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Updated: October 22, 2025
And from then until four in the morning, at fifteen-minute intervals, the seeming of a bucket was hoisted on the windlass that creaked and ran around on itself and hoisted nothing. Then their visitors departed, and Smoke and Shorty went to bed. After daylight, Shorty examined the moccasin-marks. "Big Bill Saltman was one of them," he concluded. "Look at the size of it."
I want to pick water-lilies yellow ones. A mere halt she knew would not suffice for her needs; but the regular fifteen-minute stop, when the red-painted tool-chest was taken off the rear car and a new gang came aboard. The big man bent down to little Impudence 'Want to pick lilies, eh?
You say Bardwell and your partner went out on the Ohadi road to head the young 'un off?" "Yes. They had about a fifteen-minute start on us. Do you think ?" "We 'll wait here. They 're hefty and strong. They can handle him alone." But an hour passed without word from the two Searchers. Two more went by.
All this, however, could turn out to mean nothing because he didn't know how to crack a safe. He would have to report failure after being so close. "As I said," Entman prattled on happily, "when I was at Johns Hopkins I " The desk phone rang. Entman picked it up, answered it and then hung up. "Would I impose if I asked you for a fifteen-minute break?
He would leave Bill in the barn to shovel the manure into the litter-carrier a good fifteen-minute job; he would return in half an hour to find him sitting in the alleyway, staring down into his idle scoop. "God Almighty!" Martin would explode. "How many times must I tell you to do a thing?"
If such creative genius as theirs is unrecognized and ignored, what hope of recognition is there for one's own work?" The thought had frequently saddened me; but here at last they were Edwin and Angelina in the flesh! I took the gallant Sidney for a fifteen-minute stroll up and down the length of the Belmont Park Road. Poor Angelina! He came, as he expressed it, "like a bird."
"You've heard him speak scarcely a dozen words. I venture to say that in a fifteen-minute conversation he would commit more horrible crimes against the king's English than even that new stable-boy of yours. Really, Harriet, you seem very much interested in this person." "Why shouldn't I be?" asked Harriet. "He's becoming my little pet mystery. I wonder under what circumstances we see him next?"
"Thish-yer Smiley had a mare the boys called her the fifteen-minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because of course she was faster than that and he used to win money on that horse, for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption, or something of that kind.
The "country" was located on one of the numerous islands forming the outskirts of the city and could be reached by the father after he finished work by a fifteen-minute ride on one of the innumerable little steamboats running back and forth like so many busy shuttles across every sheet of water in the vicinity of Stockholm.
Confronting each is a huge tankard of foaming lager, and the one doubtless enjoying himself the most and making the greatest success of exciting the envy and admiration of those around him is a certain ponderous individual who sits from hour to hour in a half comatose condition, barely keeping a large porcelain pipe from going out, and at fifteen-minute intervals taking a telling pull at the lager.
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