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"Granted," put in Waldron, "that my objection is futile, just what's your idea?" "This!" And Flint stabbed at him with his forefinger, while the other financier regarded him with a fishily amused eye. "Every human being in this world and there are 1,900,000,000 of them now! is breathing, on the average, 16 cubic feet of air every hour, or about 400 a day.
Ay! for here were three drowned people on the icy slabs of the Morgue, with half a hundred gazing wistfully at them, and their fixed eyes glaring fishily at the skylight, as if it were the surface of the river and they were at rest below.
"'Gad, you know a little of everything, don't you?" said Van Dyke, sitting up a little straighter in his chair and eyeing Barnes fishily. Collier's passive reply out of which Barnes gathered the words "couple" and "years."
If Priam had those moles on his neck, then he was the real Priam. If he had not, then he was a common cheat. The public had taken the matter into its own hands. The sturdy common sense of the public was being applied to the affair. On the whole it may be said that the sturdy common sense of the public was against Priam. For the majority, the entire story was fishily preposterous.
His hands were resting on top of it, and he was staring fixedly and fishily at Racey Dawson. There was no welcome in his face. Nor was there any unfriendliness. It was simply exceedingly expressionless. Racey draped himself against the bar. "Liquor," said he. Having absorbed a short one, he poured himself a second. "Have one with me," he nodded to the man. "All right."
"There there!" screamed Grace. "There's an alligator, surely. It's alive, too! Oh, dear! An alligator!" She pointed to something long and dark floating in the river something that seemed to be covered with scales and ridges something that suddenly turned up an ugly head, with bulging eyes, which looked fishily at the girls in the boat.
The town houses of old Stonefield, Craignish, Craignure, Asknish, and the other cadets of Clan Campbell, had such a strong and genteel look; the windows, all but a very few, had glass in every lozen, every shutter had a hole to let in the morning light, and each door had its little ford of stones running across the gutter that sped down the street, smelling fishily a bit, on its way to the shore.
He made no move, even to drag him from the pool in which he lay. Struve groaned and shuddered, twisted to his side, and at last sat up weakly. In his eyes there was now a great terror, while in place of his drunkenness was only fear and faintness abject fear of the great bulk that sat and smoked and stared at him so fishily. He felt uncertainly of his throat, and groaned again.
"True. The simple fruits of the earth. No. You needn't bring any, William." I went on with my breakfast, and Mr. Pumblechook continued to stand over me, staring fishily and breathing noisily, as he always did. "Little more than skin and bone!" mused Mr. Pumblechook, aloud.
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