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The moon rose up higher and he dozed within the shadow and then a sound brought him to with a start. It was the crunch of gravel on the trail before him and as he looked out he saw Virginia. She was covered by a cloak and there was a man's hat on her head, but Wiley knew her it was Virginia Huff.
I believe we're in for a squall before long. It was just such a day three years ago when that terrible squall came up that Joe Otway got drowned in." The sky was dun and smoky, the glassy water was copper-hued, the air was heavy and breathless. The sea purred upon the shore, lapping it caressingly like some huge feline creature biding its time to seize and crunch its victim.
But it was still dark below her north window when she caught the sound of a familiar step, the crunch of gravel under Tunis' boot. She lay shaking for a moment, holding her breath. She heard the tiny pebbles rattle upon the window sill. For the first time she had not been downstairs to greet Tunis on his way to the port. Could she let him go now without a word? But she must! She must be firm.
I suspect that my disorder is general and that if any group of formal diners could be caught in preparation midway between their tub and over-shoes, they would be found a peevish company who might be expected to snap at one another. Yet look now at their smiling faces! With what zest they crunch their food! How cheerfully they clatter on their plates!
The three were then pounced upon by a relay of fishermen led by Tod's father and dragged from under the crunch and surge of the smother. Both Tod and Morgan were unhurt and scrambled to their feet as soon as they gained the hard sand, but Archie lay insensible where the men had dropped him, his body limp, his feet crumpled under him.
So terribly did the teeth crunch and grind together that it seemed they must crush into fragments. A little later he suddenly stiffened out. The hands clenched and the face set with the savage resolution of the dream. The eyelids trembled from the shock of the fantasy, seemed about to open, but did not. Instead, the lips muttered: "No; no! And once more no. I won't peach."
Deserted her and her children don't you recognise the beast? married for rank could you expect otherwise from him? invites my Lord Highgate to his house in consideration of his balance at the bank; sir, unless somebody's heel shall crunch him on the way, there is no height to which this aspiring vermin mayn't crawl. I look to see Sir Barnes Newcome prosper more and more.
The brain grows dizzy and tired, as one's feet crunch over the endless variety of their forms. 'And then one recollects that every one of them has been a living thing a whole history of birth, and growth, and propagation, and death.
She may be handsome, witty, loving whatever you please, but she is past thirty, she is arriving at maturity. I do not blame men who attach themselves to that kind of woman; only, a man of your superior distinction must not mistake a winter pippin for a little summer apple, smiling on the bough, and waiting for you to crunch it.
And he was comforted, feeling that, with her taste, she was taking a real interest in these things; for, after all, nothing better composes the nerves than a doubtful piece of china. When the crunch of the carriage wheels was heard at last, he said: "You must come again; you must come to lunch, then I can show you these by daylight, and my little sweet she's a dear little thing.
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