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It was a matter of principle with Julius never to take life; yet instinctively he drew back his hand from the book in disgust. "Araignée du matin, chagrin," he said, involuntarily, while he watched the insect make good its escape over the top of the bookcase. Then he flicked uneasily at the little parcel with his duster, causing a cloud of gray atoms to float up and out into the room.
John Gammons, who was somewhat of a dandy in matters of toilet, was among the first of my circle to purchase one of these very ultra garments, and Burton soon followed his lead, and then my own discontent began. I, too, desired a duster. Unfortunately my father did not see me as I saw myself.
She began to pace up and down the room, snatching up her duster; but she was too much annoyed to find any relief, as yet, in polishing the backs of books. "Besides," she said, giving the sheet she had written to Katharine, "I don't believe this'll do. Did your grandfather ever visit the Hebrides, Katharine?" She looked in a strangely beseeching way at her daughter.
All the books must be taken down frequently and first beaten separately, then in pairs, and dusted, top and covers, with a soft brush or a small feather duster.
They won't say nothink up there, not if you was to go in a billycock 'at and a duster, s'welp me, they wouldn't " But I didn't listen to him, and going up the front door steps by the policemen, I told them I was Lord Crossborough's driver, and passed right in.
The ducal chauffeur lurked in the background, duster in hand, and Mr. Herbert Stokes occupied as large a space as possible in the foreground.
If you pull a duster, you'll be out and injured, maybe twenty-five thousand, but if it comes wet they'll have to protect those three leases with three offsets. It ain't a bad-looking piece of ground; you'll have about a one-to-three chance of making a well." "How many companies have you gentlemen promoted?" Gray inquired. "Twenty-two. And from a shoestring.
This cascarilla is formed by the trituration of eggshells; and the oval faces whitened with it resemble a larger egg, with features drawn on it in black and red. In spite of this, they are handsome; but one feels a natural desire to rush in amongst them with a feather duster, and lay about one a little, before giving an available opinion of their good looks.
He pushed the atlas away from him with a jerk that overturned the ink bottle, sending a stream of ink towards Avice who, shoving her chair backwards to escape the deluge, cannoned into Queenie, and brought her headlong to the floor. Howls broke out anew, mingled with a crisp interchange of abuse between the elder pair, while Cecilia vainly sought to lessen the inky flood with a duster.
Lyman B. Rattray offered her, sitting in her father's study, with his hair very much brushed up on one side and very much flattened down on the other, a white tie and light-yellow duster adorning his spare person. Such was the American of those days twenty years ago there are none such now I allow. Miss Maria, who was considered "very English," shuddered as she regarded him.
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