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While he was thus engaged, Hockins brought some water from a neighbouring stream in a cup which he had extemporised out of a piece of bark, and applied it to the man's lips. Ebony stood by, with a look of profound pity on his face, ready for whatever might be required of him. The hunter showed by the expression of his handsome brown features that he was grateful for these attentions.
In fact, the whole contrivance, got up so hastily at this time, was just an extemporised rocket apparatus without the rocket Edgar having already performed the duty of that projectile, which is to effect communication between wreck and shore. By means of the endless fall our hero now hauled a heavy rope or cable from the wreck, the end of which he fastened round a large boulder.
Would you mind telling me anything else of interest that happened?" "There was a good deal, one way an' another. I'd like to know what this Antonio thought of our sails." "He merely says that 'the engines having broken down, an officer extemporised a mournful and useless parody of sails. Oh, yes! he says that some of them looked like 'bonnets in a needlecase, I think." "Bonnets in a needlecase!
They came too late for the table d'hote, and partook of an extemporised meal in their sitting-room immediately on their arrival, as the start was to be early. Then it was that Janet missed her bag, her precious bag! Delrio was sent all over the house to make inquiries whether it had been taken to any other person's room, but in vain. Mrs.
A double tube would be better, but that cannot be extemporised so easily. Have you ever tried a stereograph taken with the camera only the distance apart of the eyes? That must give nature. When the angle is greater the views in the stereoscope show us, not nature, but a perfect reduced model of nature seen nearer the eye.
And he went up to her, kissed her in the mechanical way of most grown-up sons, and gently urged her in the direction of the stairs. She submitted, still with faint protestations of apology. Olive followed, and with a last feint of hospitality, her father brought up the tail of the procession. "Coming for a drink?" Frank asked me with a jerk of his head towards the extemporised buffet.
And the tongue of the case extemporised and spake on this theme, Fate comes to him who flies from Fate, O Lord, * And lot and daily bread by Thee are weighed." And they also tell of
He crossed the big studio and wheeled an easel out from the recess in which it had been concealed. The canvas was draped and having set it in a good light he turned, taking a step forward. "No telling," he said. "No," replied Flamby, rising from her extemporised diwân. James towered over her slight figure vastly. "Give me a kiss and I will believe you," he said.
His purpose served he had left the extemporised stopper lying somewhere in the dispensary. Stuart's dispensary was merely a curtained recess at one end of the waiting-room and shortly after entering the house he had occasion to visit it. Lying upon a shelf among flasks and bottles was the Chinese coin with the cork still attached. He took it up in order to study the inscription.
My departure must have been communicated from Berlin. Otherwise how should Wesel have learned that a spy had been arrested? The station was besieged with a wildly shouting excited crowd who bawled: "English spy! English spy! Lynch him! Lynch him!" I was bundled into a military office which had evidently been hurriedly extemporised from a lumber room.
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