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"You shouted school of sharks to me yourself," defended Greer. "I! I!" puffed Caradoc, whose spurt had blown him badly. "I said nothing about sharks!" "Well, what did you say?" demanded Greer. Caradoc thought back fretfully. "I said we were running into a cul de sac." "A cool de sock!" repeated Greer with irritation. "What did you want to say 'cool de sock' for?"
In a sheltered little cul de sac, between two white-thorn hedges, they took their seats; and Gillespie having pulled out his bottle and glass, began to ply the luckless young man with the strong liquor. And an easy task he found it; for Fenton resembled thousands, who, when the bounds of moderation are once passed, know not when to restrain themselves.
The valley is in fact fork-shaped, intersected by a mountainous ridge which runs from its lower end for about fifteen miles. The two portions then unite and form one valley up to the snows, and Koopwaddie is situated at their junction. The Solab proper is only the eastern arm which is formed into a cul de sac by the mountains, and in which Lalpore stands. JULY 23rd.
It looked far more imposing than the channel; but Davies, after a rapid scrutiny, treated it to a grunt of contempt. 'It's a cul de sac, he said. See that hump of sand it's making for, beyond? 'It's boomed, I remonstrated, pointing to a decrepit stem drooping over the bank, and shaking a palsied finger at the imposture.
One would think that, instead of being as unlike real life as stories professing to deal with it can be, they were photographs of it, and that the writers, as in the following instance, had always the fear of the law of libel before their eyes: We must now request our readers to accompany us into an obscure cul de sac opening into a narrow street branching off Holborn.
As we lay hove-to in the cul- de-sac, discussing the question of what should next be done, our attention had been more than once attracted toward a large hummock of rock rising some thirty or forty feet above the general level of the reef, at no great distance from the margin of the channel; and Gurney's proposal was that, before attempting anything else, we should land, make our way to the hummock, climb it, and ascertain whether any observations of value were to be made from its summit.
Turning swiftly, she saw an evil-looking man scowling down upon her from a small opening under one of the rocky walls of the cul de sac. The man was Louis Vorlange. Nellie did not know the fellow; indeed she had never heard of him. But there was that in the spy's manner which was not at all reassuring as he leaped down to where she stood. "I say, how did you come here?" went on Vorlange.
After going about four or five times, however, all these flattering symptoms suddenly changed, by the passage's terminating in a cul de sac. Almost at the same instant the ice closed rapidly in the schooner's wake.
"For God's sake don't slip!" "Take my hand," he snapped energetically. I stretched forward and grasped his hand. As I did so, he slid down the slope on the right, away from the street, and hung perilously for a moment over the very cul de sac upon which the secret door opened. "Good!" he muttered "There is, as I had hoped, a window lighting the top of the staircase. Ssh! ssh!"
The Indian seemed by a species of instinct to select the most practicable routes. He seemed to know how the land ought to lie, so that he was never deceived by appearances into entering a cul de sac. His beech ridges always led to other beech ridges; his hardwood never petered out into the terrible black swamps.
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