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Bartholomew heard some unusual noise in 30 and left his berth to investigate. He was struck down from behind as he approached the communicating door. The murderer had got in by way of the sitting room, 26." Mr. Sherry added in an awed voice: "Frightful blow skull crushed like an eggshell." There was a pause. Crane thoughtfully relighted his cigar, and wrapped his right cheek round it.
"Queen bee of the honey asps," quoth Paul of the eyrie: and he was back in Paris. He was back at Gertrude's table, the worshipped, the immaculate Gertrude of those days. They had reached the end of the repast, and coffee was served in little cups of eggshell china encased in filigree gold. 'A gift from the Khedive, she said, indicating these.
However, if a bishop may lawfully crack a man's head, as an eggshell, I see not that blame can attach to me, a humble and most unworthy son of the church, if some slight harm should come to any man, from the use of so peaceful an instrument as a staff. And how about yourself, young master?" "I can carry a sword," Oswald replied.
Shandon looked again at the fire; set on each side of a bed of coals were two flat stones, perched on the stones a battered, blackened old coffee pot. "I called you a witch, didn't I, Wanda?" "You might at least have called me a Fairy," she retorted, her eyes bright with the joy of a day-dream come true. "Did you conjure this out of a broken eggshell with a wand?
They had not realized they were so near the verge of the precipice. Ruth's body was solid, and when she fell in the snow the undercrust broke like an eggshell. Amid a cloud of snow-dust she shot over the yawning edge of the chasm and disappeared. Several square yards of the snow-drift had broken away. At their very feet fell the unexpected precipice.
Then hidden down in the hay they came across a mouse's home with four baby mice in it. They looked very small and young and funny. Their tiny eyes were shut tight. "You are cunning little things but you won't buy us a picnic," said Peggy. In the eaves of the barn they found a swallow's nest, but the baby birds had flown away. Only some pieces of eggshell were left.
The Phoenix lifted the Scientist's sun helmet and examined the back of his head. "A large lump is developing, my boy. A most pleasant sight! I fear the sun helmet is now useless crushed like an eggshell." And the Phoenix smiled proudly. "Well, I hope it isn't serious," David said doubtfully. "Anyway, we'll have to do something." "Precisely, my boy. But I think we should have a drink first."
I looked as innocent as a fluffy chicken when it first sidles out of its eggshell into the wide, wide world; and said: "Oh, I do hope I haven't a smudge on the end of my nose?" "No," replied the chauffeur, instantly becoming expressionless. "Why do you ask?" "Only I was afraid, from your face, that there was something wrong."
Carlyle, somewhere in his writings, says, that though the Vatican is great, it is but the chip of an eggshell compared to the star-fretted dome where Arcturus and Orion glance for ever; and I say that, though the grove of Central Park, New York, is grand compared to the thin groves seen in other great cities, that though the Windsor and the New Forests may be very fine and noble in England, yet they are but fagots of sticks compared to these eternal forests of Unyamwezi.
Boyton landed at Ripetta Grande and so great was the pressure of the throng that the iron band about the waist of his dress was crushed like an eggshell. No end of fetes followed, the citizens seeming to vie with one another as to which could give the most splendid entertainment. Naples was next visited with the intention of crossing the famous bay.
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