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And at last the parson raked in the whole pile." "I suppose you gave him the three aces," said Dr. Duchesne gloomily. "The parson," said Jack slowly, "HADN'T A SINGLE PAIR IN HIS HAND. It was the stoniest, deadest, neatest BLUFF I ever saw.
The disordered band were instantly panic-stricken; for a moment or two there was the deadest silence; and then everybody, save some forty or fifty men who were probably more experienced hands, burst across the plain, flying in long jumps, and hurrying with all their might towards the hills.
His grey eyes were almost black as they gleamed over the levelled revolver barrels, and his clipped moustache fairly bristled. "Not a step, you!" he muttered. "What's the matter, Lacy? Do you want to die in your tracks? Mike, all I desire is an excuse to make you the deadest bung-starter in Colorado. Put down that gun, Carter!
Alb being frankly and openly a worshiper of the adorable Nell Van Buren, my own countrywoman, I saw that, out of all the girls I ever loved, including her stepsister, she was the only one it would be impossible for me to live without. That state of mind lasted up to the night when we arrived at the deadest of all Dead Cities of the Zuider Zee, Enkhuisen.
It was obviously gathering in a general pause to concentrate its attention upon something of leading interest about to appear to view. "We're in earnest at last, and we can see, now, that the South was in the deadest kind of earnest from the word go." "They can't be any more in earnest than we are, now," said the more decided speaker.
I am the deadest of burdens. It means that your enemies, personal if you have any, and political you have numbers; will raise a cry . . . . Realize it. You may still be my friend. I forgive the bit of wildness. She provoked a renewed kissing of her hand; for magnammity in love is an overflowing danger; and when he said: 'The burden you have to bear outweighs mine out of all comparison.
"Did she marry him?" queried Jean. "No, no!" Helen Blake sighed, blissfully. "It was infinitely finer. She killed herself." "I like to see them get married." "Naturally. You are at that stage. But I think suicide is more glorious, in many cases." Miss Chapin yawned openly. "Speaking of suicides, isn't this ranch the deadest place?" "Oh, I don't think so at all."
Never did any one prepare to bid adieu to the world more absolutely and unreservedly, and to shake hands with all manner of interest in it, than I expect to do. The deadest deaths are the best: "'Miser, O miser, aiunt, 'omnia ademit Una dies infesta mihi tot praemia vitae." And the builder, "Manuet," says he, "opera interrupta, minaeque Murorum ingentes."
"It is no ghost, but I," said Tua. "What dealings are these that you have with ghosts at this deadest hour of the night, Asti? Do not enough terrors encompass us that you must needs call on your familiar spirits to add to them?" "I call on the spirits to save us from them, Queen, for, like you, I think that we are set in the midst of perils.
When you know the shape of the body, you know the bones; for they simply form a shell over the head and run like cores, or piths, down the centre of the back, and down each joint of the limbs. In turning into spongy limestone, or animal concrete, they have become one of the deadest tissues in the body.
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