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Let this unfortunate affair pass from your minds, and let me again urge upon you the claims of the Sunchild Evidence Society." The audience on hearing that they were to be told more about the Sunchild Evidence Society melted away even more rapidly than before, and the sermon fizzled out to an ignominious end quite unworthy of its occasion.

One thing Jack had managed to discover with that brief peep back of the friendly bunch of orange leaves there was a little heap of papers in the fireplace, also the precious book he yearned to possess yes, and he could even make out a smudge as though a match had been used to start a conflagration but owing to some puff of contrary air the blaze had fizzled and gone out an especially providential favor in their behalf Jack had told himself.

'The men don't put on dress clothes, if that's what you mean. As for the repast, for a long time, as a rule, the menu was salt junk and pumpkin. We've improved on that a little since the Chinese cook and the Chinese gardener came back from the goldfields there was another rush at Fig Tree Mount that fizzled out.

Altogether our little excursion fizzled out and I came back last night." "Did you see anything of the raid?" Geraldine inquired eagerly. "Rather more than I wanted," he answered grimly. "I was motoring along the road at the time, and I had to attend a perfect court martial next day, with your friend Thomson in the chair.

"You're squeamish, are you? No, I'm never taken that way myself. That is in great part why I came here. I hoped everyone thought there was going to be some sort of shindy. But I suppose it's the result of your clever little uncle's tactics it seems to have fizzled out. Very satisfactory for him no doubt, but rather rough luck on us." "Was there really any danger?" Olga asked. "Oh, rather!

They were indeed entering the less densely wooded region which formed the extreme northern reaches of that mountainous wilderness famed in song and story as the Black Forest. Even here, where it fizzled out on the eastern edge of Alsace, the world-renowned fragrance of its dark and stately fir trees was wafted to them out of the wild and solemn recesses they were approaching.

They cleared the pavements and galloped up the promenade. Again the cry echoed 'Down with war! and as answer came 'die Wacht am Rhein. But it was some considerable time before the struggle ceased to surge to and fro." Thus the great Socialist-International-Pacifist movement, with four and a quarter million German voters behind it, fizzled out on the pavements of Unter den Linden.

The smaller machines made a reasonable noise; their straps hummed over the drums, every now and then the brushes buzzed and fizzled, and the air churned steadily, whoo! whoo! whoo! between their poles. One was loose in its foundations and kept the shed vibrating.

Forgotten, in this moment, is senatorial courtesy and respect for the powers of the feudal system. "Say, boys," he cried, "Putnam County's voting, and there's be'n no nomination and ain't likely to be. Jim Scudder, the station-master at Wye, is here on credentials, and he says for sure the thing's fizzled out, and Tom Gaylord's left the hall!"

Forgotten, in this moment, is senatorial courtesy and respect for the powers of the feudal system. "Say, boys," he cried, "Putnam County's voting, and there's be'n no nomination and ain't likely to be. Jim Scudder, the station-master at Wye, is here on credentials, and he says for sure the thing's fizzled out, and Tom Gaylord's left the hall!"