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As soon as he gave me the chance of putting in a word edgeways I rejoined quietly: "We are not going to hurt Madame la Marquise, Monsieur; and if you do not want the money, let us say no more about it." Whereupon he calmed down; after a while he sat down again, this time with his cane between his knees and its ivory knob between his teeth. "Go on," he said curtly.
"It was not altogether that I frightened them more than I hurt them; for when they would have returned the blows from this stalwart arm," said Jerry, holding out the member in question, which was about the thickness of a large carrot, "I immediately turned edgeways to them, and was invisible.
The eggs are here hatched, and the young remain in them till their limbs have grown and they can manage to take care of themselves. The skin of the back is very thick, and allows room for the formation of the cells, each of which is sufficiently large to contain a small-sized bean placed in it edgeways.
Then take away the hens and the goats and all traces of any living or moving thing. You must not even leave a spider. Put here, in evidence of some old tumbled roof, a few roof beams and tiles sticking edgeways from the ground, and the low faded ochre stump of the windmill peeping over the top of the hill, and there you have Pozières. I know of nothing approaching that desolation.
The old woman beat them all; she did not want anyone to get in a word edgeways, but screamed and yelled, almost foaming at the mouth, till I almost expected to see her fall down in a fit. I never before witnessed such a display of fury.
He's got all the pizen of Russia in him, flavoured with the rankest sauces of Europe." The Indian waited. "Shouldn't wonder," ventured the contractor, "if he's got something in his system." "If you'll let him get in a word edgeways," laughed Tressa. "That's the way all yours get in," grumbled her father. "Bohunk have big plans," grunted the Indian.
The poorest classes inhabit "Gambisa," the thatched cottages of the hill-cultivators. The city abounds in mosques, plain buildings without minarets, and in graveyards stuffed with tombs, oblong troughs formed by long slabs planted edgeways in the ground. I need scarcely say that Harar is proud of her learning, sanctity, and holy dead.
He would have gone on talking all night, and running the poor horses down to the ground, if Gyuri had not interrupted him. "But I have my dog-cart here, Miss Veronica, and will take you home with pleasure." "Will you really," exclaimed Mravucsán. "I knew you were a gentleman. But why on earth didn't you say so before?" "Because you gave me no chance to put in a word edgeways."
There was no hope of getting so much as a word in edgeways; Mary had perforce to resign herself. "Even your eloquence, my dear Gombauld," he was saying "even your eloquence must prove inadequate to reconvert the world to a belief in the delights of mere multiplication.
The hotel-keeper took the bracelet from the unresisting hand of Bartley, touched his hat, and gave it to her. "There, mistress," said he. "I could have told them you was the lady, but they would not let a poor fellow get a word in edgeways." He retired with an obeisance. Mary handed the bracelet to Julia, and then remained passive.
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