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He must be deader'n a doornail down there." The mystery seemed to be explained. But Walter was still thoughtful and curious. "What's over this way?" he asked, pointing to the hill east of the gulch. "More gullies," Rhoda said. "And somewhere is the bear den we're going to." "Is it far?" Walter asked. "It's in the gulch right next beyond this one," said Tom Collins, with confidence.
They don't seem to realise that love's as dead as a doornail now. But my duty is clear enough and they can't prevent me from doing it, I imagine." "You want to be sporting to the child, of course." "And to the mother of the child. Damn it all, I'm made of flesh and blood. I'm not a fiend.
We will conduct the reader again to the office of the notary, Jacques Ferrand. Thanks to the habitual loquacity of the clerks, almost constantly occupied with the increasing caprices of their patron, we can learn the events that occurred since the disappearance of Cecily. "A hundred to ten, if the present state of his health continues, before a month the governor will be as dead as a doornail."
There is much in common between the clatter of an alarm clock and the suffragist cause, but all the ladies promised not to endanger life, you know." "Anyhow, Mr. Fenley is dead as a doornail," said Eliza firmly. "Too bad. I take back all the hard things I said about him, and I'm sure you do the same." "Me!" "Yes. Didn't you say all the Fenleys were rubbish?
He's as dead as a doornail ... anyway, it's nothing to do with us! If ever a soul went straight to hell," he muttered to himself, "it was that red devil's." From a corner of the settle I stared with a wholly unsuccessful attempt to look unconcerned at a quaint old painting of Sergeant Broughton who first taught Englishmen to box scientifically.
The body was dressed in the clothes of a respectable mechanic. There was very little light in the barn by this time, and Max directed the groom, who had been standing outside, and who had entered, attracted by Max's shout of discovery, to bring a lantern. "I suppose we'd better send for a doctor," said Max, "though the man's as dead as a doornail.
He had choked him dead as a doornail. And still he was a comical fellow, not nearly so disgusting as that rascally humpback. But he was the first enemy soldier whom he had got into his grasp, his very first Russian. A magnificent array of others had followed, though the fat man was the only one Bogdan had choked to death.
"Are you afraid of Camille? Ah! the poor man is as dead as a doornail at this moment." Both avoided saying what made them shudder. When an hallucination brought the countenance of the drowned man before Therese, she closed her eyes, keeping her terror to herself, not daring to speak to her husband of her vision, lest she should bring on a still more terrible crisis.
So to make sure, the King asked the second shepherd whether that was his opinion too. "Yes," said the second shepherd; "now the Prince has killed the Snake, the Snake has a right to kill the Prince if he can." But that was not of much use either, as the Snake was as dead as a doornail. So the King passed on to the third. "I agree with my mates," said the third shepherd.
When you play dodge ball you run away from being hit by the ball, don't you? It is the same for heaven believers. The neighbor boy, I am dreadfully sorry to say, is dead as a doornail and his body and brain are unraveling. You don't need to think twice about it. Trust me on this one.
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