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Updated: May 9, 2025
Wildly, she fled through the orchard, crying as she went. "Boy! Mummy's Boy! Where's Mummy's Boy?" Gasping for breath, her voice ejected the words explosively. Exhausted, she sank upon the top step of the porch. The long run up the hill had been almost too much, but in a moment, she lifted herself, still calling and panting, and stumbled into the house.
If the senate confirms the nominee of the praetorian guard, the Roman populace will do the rest by acclamation. Then, three months of upright government deification by the senate " Pertinax laughed explosively an honest, chesty laugh, unqualified by any subtleties, suggesting a trace of the peasantry from which he sprang. It made Cornificia wince. "Can you imagine me a god?" he asked.
Just so, in many plants, a step higher in the evolutionary scale as regards the method of dispersion, the capsule itself bursts open explosively, and scatters its contents to the four winds of heaven. Such plants may be said to discharge their grains on the principle of the bow and arrow.
"Three of them!" a masculine voice uttered explosively, and Maria knew that Papa was speaking of his three daughters, Lucia, Julietta and Maria Angelina and she knew, too, that Papa had just come from the last interview with the Tostis' lawyers. The Tostis had been stiff in their demands and Papa had been more complaisant than he should have been. Altogether that marriage was costing him dear.
Miss Villets was summoned; she spent half an hour in explosively defending herself; the seventeen cents were gnawed over, penny by penny; and Carol, glancing at the carefully inscribed list which had been so lovely and exciting an hour before, was silent, and sorry for Miss Villets, and sorrier for herself.
It gives me a comfortable feeling to have men in my company who are always ready for anything that comes up, who are perpetual volunteers for the dangerous jobs." Tom felt his heart sink. Then he wasn't to be allowed to go! This was simply a nice way of telling him that he couldn't! "But, Captain," he said explosively, "I'd rather do this than anything else on earth.
Now suddenly, explosively, came Old Man Packard's voice, fairly quivering with rage as the old man shouted: "If that's you, Guy Little, I'll beat your head off'n your fool body! Get out an' go away an' go fast!" "It's important, your majesty," returned Guy Little's voice imperturbably. He rubbed one slippered toe against his calf and winked at Terry, looking vastly innocent and boyish.
"You look somewhat ruffled," he observed, "both literally and figuratively." She laughed, putting up a careless hand to brush back the heavy tress of dark hair that had fallen forward over her forehead. "I've had an adventure," she answered, and proceeded to recount her experience with Black Brady. When she reached the point where the man had fired off his gun, Patrick interrupted explosively.
Waring brought his hand down with a bang on the table, causing Mr. Wilberfloss to leap a clear two inches from his chair. "What are you doing it for?" he demanded explosively. "I tell you, you had better quit it. It isn't healthy." Psmith shook his head. "You are merely stating in other and, if I may say so, inferior words what Comrade Parker said to us.
He arose, exclaiming explosively, "For peety's sake!" and in two minutes the dog was flying through the doorway with yelps of terror, followed by several profane anathemas upon his wicked little head for "pollutin' the hoose o' God." Noah Clegg gathered up the pennies and took his place upon the platform as if nothing had happened.
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