Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 24, 2025
"Oh!" cried Fleur, "help me, Father; you can help me, you know." Soames made a startled movement of negation. "I?" he said bitterly. "Help? I am the impediment the just cause and impediment isn't that the jargon? You have my blood in your veins." He rose. "Well, the fat's in the fire. If you persist in your wilfulness you'll have yourself to blame. Come! Don't be foolish, my child my only child!"
But if she has been to see Blake, I expect the fat's in the fire by this time." "I don't think much of Blake takin' up the case," said Binjie, "after the old lady asked him here. It's doing the black-snake act, I call it. I don't suppose he'll come here any more after this." Hugh still sat looking out of the window, smoking silently. "Here comes Blake now, anyhow," he said.
He had finished two pages when General Hendricks came in a-tremble and breathless. The eyes of the two men met, and Hendricks replied: "It's Brownwell the fat's in the fire, John. Brownwell's going!" "Going going where?" asked the man at the desk, blankly. "Going to leave town. He's been in and given notice that he wants his money in gold day after to-morrow."
After the coal-heaving job was finished, Denison lay back and luxuriated on the £5, 17s. 6d. he had earned for his week's toil. Then one morning he saw an advertisement, in the North Queensland Trumpet-Call, for a proof-reader. He wrote his letter on bank paper and then went back to Sum Fat's to await developments.
The groan became a shriek, first of terror, then of hope, after that of anxiety, as Dan came dancing towards him like a Jack-o'-lantern. "Fat is she shriekin' at?" said Dan. "Oh! I'm so glad I'm so-o-ow-hoo!" Poor Peter seized Dan round the legs, for, being on his knees, he could not reach higher, and embraced him. "Fat's got the maister?" Peter could not tell. "Can she waalk?"
And if the fat's in the fire, and anything is found out, and people don't like it well, they must do the other thing." Thus she went on deck, and her courage was rewarded by the discovery of a chair on the starboard side of the deck-house, from which she could not possibly be seen by any persons on the Hard. She took this chair like a gift from heaven. The deck was busy enough. Mr.
'The fat's in the fire, was Mrs. Innes's reflection. 'Certainly, I'll tell you 'Don't shout, please! 'I mean simply that all Simla is talking about your affair with Miss Anderson. You may imagine that because you are fifteen years older than she is things won't be thought of, but they are, and I hear it's been spoken about at Viceregal Lodge.
Now let your men come I'm ready for them." Guerchard ran to the door and shouted again. "I think the fat's in the fire now," said Lupin, laughing. He sprang to the table, opened the cardboard box, whipped off the top layer of cotton-wool, and took out a shining bomb.
Has this secret journey anything to do with the affair which Pere Leger, the farmer at the Moulineaux, came to Paris the other day to settle?" "I don't know," replied the valet, "but the fat's in the fire. Last night I was sent to the stable to order the Daumont carriage to be ready to go to Presles at seven this morning. But when seven o'clock came, Monsieur le comte countermanded it.
Cardigan and Ogilvy are at Water and B streets this very instant with a gang of fifty men cutting in a jump-crossing of my line, curse them! They'll have it in by six o'clock to-morrow morning if something isn't done and once they get it in, the fat's in the fire. "Telephone the chief of police and order him to take his entire force down there, if necessary, and stop that work.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking