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But now his mind was a mere firework of interjections squibs, bombs, and rockets of 'Oh! and 'Ah! and 'Now! and 'She'll listen! and 'She'll despise me! He was within a month of sixteen, and he was in receipt of sixpence a week as pocket-money, but the second fact was to be no more durable than the first. He could neither stay at sixteen nor at the sixpence.
A Firework Display Heralds the Arrival of "The Day" How the Boys Spent Their Last Few Hours in the Trenches Rats as Bedfellows I Make an Early Start And Get Through a Mine-shaft into "No Man's Land" The Great Event Draws Near Anxious Moments The Men Fix Bayonets And Wait the Word of Command to "Go Over the Top."
Well, without mincing matters, I must say we had as rough a road to travel any band of poor strolling Thespians ever struck." "Misfortune still in the lead?" "I should say so. Listen. We ran into the Gulf Stream of a red-hot political campaign, and I needn't tell you these torchlight processions, firework displays, and fife and drum corps knock the life out of the show business.
And they might be of great service to her, by giving a proper elevation and tone to her genius; while she might amuse them, and their guests, and be let off, in fact, as a firework for the nonce. The sisters felt they were the patronesses of the little obscure genius whom they longed for to illumine their household, before they knew her name.
Ere long the flames were chasing one another in mad riot over the structure; running across the long corridors and up and down the supporting columns of wood, until the huge edifice was a mass of firework, every part painted in glowing, living color, yet retaining its distinctive form. It was a grand and magnificent sight!
This equipage being finished, he, one dark night chosen for the purpose, put it on, and, following the commodore into a long passage, in which he was preceded by Perry with a light in his hand, kindled his firework with a match, and began to bellow like a bull.
When Dr Hellyer awoke to the knowledge of the fact that the Fifth of November fell this year on a Sunday, had he generously made allowance for the patriotic feelings of his pupils, and allowed them to have their usual annual firework demonstration on the Saturday prior, which happened to be a half-holiday, the matter might have been harmoniously arranged, and Tom and I been persuaded at the last moment to abandon our daring enterprise possibly, that is, though I doubt it much.
The surging crowd only seemed to be rather more stirred, and the same uproar rose from it as one may hear on a firework night, when some fine set-piece is set alight. One last wave of the hand, with a "Bonjour, mon peuple!" which the King spoke half in jest and half in earnest, and Charles X. departed. I was never to see him again.
'There is a certain jenny squaw about her, and that's why the savage likes her, George said a joke certainly not as brilliant as a firework. After which it seemed to me that the savage and the savages retired together.
Or again, Mr Wimpole may leave first, feeling that his last epigram is a thing to be flung behind him like a firework. And Sir Walter may remain some time to analyse Mr Wimpole's character. But they will both have to leave within reasonable time, for they will both have to get dressed and come back to dinner here tonight."
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