and look dignified, in a dress consisting of a newly starched and ironed shroud coming up close under her chin, with a crimpled ruffle of cambric muslin. At her right hand sat a diminutive young lady whom she appeared to patronise.

"I tell you, old trapper, this is no horse; neither in hoofs, head, nor hide." "Anan! Not a horse? Your eyes are good for the bees and for the hollow trees, my lad, but bless me, the boy is right! That I should mistake the hide of a buffaloe, scorched and crimpled as it is, for the carcass of a horse! Ah's me!

As the girl turned, a handsome old woman in cap and morning gown came down the stairs. "What have you there?" she asked. The Harvester lifted the leaves and exposed the musky, crimpled, big mushrooms. "Oh!" she cried in delight. "Indeed, yes! We are very fond of them. I will take the basket, and divide with my sons. You are sure you have no poisonous ones among them?"

He knew absolutely nothing about the fire, he said, and had nothing to do with the setting of it. He was two miles away at the time it started. And then Miss Rosemary Allen took the witness stand and told about the man on the hilltop and the bit of mirror that had flashed sun-signals toward the west. H.J. Owens crimpled down visibly in his chair.

The notes at this time are not really money; they do not become so until the chief cashier has put his signature to each, and registered its number in a book. The life of a French bank note is said to average two or three years, and does not terminate until the condition is very shaky indeed crimpled, pierced with pinholes, corner creases torn, soft, tarnished, decrepit while yet young.

And so I went back, and sat in my usual seat, and watched the going day, as, one by one, she took down from forest-pegs and mountain-hooks breadths of silver, skirts of gold, folding silently the sheeny vestments, pressing down each shining fold, gathering from the bureau of the sea, with scarcely time enough for me to note, waves of whitely flowing things, snowy caps, crimpled crests, and crispy laces, made by hands that never tire, in the humid ocean-cellar.

The brown, crimpled skin of his neck showed the big veins which sank under his jaws and reappeared at his temples. He was regarded in the district as a miser and a hard man in business transactions. He was placed standing between four soldiers in front of the kitchen table, which had been carried out of the house for the purpose. Five officers and the Colonel sat facing him.

Ah gass he don' tell var' much trut'." "Then they are mission grapes?" "Yass, 'm; dey all meession grapes; dey mek var' good wahn." The girl's face flamed an angry red under her crimpled thatch of hair. She put out her hand with a swift, protecting gesture, and caught her father's sleeve. The little man's cheeks were pale gray above his shaggy beard.

"'They'll go home soon, I said, and I turned my eyes steadfastly toward the sheeny track, all crimpled and curled with fibrous net-work, and rowed on. "It was a glorious night, a night when one toss of a mermaid's hair, made visible above the waters, as she flew along the track I was pursuing, would have been worth a life of rowing against this incoming tide.