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But it seems he was therein mistaken, for in less than a week afterwards the boy had the impudence to come and offer his vials again, upon which the gentleman not only bought of him as usual, but ordered two quarts of milk to be set on the fire, put into it two ounces of glister sugar, crumbled it with a couple of penny loaves, and obliged this nimble-fingered youth to eat it every drop up before he went out of the kitchen door, and then without farther correction hurried him about his business.
This disposition of the soil is called <i>hraun</i>: the crumbled lava on the surface was in some instances like ship cables stretched out horizontally, in others coiled up in heaps; an immense field of lava came from the neighboring mountains, all extinct volcanoes, but whose remains showed what once they had been. Here and there could be made out the steam from hot water springs.
The rush of the deluge has ebbed back; the old landmarks have reappeared; the dynasties Napoleon willed into life have crumbled to the dust; the plough has passed over Waterloo; autumn after autumn the harvests have glittered on that grave of an empire. Through the immense ocean of universal change we look back on the single track which our frail boat has cut through the waste.
They were the last words he ever spoke, for the next moment the roof crumbled under his feet, and his body was scattered in fragments through the air, and in that moment Portsmouth had ceased to be a fortified stronghold.
A sudden gravity descended upon Jill. The words had reminded her of the thing which she was perpetually striving to keep out of her thoughts. "He said he wanted to be there to keep an eye on me." Gravity is infectious. Wally's smile disappeared. He, too, had been recalled to thoughts which were not pleasant. Wally crumbled his roll. There was a serious expression on his face.
As the sun dropped below Carmel the prophet cast down his staff and stretched out two groping hands to help her. Early last Fall there died in Troy an old man and his wife. The woman went first, and the husband took a chill at her grave's edge, when he stood bareheaded in a lashing shower. The loose earth crumbled under his feet, trickled over, and dropped on her coffin-lid.
If the road-edge crumbled away it was inevitable that he would be caught under the car as it rolled over and down to the river. It was ahead and reverse, ahead and reverse, with only the briefest of pauses in which to shift the gears.
Ralph put the warrant back, charred and crumbled, into the breast pocket of the jerkin he wore. The burning of the paper had for a moment filled the chamber with light. After the last gleam of it had died away, and the ash of the burnt portion lay in his palm, Ralph walked to the front window and looked out. All was still. Only the wind whistled.
"Seems to me you've stirred up a great mess out here," I began. "Mess?" replied the young Frenchman. "Oh, you mean that affair of the other day! Ah, these Chinese! Perfectly impossible people!" He crumbled his bread a while, and then continued with much heat. "For fourteen years," he burst out, "we have been wanting that piece of land, and asking for it! Asked them for it fourteen years ago!
You mean that the cake is your brother; and that seems a pity, too, for it does not look like a very good cake, and, besides, it is all crumbled to pieces." Once I made a pleasure trip to a country called Germany; and I went to a funny little town, where all the streets ran uphill.
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