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Clara postured always within Pete's vision. Chiquita took up her eternal vigil on Frank's reef. Peachy discovered new wonders of what Honey called "trick flying." Julia became a fixed white star in their blue noon sky. A day or two or three of this long-distance wooing, and argument exploded more vehemently than ever.
As it is only a very few years since the most absurd and disgusting customs have become exploded among ourselves, you will not, of course, wonder that these poor people pin up the lower part of their infants, bodies, legs and all, in red flannel as soon as they are born, and keep them in the selfsame envelope till it literally falls off.
"Why, the house 'n' barn is wuth more 'n thet," the deacon exploded. "I 'll give you fifteen hundred dollars, and mail the money to you to-night." "See here, I don't know who ye be, but ye 're darned sassy. I won't trade with ye afore Monday an' " "Then you won't trade at all." "I 'll split th' " "You 'll take that price or leave it." "I'll take it, but " "Good," broke in Donaldson sharply.
Galbraith, frowning with decision "I warn you that I am going to have keys made for everything about the place that will lock up; and, all the same, I shall only allow you to come under escort of the chief constable, and I shall keep a posse of detectives concealed about the grounds to watch for you carefully." The twins exploded with delight. "Didn't I promise you I'd draw him this afternoon?"
"There, there!" he soothed her, smoothing the golden brown hair that spilled about her shoulders. "No one ever going to hurt you while I'm around. You're the just perfectly dearest, if you come right down to it. Now, now! 'S all right. Everything all right!" "It's those perfectly old taggers," exploded the flapper, suddenly recovering her true form, "just furiously tagging."
Three hundred and fifty pounds of concentrated nourishment passed down the oesophagus of the unthinking child. "Clap him on the back!" cried the distracted mother. "Give him water!" The idea was fatal. The water striking the pill caused it to expand. There was a dull rumbling sound and then, with an awful bang, Gustavus Adolphus exploded into fragments!
"A trick, Billy. An old trick." "Maybe so. But I really believe she doesn't realize. She's queer has been queerly brought up. Yes, I think she doesn't appreciate. Then, too, she's young and light almost childish in some ways. . . . I don't blame you for being disgusted with me, Fred. But damn it, what's a man to do?" "Cure himself!" exploded Norman, wheeling violently on his friend.
I drew public attention to this circumstance again in my reply to Professor Owen, published in the 'Athenaeum' for April 13th, 1861; but the exploded figure was reproduced once more by Professor Owen, without the slightest allusion to its inaccuracy, in the 'Annals of Natural History' for June 1861! This proved too much for the patience of the original authors of the figure, Messrs.
"You kin hev it," said the soldier, throwing his palm open with an air of happy extravagance, and a group of gray-headed "citizens," just behind, exploded a loud country laugh. "D' I onderstaynd you to lafe at me, saw?" drawled the soldier, turning back with a pretence of heavy gloom on his uncombed brow.
The rain of shells from above found breaches in the armor of a second French ship, caught a magazine forward and exploded it, almost at the same time blew up a magazine aft, and the ship, broken in two, sank. The first dirigible, having passed over the French fleet, now turned and came back. The shells of the ships burst harmlessly below it.
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